$cordovaSocialSharing.canShareVia("instagram") not working in Android

cordova
1

So I have this

    $cordovaSocialSharing.canShareVia("instagram").then(function(result) {  
        console.log(result); console.log("good");
    }, function(err) {
        console.log(err); console.log("no good");
    });

On my iphone I have Instagram installed and I get “good”.

On my android device I’ve also installed Instagram, but I get “no good”. Also … err has the following contents

["com.android.mms", "com.samsung.android.app.memo", "com.google.android.talk", "com.google.android.apps.docs", "com.samsung.android.app.FileShareClient", "com.android.bluetooth", "com.android.email", "com.google.android.gm", "com.google.android.apps.docs", "com.facebook.katana", "com.facebook.orca"]

As you can see … no Instagram in the list, but I do have it installed on my device.

Some Ionic info :

Cordova CLI: 5.4.1
Gulp version:  CLI version 3.9.0
Gulp local:   Local version 3.9.0
Ionic CLI Version: 1.7.14
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.7.0
ios-deploy version: 1.8.4 
ios-sim version: 5.0.6 
OS: Mac OS X El Capitan
Node Version: v5.4.1
Xcode version: Xcode 7.2.1 Build version 7C1002

and the social sharing plugin

cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing 5.0.10 "SocialSharing"

Any help on this?

2

I’ve also tested this with the window.plugin notation.

3

the android version code must be some like this :

$cordovaSocialSharing.shareViaInstagram(message, image, function() {
console.log('share ok')}, function(errormsg){
alert("I'm sorry you should have instagram to share")})

i’ve tested in my android app

4

But this means it will try and send the message to IG … if not it fails right?

But I want to check before I can send … this way I can show an icon or not.

5

if you want to check the app installed or not, you can use cordovaAppAvaibility first and then you can show the icon.

6

wich ngcordova do you have? because

$cordovaSocialSharing.shareViaInstagram

does not exists

7

Well got it working like this

    var isIOS = ionic.Platform.isIOS();
    var isAndroid = ionic.Platform.isAndroid(); 


    if(isIOS) {
        $cordovaSocialSharing.canShareVia("instagram").then(function(result) {  
            $scope.canShareInstagram  = true; 
        }, function() {
            $scope.canShareInstagram  = false;
        });               
    } else {
       if(isAndroid) {
        $cordovaAppAvailability.check('com.instagram.android')
            .then(function() {
                $scope.canShareInstagram  = true;
            }, function () {
                $scope.canShareInstagram  = false;
            });            
       } 
    }