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Android 6 Essentials

You're reading from   Android 6 Essentials Design, build, and create your own applications using the full range of features available in Android 6

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884412
Length 122 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yossi Elkrief Yossi Elkrief
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Direct Share


One of the best things about technology, in my humble opinion, is that it gives users great options to interact and benefit from them. Direct Share can be treated as a great addition to the list of merits, with great, fluid user experience all around the app world. So, what is Direct Share? Well, almost every app today uses some sort of information/data exchange with other applications on the user's device or with the outside world via the sharing mechanism. The sharing mechanism exposes a piece of information from one application to another. Usually, a user will interact with a few close companions (family, close friends, or colleagues), and this is where Direct Share comes to your aid.

Direct Share is about a set of APIs required to make sharing intuitive and quick for users. You define Direct Share targets that launch a specific activity in your app. These targets are shown in the Share menu, allowing faster sharing and fluid data flow.

With Direct Share, users can share content...

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