iOS sharing extension - anyone ever made one?

[Ben Rubinstein]

Hi David,

Yes, I did have this working on iOS.

... unfortunately that's all I've got to offer!

It's a couple of years since I worked on this project, and it was an internal 
app only - not distributed to the app store.

I'm actually currently disbarred from testing apps on iOS - my current 
profile/certificate/whatever expired last month and I had a couple of goes at 
the whole dance, but failed, and since it was only for a fun personal app I 
haven't had time to get back to it.

I can tell you it should work (or at least used to). My app appeared in the 
list of destinations for sharing, and IIRC I had it tuned to accept either 
text files or mp3 audio, and that worked as well.

Is your issue that the app doesn't launch at all; or doesn't appear as a 
sharing destination; or does both those things but doesn't respond when 
something is shared to it?

Ben



On 02/09/2020 15:59, David Bovill wrote:
> I’m still having no joy figuring our how to make a sharing extension for a 
> Livecode app. Has anyone ever done this?
> On 25 Jun 2020, 21:05 +0100, David Bovill <david.bovill at gmail.com>, wrote:
>> Having another go at creating an iOS Share extension in Livecode.
>>
>> Ben I had a go with the code snippets you supplied, but I’m not getting my 
>> app appearing in the list of apps available to share. I had a bit of a goose 
>> around and tried a bunch of options for the info.plist file without result - 
>> well in fact I’m getting the app launching with a black screen and then 
>> crashing if I use the following style recipe:
>>
>>     <key>NSExtension</key>
>>
>>      <dict>
>>
>>      <key>NSExtensionAttributes</key>
>>
>>      <dict>
>>
>>      <key>NSExtensionActivationRule</key>
>>
>>      <string>TRUEPREDICATE</string>
>>
>>      </dict>
>>
>>      <key>NSExtensionMainStoryboard</key>
>>
>>      <string>MainInterface</string>
>>
>>      <key>NSExtensionPointIdentifier</key>
>>
>>      <string>com.apple.share-services</string>
>>
>>      </dict>
>>
>>
>> This type of plist addition:
>>
>>     <key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key>
>>
>> <array>
>> <dict>
>> <key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
>> <string>Sound Garden</string>
>> <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
>> <string>Editor</string>
>> <key>LSItemContentTypes</key>
>> <array>
>> <string>public.plain-text</string>
>> </array>
>> <key>LSHandlerRank</key>
>> <string>Alternate</string>
>> </dict>
>> <dict>
>> <key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
>> <string>Audio</string>
>> <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
>> <string>Editor</string>
>> <key>LSItemContentTypes</key>
>> <array>
>> <string>public.audio</string>
>> </array>
>> <key>LSHandlerRank</key>
>> <string>Alternate</string>
>> </dict>
>> </array>
>>
>> Does not crash the app - but appears to do nothing? The following lesson 
>> appears related - 
>> http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4069/l/1069016-associating-a-file-type-file-extension-with-an-lc-ios-app and 
>> I note there are / were issues with iPhone X and this lesson.
>>
>> My basic question is how do I get an iOS app to work with as an iOS sharing 
>> extension such that in any app (say a web browser) where I select the share 
>> icon I can use my Livecode app as something that handles the share?
>> On 20 Nov 2018, 18:40 +0000, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode 
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
>>> You need to do two things:
>>>
>>> - add code in your app to handle the "urlWakeUp" message, see the dictionary
>>> entry and
>>> http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4069/l/58672-using-custom-url-schemes
>>>
>>> - add entries in the app's plist to tell the operating system what file types
>>> your app can handle, see
>>> https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/General/Reference/InfoPlistKeyReference/Articles/CoreFoundationKeys.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001431-101685
>>>
>>> The latter is the bit you need to do for iOS - not sure what the Android
>>> equivalent is.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19/11/2018 20:35, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote:
>>>> How could I create the ability for Livecode mobile apps - say iOS but
>>>> ideally also on Android) to add the ability for other apps to share to them?
>>>>
>>>> -
>>>> https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/Share.html
>>>>
>>>> I can't find any thread here or in the forums?
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