Kotlin Programming Cookbook

How it works…

If you look at the implementation, you will find that Anko has provided just a syntactic sugar that greatly reduces your lines of code to achieve a similar thing:

fun Context.share(text: String, subject: String = ""): Boolean {    try {        val intent = Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND)        intent.type = "text/plain"        intent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject)        intent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, text)        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, null))        return true    } catch (e: ActivityNotFoundException) {        e.printStackTrace()        return false    }}

As you can see, the library has taken care of all the issues that might crop up and just provided a helper function to make things faster and more fun.