Post to social media using voice recognition?

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I am building an application that uses voice recognition to perform all of its tasks. I want to extend the application to being able to post to social media with a voice command. I am not sure how to do this. I have only done sharing to social media using chooserIntent. In my attempt I use an intent and Action.SEND for sharing custom messages. I use a helper method to help me set things up:

private Intent getShareIntent(String type, String subject, String 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 = this.getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(share, 0);
        System.out.println("resinfo: " + resInfo);
        if (!resInfo.isEmpty()){
            for (ResolveInfo info : resInfo) {
                if (info.activityInfo.packageName.toLowerCase().contains(type) || 
                        info.activityInfo.name.toLowerCase().contains(type) ) {
                    share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,  subject);
                    share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,     text);
                    share.setPackage(info.activityInfo.packageName);
                    found = true;
                    break;
                }
            }
            if (!found)
                return null;
            return share;
        }
        return null;
    }

Then I want to do the sharing action in another method

private Intent shareIntent() {
        List<Intent> targetedShareIntents = new ArrayList<Intent>();
        Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
        shareIntent.setType("text/plain");

        String shareMsg = "Share message example";

        String emailMsg = "Email message email";

        PackageManager pm = getPackageManager();
        List<ResolveInfo> activityList = pm.queryIntentActivities(shareIntent, 0);
        for (final ResolveInfo app : activityList) {
            String packageName = app.activityInfo.packageName;
            Intent targetedShareIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
            targetedShareIntent.setType("text/plain");
            targetedShareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, 
                    "Name of Application");

        if (TextUtils.equals(packageName, "com.google.android.gm")) {
            targetedShareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, 
                    new String[] {"email1@gmail.com", "email2@gmail.com"});
            targetedShareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, 
                    emailMsg);
        } else if (TextUtils.equals(packageName, "com.android.email")) {
            targetedShareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, 
                    new String[] {"email1@gmail.com", "email2@gmail.com"});
            targetedShareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, 
                    emailMsg);
        } 

            targetedShareIntent.setPackage(packageName);
            targetedShareIntents.add(targetedShareIntent);
        }

        Intent facebookIntent = getShareIntent("facebook", "Name of App", shareMsg);
        if(facebookIntent != null)
            targetedShareIntents.add(facebookIntent);

        Intent twitterIntent = getShareIntent("twitter", "Name of App", shareMsg);
        if(twitterIntent != null)
            targetedShareIntents.add(twitterIntent);

//here is where I'd like to somehow post to FB or Twitter (or even email me for feedback) automatically.

    }

If I initialized a chooserIntent, this code would work fine. Something like this,

Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(targetedShareIntents.remove(0), 
        "Share via");
chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, 
        targetedShareIntents.toArray(new Parcelable[]{}));
startActivity(chooserIntent);
return shareIntent;

But how do I bypass the chooser and make my own choice to post based on voice command?

asked 35 secs ago

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