Mobile Native Share
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This module adds a native share button to your Drupal content, allowing users to easily share it using their device's native sharing options. It uses modern web technology when available and provides fallbacks for older browsers.
Mobile Native Share adds a native share button to Drupal entities, leveraging the Web Share API with graceful fallbacks for unsupported browsers.
Features
- Provides a configurable share button for multiple entity types.
- Works out of the box with nodes, taxonomy terms, and comments.
- Extendable to additional entity types (e.g. paragraphs or custom) via
hook_mobile_native_share_entity_types_alter. - Graceful fallback logic - uses Web Share API when available, falls back to Clipboard API or prompt dialog otherwise
- Configurable title and description per bundle of entity.
- Global configuration for icon and style.
- Token support for dynamic values in titles and descriptions.
- Theme suggestions for entity type and bundle, allowing easy template overrides.
Developer API
The module provides a dedicated, heavily optimized rendering service (mobile_native_share.renderer). Developers can easily inject this service via Dependency Injection or call it directly via the \Drupal wrapper to generate the share button programmatically for custom blocks, controllers, or bespoke routes:
// 1. Render using a specific entity (node, term, etc.)
$share_button = \Drupal::service('mobile_native_share.renderer')->render($entity);
// 2. Or render without an entity (will automatically fallback to the current page title and URL)
$share_button = \Drupal::service('mobile_native_share.renderer')->render();
Configuration
- Navigate to Configuration → Search and metadata → Mobile Native Share or go directly to
/admin/config/search/mobile-native-share. - Enable the share button for the required entity types and bundles.
- Configure display options:Title and Description per entity/bundle (supports tokens), global Icon and Style settings.
- Adjust display modes to control where the share button appears.
Use cases
- Add a native share button to articles, taxonomy pages, or comment threads.
- Extend sharing to custom entities like paragraphs or bespoke content types.
- Ensure consistent UX across modern and legacy browsers.