Cannot share images from within Diaspora to Telegram

[vanitasvitae]

General information

• Device: eg Nexus 5
• Android Version: eg Android 6.0.1 CopperheadOS
• Pod: doesn't matter
• App source: F-Droid
• App version: HEAD

I have:

• searched open and closed issues for duplicates
• read https://github.com/Diaspora-for-Android/diaspora-android/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Steps to reproduce

1. Long press on image and select "Share image"
2. select Telegram contact

Expected result

What is the expected output?
Image appears in selected Telegram chat

What do you see instead?
Nothing happens

Debug output

08-02 21:32:11.421 12800-12800/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
                                                   Process: org.telegram.messenger, PID: 12800
                                                   java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke interface method 'int java.lang.CharSequence.length()' on a null object reference
                                                       at java.util.regex.Matcher.reset(Matcher.java:177)
                                                       at java.util.regex.Matcher.<init>(Matcher.java:90)
                                                       at java.util.regex.Pattern.matcher(Pattern.java:297)
                                                       at org.telegram.ui.LaunchActivity.handleIntent(LaunchActivity.java:646)
                                                       at org.telegram.ui.LaunchActivity.onNewIntent(LaunchActivity.java:1366)
                                                       at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnNewIntent(Instrumentation.java:1212)
                                                       at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnNewIntent(Instrumentation.java:1224)
                                                       at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverNewIntents(ActivityThread.java:2545)
                                                       at android.app.ActivityThread.performNewIntents(ActivityThread.java:2557)
                                                       at android.app.ActivityThread.handleNewIntent(ActivityThread.java:2566)
                                                       at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap12(ActivityThread.java)
                                                       at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1416)
                                                       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
                                                       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
                                                       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417)
                                                       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
                                                       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
                                                       at com.android.internal.os.ExecInit.main(ExecInit.java:56)
                                                       at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.nativeFinishInit(Native Method)
                                                       at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.main(RuntimeInit.java:251)
08-02 21:32:11.422 12800-12800/? E/AndroidRuntime: Error reporting crash
                                                   java.lang.RuntimeException: Bad file descriptor
                                                       at android.os.BinderProxy.transactNative(Native Method)
                                                       at android.os.BinderProxy.transact(Binder.java:503)
                                                       at android.app.ActivityManagerProxy.handleApplicationCrash(ActivityManagerNative.java:4427)
                                                       at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$UncaughtHandler.uncaughtException(RuntimeInit.java:90)
                                                       at java.lang.ThreadGroup.uncaughtException(ThreadGroup.java:693)
                                                       at java.lang.ThreadGroup.uncaughtException(ThreadGroup.java:690)

This might be a bug on Telegrams side (Telegram-FOSS 3.10.1, FDroid), sharing to Conversations works as intended.

[vanitasvitae]

Edit: May be an upstream issue: Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS#109

Edit: Pretty sure, its just an upstream bug.