Sharing Extensions in IOS Apps [closed] - iphone

Question

Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers.
We don’t allow questions seeking recommendations for books, tools, software libraries, and more. You can edit the question so it can be answered with facts and citations.
Closed 7 years ago.
Improve this question
I am new to the overall iOS Programming - Swift. I am wondering that if I create a project in xCode6 and then I would like to share an image that I took from my project for example to evernote, google drive, messages, email, facebook, twitter,so on and so on.
So, how would I do that? Is it something, I need to enable from xcode6 for each sharing extension or I need to implement swift code to enable these sharing extensions?
What kind of configurations I might needs to change to get sharing extensions (mentioned above) enabled? Or what kind of code changes in a project are possible? Are there any examples or samples out there with the instructions that I can look into and see how they implement into xcode6.
I never work with the sharing extensions before, so any knowledge that can be shared will be a great resource for me. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Use the Xcode Share Template.
There is a lot of tutorials online to know how to make share extensions using Swift, here are some of them and some good articles about extensions you should know too :
Building a Simple Share Extension in iOS 8 App
Xcode 6 Tutorial: iOS 8 Simple Share Extension in Swift
App Extension Programming Guide
Share extensions in iOS 8: Explained
Even you could do it in code too in the following way:
#IBAction func shareSheet(sender: AnyObject){
let firstActivityItem = "Hey, check out this mediocre site that sometimes posts about Swift!"
let secondActivityItem : NSURL = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: "http://www.dvdowns.com/")!
let activityViewController : UIActivityViewController = UIActivityViewController(
activityItems: [firstActivityItem, secondActivityItem], applicationActivities: nil)
activityViewController.excludedActivityTypes = [
UIActivityTypePostToWeibo,
UIActivityTypePrint,
UIActivityTypeAssignToContact,
UIActivityTypeSaveToCameraRoll,
UIActivityTypeAddToReadingList,
UIActivityTypePostToFlickr,
UIActivityTypePostToVimeo,
UIActivityTypePostToTencentWeibo
]
self.presentViewController(activityViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
The above code only works for iPhones because for iPad you need to specify the sourceView and show it as a popover in the following way:
activityViewController.popoverPresentationController?.sourceView = (sender as! UIButton)
The above line must be put in just after you init the activityViewController and it should be work.
I hope this help you.