Share a link from Android App using facebook-android-sdk with local image

Question

My android application using facebook-android-sdk:4.14.0 to share a link. I used ShareLinkContent to create share content and call setImageUrl() to specify image. I want to use image from my app (not from a internet url link) to show on share post. I already tried as below code but it not work:

if (ShareDialog.canShow(ShareLinkContent.class)) {
    ShareLinkContent linkContent = new ShareLinkContent.Builder()
            .setContentTitle("...")
            .setContentDescription("...")
            .setContentUrl(Uri.parse("https://...))
            .setImageUrl(Uri.parse("file:///android_asset/ic_boxworldpro.png"))
            .build();

    shareDialog.show(linkContent);
} else {
    Toast.makeText(MainMenuActivity.this, "Unable to Share...Try again.",
            Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

I also tried with image from drawable but the phenomenon was same

.setImageUrl(Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.drawable.ic_boxworldpro))

Anyone can help me !!

Answer 1

According to the document here

setImageUrl should use a URL, not a uniformed Uri in Android platform.

a imageURL, the URL of thumbnail image that will appear on the post

Also the java docs of the library has clearly say A network URL of image

public ShareLinkContent.Builder setImageUrl(@android.support.annotation.Nullable android.net.Uri imageUrl)
Set the URL of a picture to attach to this content.
Parameters:
    imageUrl - The network URL of an image.
Returns:
    The builder.