Introduction to webshare API (navigator.share)

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navigator.share is a JavaScript API providing a sharing interface similar to native apps

webshare API is supported on most updated mobile browsers Including Google chrome for Android

Sharing is done by passing an Object with parameters "url", "text" or "title" to navigator.share function.

For a webshare request to succeed you must supply at lest one of the parameters

navigator.share returns a Promise upon being called "upon

navigator.share({
    "url": document.location,
    "text": "I'm an example",
    "title": document.title
})
.then(resp => console.info("Successfully shared"))
.catch(errors => console.error(errors))

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