Why Start Android Share Intent With Chooser?

Why use Intent.createChooser?

You can specify chooser title
Will always show chooser dialog even when a default app is selected
If no app is available to handle the intent, if will show No application can perform this action message (instead of ActivityNotFoundException exception).

ShareCompat.IntentBuilder        .from(activity)        .setType("text/plain")        .setChooserTitle("Share URL")        .setText(url)        .startChooser()

or convert intent into chooser

val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_EDIT)intent.setDataAndType(uri, "image/*")intent.flags = Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSIONstartActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Edit Image"))

val shareIntent = ShareCompat.IntentBuilder        .from(activity)        .setType("text/plain")        .setChooserTitle("Share URL")        .setText(url)        .intentif (shareIntent.resolveActivity(activity.packageManager) != null) {    activity.startActivity(shareIntent)}

References:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3804233/what-is-the-purpose-of-using-intent-createchooser-in-startactivity-while-sen/

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