How to send message from Android app through Viber message

Question

I want to write small Android app to send the message through Viber to people whom are listed in my contact list. But I could not find any sample code to do this task. If you know how to do this task.

Please teach me.

Vonbk

Solution

If viber application is installed in your device, You can call an intent to share the text.

boolean found = false;
Intent share = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        share.setType("text/plain");

        // gets the list of intents that can be loaded.
        List<ResolveInfo> resInfo = context.getPackageManager()
                .queryIntentActivities(share, 0);
        if (!resInfo.isEmpty()) {
            for (ResolveInfo info : resInfo) {
                if (info.activityInfo.packageName.toLowerCase(
                        Locale.getDefault()).contains("com.viber.voip")
                        || info.activityInfo.name.toLowerCase(
                                Locale.getDefault()).contains("com.viber.voip")) {
                    share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Your text to share");
                    share.setPackage(info.activityInfo.packageName);
                    found = true;
                    context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, "Select"));
                    break;
                }
            }
            if (!found) {

                displayToast(context, "Install viber android application");
                Uri marketUri = Uri.parse("market://details?id="
                        + "com.viber.voip");
                Intent marketIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, marketUri);
                context.startActivity(marketIntent);
            }

        }

I am not sure it will work. But it will worth a shot.

You can also share with the plain intent which asks the user to select and share :

         Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);    
         sharingIntent.setType("text/html"); 
         sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Html.fromHtml("<p>This is the text that will be shared.</p>")); 
        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent,"Share using"));

Comments

[vonbk]

Hi Rethinavel Velu, How can I specify the outgoing phone number. I added : share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_PHONE_NUMBER,"xxxxxx"); But it does not work well.

[Rethinavel]

What do you mean by specifying outgoing number..? You want to share the phone number to viber or what?

[vonbk]

I meant that I want to send message ""Your text to share" to my friend whom has phone number is "xxxxxxx".

[Rethinavel]

Viber will ask you to do so, I believe. I think you will send directly. I am not sure about that. Let me check and revert you back

[vonbk]

Yes, Viber asked me to do so as you said. But it is not my expectation. I want to Viber send message to "xxxx" number without asking me to select phone number. On other hand, I want Viber has same function as following SMS code: smsManager.sendMultipartTextMessage("xxxxxx", null, messageArray, null,null);

[Rethinavel]

Oh i see. I don't know how to implicitly send a number.

[vonbk]

Thank you so much for your effort constantly.

[mahdi]

@vonbk did you find any way to send number to viber ?