How can I share text - with a group - from my app - on whatsapp?
Whatsapp's current iPhone API (see here: http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/iphone/23559013)
Enables to share text with a specific contact - Option #1 in the above link, 'custom URL scheme'
And enables to share image, video and audio documents with contacts and groups - Option #2 in the above link, 'iOS Document Interaction API'
How do I combine the two? How do I send simple text to a group?
This is the same issue as the following question, but for iPhone:
How to share text to WhatsApp from my app?
Simply you can't, using either UIDocumentInteractionController or the WhatsAapp custom url scheme.
I Think there is no relation between a Whatsapp group and an ABGroup.
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Our team is building an iOS app from which a user can share media content through social apps present on his iPhone. While testing how other apps behave, I observed that not all apps show all the available sharing options.
Specifically, I don't see the following apps in the sharing options:
Kik, WeChat, Reddit, Youtube, GroupMe, Band.
I have all these apps on my device. So expected all these apps to be shown for sharing. Should the base app explicitly handle all the sharing options?
No. Only following ActivityTypes are supported by iOS. Of course you can exclude some of these activities if you want to.
UIActivityTypePostToFacebook
UIActivityTypePostToTwitter
UIActivityTypePostToWeibo
UIActivityTypeMessage
UIActivityTypeMail
UIActivityTypePrint
UIActivityTypeCopyToPasteboard
UIActivityTypeAssignToContact
UIActivityTypeSaveToCameraRoll
UIActivityTypeAddToReadingList
UIActivityTypePostToFlickr
UIActivityTypePostToVimeo
UIActivityTypePostToTencentWeibo
UIActivityTypeAirDrop
For the app to appear in the share sheet:
The app needs to implement a sharing extension (not all do)
The sharing extension must support the type of data that is being shared (text, url, image, video...).
The user must have selected that sharing extension (by tapping on the "More" button at the end of the list)
I'm using a UIActivityViewController to enable the user to share photos and videos created with my app. I attached two UIActivityItemProviders to it: one for the media and one for a default text to use ("Created with...").
This works well for all share extensions I tested—except for WhatsApp. WhatsApp only shows the text in the message dialog—no photo or video. When I leave the text blank, however, it will show the media file.
Is there any way I can share a photo or video with a default text/caption via WhatsApp?
I'm facing the same challenge. I implemented my own extension using https://github.com/sascha/SSCWhatsAppActivity. The downside is that you'll get two WhatsApp entries when sharing. WhatsApp's own one, and the custom one. I tried excluding WhatsApp's own extension using UIActivityViewController.excludedActivityTypes with the activityType net.whatsapp.WhatsApp.ShareExtension but since iOS 8.1 this is not possible anymore (on purpose or a bug). More on that here: http://johnszumski.com/blog/excluding-third-party-apps-from-ios-8-share-sheet
My conclusion, there is no way to provide both text + media to WhatApp own sharing extension. I decided to keep my custom WhatsApp sharing extension and name it "WhatsApp (+Image)" so the user can distinguish the two.
I am using the UIDocumentInteractionController for sharing the files between apps. It works fine. But whenever I am opening the sheet , that sheet contains myapp + airdrop option.
Is there any way to hide the Airdrop option in the UIDocumentInteractionController sheet ?
THanks.
Not in a way that is Apple Approved. Anything that hides/removes that button is going to be using private APIs or manipulating private views, both activities that will get your app rejected.
I'm trying to show apps from UIDocumentInteractionControllerDelegate , default apple apps like; sms, email or UIPasteBoard (Facebook and Twitter is optional) . Just like the similar of Dropbox app :
How can I handle this kind of situation? I've done already open apps from their UTI's, open just email or just sms but I don't how to show all of them in one sheet.
Thanx
I believe you're looking at an UIActivityController instead of a UIDocumentInteractionController, which I believe Apple is trying to phase out.
Check out the docs here https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UIActivityViewController_Class/Reference/Reference.html
You should try QLPreviewController. This will give you desired result.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/Documentation/NetworkingInternet/Reference/QLPreviewController_Class/Reference/Reference.html
I'm using the UIActivityViewController to share an image and url from within my app.
I'm having trouble formatting the facebook post. I attach an image using a subclassed UIActivityItemProvider and provide the text for the post in the same way.
I want to add a url, but it needs my apps custom url scheme in front of it like this
myurl://image?url=http://imageurl.com
The problem is, when this is posted, only the last half of the url is clickable (from http:// onwards). Which means it doesn't open my app with the url.
Is there another way to do this?
I know I can create an app on Facebook, but how can I tie the two together using the UIActivityViewController?
Thanks
You have 2 options :
Create a simple server-side web service that will redirect from http://yourserver.com/linkToApp/image to myurl://image .
It could even show a different page/preview if the app is not installed/if you're not on an ios device.
Create a facebook app and use "Deep linking" (it will basically do the same for you..)