Sharing Screenshot with SocialSharing not working

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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Hi all,

Having a strange issue where the I am unable to share a screenshot using the cordova plugin SocialSharing.

I am wondering has anyone else had a similar issue. I am of course testing this on my physical device.

When I click share and select WhatsApp, the fails and says ‘sharing failed’

Code below:

 this.screenshot.URI(80).then((res) => {
            SocialSharing.share('test message', 'test', res.URI, null).then(null, (err) => {
                let alert = this._alertCtrl.create({
                    title: 'Ooops!',
                    subTitle: err,
                    buttons: ['OK']
                })
            });
        }, (err) => {
            let alert = this._alertCtrl.create({
                title: 'Ooops!',
                subTitle: err,
                buttons: ['OK']
            });
            console.log(err);
        });

Any help greatly appreciated.

2

Could you please provide links to the plugins (and Ionic native wrappers if you use those) you are using?

3

The plugins I am using are:
cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing
Ionic Screenshot

I am unsure what the problem is. Social Sharing works as expected when sharing simple text, but not with an image.

4

How exactly does it say “sharing failed”? I don’t see this error message in your code.
The cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing README has an error message like that, but also outputs some further information. Did you try that?

5

Yes the error message that is being displayed is coming from the plugin. I added an error callback handler to output the error message but it didn’t contain any additional information so not much help there.

I don’t think the error is related to the SocialSharing plugin. I feel its related to the Screenshot plugin. I will debug further and test using a sample image stored on my phone rather than the screenshot. At least that will rule out the SocialSharing plugin. It could be something related to sharing a image on WhatsApp.

I appreciate the help Sujan.

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6

Any luck getting the screenshot to work? I’m essentially using the same code as you.

7

any updates for this problem :frowning: