quick_share_row

A ready-made row of per-channel share icons — WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook, Email, and the system share sheet — plus a long-press popup variant, so you don't have to hand-wire url_launcher deep links every time a screen needs a share UI.

Extracted and generalized from a production app's review and booking screens: the per-channel URL schemes (wa.me, sms:, Facebook's sharer.php, mailto:) and the little colored, tooltip-labeled icon button, without anything specific to that original app baked in.

  

Features

• ShareButtonsRow — an inline row of channel buttons.
• showShareMenu — the same row in a floating popup anchored at a tap/long-press position (a context-menu-style share UI).
• ShareUtils — the underlying per-channel methods, callable directly if you want to trigger one specific channel from your own custom UI.
• Fully configurable: pick which channels to show and in what order, override any channel's icon/color/label, or swap the icon for your own widget (a brand SVG, for example) with no extra dependency required.
• No forced UI-feedback dependency — a channel that fails to launch calls an optional onError callback instead of showing a toast/snackbar for you.

Install

dependencies:
  quick_share_row: ^0.1.0

Usage

Inline row

import 'package:quick_share_row/quick_share_row.dart';

ShareButtonsRow(
  message: 'Check out this listing!\n\nhttps://example.com/item/42',
  url: 'https://example.com/item/42', // used for Facebook specifically — see note below
  subject: 'A listing you might like', // used for Email + system share
)

Long-press popup

GestureDetector(
  onLongPressStart: (details) => showShareMenu(
    context,
    details.globalPosition,
    message: 'Check out this listing!\n\nhttps://example.com/item/42',
    url: 'https://example.com/item/42',
  ),
  child: YourListItem(),
)

Picking channels / one channel directly

// Only WhatsApp and the system sheet:
ShareButtonsRow(
  message: message,
  channels: [ShareChannel.whatsapp, ShareChannel.system],
)

// Trigger one channel yourself, e.g. from a menu item you already have:
ShareUtils.toWhatsApp(message, onError: (e) => print('Failed: $e'));

Customizing a channel

ShareButtonsRow(
  message: message,
  channels: [
    ShareChannel.whatsapp.copyWith(color: Colors.teal),
    ShareChannel.system,
  ],
)

Why url is separate from message

Every channel except Facebook accepts free text, so message (typically your text plus the link, already concatenated) is what WhatsApp, SMS, Email, and the system share sheet all use. Facebook's web share dialog only ever accepts a bare URL — it has no field for custom text — so pass just the link via url if you're including Facebook in your channel list. If you omit url, it falls back to message, which is rarely what you actually want once message has more than a link in it.

A note on dependency version constraints

This package's pubspec.yaml was written without network access to pub.dev, so the share_plus/url_launcher/flutter_lints version ranges are deliberately wide rather than pinned to "current." Run flutter pub get and then flutter pub outdated before publishing, and tighten the constraints to whatever actually resolves.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.