Share app posts to social media sites

[MillerAdulu]

Design Ref:

• https://xd.adobe.com/view/dd5d0245-b92b-4678-9d4a-48b3a6f48191-880e/screen/f5f3abf2-9384-460a-bac7-544c49648c0c/specs/
• https://xd.adobe.com/view/dd5d0245-b92b-4678-9d4a-48b3a6f48191-880e/screen/09ac0874-4933-4982-9e2e-b5d2c82d6c5f/specs/

A user should be allowed to share the content from the feed to social media sites.

Initial Approach

• Add share_plus (https://pub.dev/packages/share_plus)
• Ensure the content makes it over to the plugin for posting on the socials

Edit
Looks like we may need appinio_social_share (https://pub.dev/packages/appinio_social_share) to really achieve the social media effect

[DanroyMwangi]

Hey, has this issue been resolved?

[MillerAdulu]

@DanroyMwangi,

This is partially resolved. Currently, you can do a share using the normal interface on the screen. What's now left is to add this section of the design linked to the issue.

As such, we need to implement this part

If you would like to take this up, I can assign it to you.

[DanroyMwangi]

Could you please provide more details on the social media effect mentioned in the thread? Additionally, is the decision to use appinio_social_share finalized? I have an alternative suggestion: the url_launcher package (https://pub.dev/packages/url_launcher).

[MillerAdulu]

@DanroyMwangi,

The suggested approach one would take is:

• We have the wolt_modal_sheet as part of the code, so in lib/features/feed/ui/feed_screen.dart, you would adjust the code to launch the modal sheet (Sample of that in lib/common/widgets/app_bar/app_bar.dart:74
• You would then construct the UI on the modal that opens to showcase the buttons
• Then for each social media entry, you can use appinio_social_share (We have lib/features/feed/cubit/share_feed_post_cubit.dart that shows how to go about the sharing process that involves downloading the image if a post has one.

[MillerAdulu]

Could you please provide more details on the social media effect mentioned in the thread? Additionally, is the decision to use appinio_social_share finalized? I have an alternative suggestion: the url_launcher package (https://pub.dev/packages/url_launcher).

This might prove challenging because url_launcher would launch the social media platform only and there's no way to share the file to a social media platform. So the post on the feed, should be shareable as a post that a person can post as themselves on their social media profile.

[MillerAdulu]

As an example of this, try and share an image from your WhatsApp DM to something like Twitter and Facebook. We should be able to achieve a similar effect.

[MillerAdulu]

If you can achieve the same effect with URL Launcher, I would be open to seeing your approach then we can finalise at the PR review. After all, there should be no qualms if it works.

[DanroyMwangi]

Thank you for the clear explanation. I’ll address the issue and submit a PR shortly. Could you please assign it to me?

[MillerAdulu]

@DanroyMwangi,

Kindly note the linked issue #88