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by Navarr 4665 days ago
Standard way to hook into the Facebook app is a "Share Intent" which can be picked up by any other social network application; such as Google+, my text messaging app, Google Hangouts, and so many others. Even allowing "copy to clipboard" and "Pin" and whatever else. Almost every Android app creates a Share Intent listener to pull in data.

If there's a document viewer, it'll listen in for the file types it supports when you try to open a file (I think its a VIEW intent). It's all very impressive and very, very useful.
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alayne 4665 days ago
Unless they've changed it, you'll have to use the FaceBook SDK to do anything more than post a URL. FB's intent support is bad.
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rcoh 4665 days ago
Ah, yeah. I was talking about iOS in particular. Android intents are pretty sweet -- a couple the missing bits to make them great in my mind are -- App discovery: tell me about apps that can use my content if I don't have any? -- Action curation: What do users think are the best app for this action?
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