Sharing Via Facebook

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Go to a story page
2. Click share via facebook
3. Follow up on your FB page

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
FB has a standard way of handling URLs. All of our social media uses the n.pr 
shortener. If it would at least output a reasonable link, that would be an 
improvement.

This is the format it posts currenly: 
http://stability%20fears%20raised%20in%20kyrgyzstan%20as%20unrest%20grows:20//ww
w.npr.org/127850222

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by jpenn...@gmail.com on 15 Jun 2010 at 8:19

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Ouch. Chances are that's happening to all shared URLs, too. I'll take a look 
this week.

Original comment by sombradesoledad on 15 Jun 2010 at 8:54

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Would it be possible to use the FB app instead of the m.facebook.com utility 
for the share function? This appears to work with Twitter correctly.

Original comment by jpenn...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2010 at 7:08

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Original comment by jpenn...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2010 at 7:08

• Changed state: Accepted

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In 1.3.2 this is using the "SHARE" intent chooser which lets me choose whether 
to share via Bluetooth, Email, Facebook, Gmail, Messaging, Twitter,...) This 
chooser is built into Android and pulls up whatever apps on the device have 
registered a listener for the SHARE intent. So we have no control over how the 
Facebook app decides to handle that.

Original comment by jeremy.w...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2010 at 7:17

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I think this is a bug in the Facebook intent handling. It still seems broken.

We are using the following code:

Intent shareIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, story.getTitle());
        shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, String.format(
            "%s: http://www.npr.org/%s", story.getTitle(), story.getId()));
        shareIntent.setType("text/plain");

Facebook is redirecting to their mobile UI. It has nothing to do with us, and I 
think we're using the API correctly here.

Here's a further explanation of the issue, and their workaround: 
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/731d7891c
116a5d5

I would prefer not to do that, since it seems brittle. Facebook should just fix 
their app.

Original comment by mfreder...@google.com on 29 Sep 2010 at 7:26

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Ah ha!  Well caught, friends.  That seems kinda pathetic, right? Last time I 
heard, Facebook had a few people working for them...

Original comment by jpenn...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2010 at 8:43

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They've done 9 updates in the last year (since the issue was reported on 
android-developers. Who knows if it's in their own discussion forum as they 
don't have search options there. (I suppose I could post it in the bugs thread 
or in a new one.)

I hate to add more code (that could introduce bugs) but if others complain of 
this, we may want to consider the workaround provided, just so that we can 
improve the customer experience.

Original comment by jeremy.w...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2010 at 9:07