I am building an iOS app, using storyboard. I have created a page where the user can create a page that will then be then published on DropBox and shared between all app users. this page lets you add photos, videos (not yet), and textviews (with scrolling enabled). Until know when the user presses the upload button, a screenshot is taken and uploaded, then views from a table view. but obviously it is just an image, so you can't scroll the textfields to see all the content and if I wanted to add the video support it would not be able to play it. I tried doing research on the internet, but I am a bit confused. Do I have to save all the components (UITextField...) separately, and place them in the same DropBox folder, and then put them all back together? What do you suggest? Is there a way?
Of course you will have to save the data separately...how else would your program know how to create the view? I recommend JSON or XML. Don't ask about how to structure it, that is a different question and one you should think about yourself.
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I basically want the ability to check first within two specific dates if a user has taken any pictures on his phone. If so, if he clicks a button in my app the photo viewer (ideally exactly the same as used in the Photos app) should be opened and only these pictures/videos should be displayed. Then the user can look at them, share them, basically also the exact same functionality as the Photos app offers. But how can I do that? So far it seems I would have to code this completely from scratch, since I don't want the user to "pick" any picture but just look at them, share them etc. Or is there any SDK for this?
Currently it is cumbersome for the user to repeatedly scroll and take a screenshot if they want to capture more than what can fit on the screen at a time.
I would like to implement functionality such that at the request of a user (e.g. via tapping a special button on a custom keyboard), screenshots of the entire scrollable area of the currently opened app are automatically taken and stitched together.
Is this possible? And if so, how?
To clarify, the application containing the scrollable area is a third party application over which I have no control, e.g. iMessage or Facebook.
Edit: I am aware of answers like this one and this one that are about taking screenshots within an app that I control. As far as I can tell, these are not applicable in my situation. Please correct me if I am wrong about this.
This is not possible. Each app is contained in a protected sandbox that no other apps have access to.
You could make a custom keyboard, but you still wouldn't have access to any of the views in the app that you don't control.
In short I am trying to build some typical browser functionalities in a Swift iOS app with WKWebViews (WebKit). I already have a functioning browser based on a WKWebView, which already has a menu bar with a URL input, navigation buttons, a share button, page title etc.
What I am struggling with is creating tabs for the browser. At first this seemed trivial as surely WKWebViews would support this in some way. Well, as far as I can tell they do not (looked at and tried multiple tutorials incl. hackingwithswift, Ray Wenderlich etc. + I checked Apple's documentation + stackoverflow)
This is what I have come up with so far:
1) Creating a new tab/opening a new URL should create a new UIView + WKWebView programmatically (I'll have to make a subclass out of my current browser view)
=> this should create a separate thread for each WKWebView/tab according to Apple's documentation
2) I need something like a Collection View (or Stack Views etc.) to store screenshot images of the already open tabs as a preview page of all tabs. The cells should be linked via a delegate to the corresponding WkWebView and they should have a close button to close (= delete) the tabs.
Am I overthinking this? If I go down this path I have to find a way to wire up (and subsequently delete) multiple delegates and views to the Collection View dynamically and I have to store & delete screenshots every time the user interacts with the tabs. It seems VERY messy. But given that Chrome on iOS is based on WebKit as of late, it's obviously doable.
How would you tackle this problem?
PS I didn't include a mockup because you all know how the tabs in Chrome, Safari etc. on iOS look like.
EDIT:
I am just looking for a clean and sensible way to add/remove and show the multiple WKWebViews, which are created by opening new tabs - just like in Chrome for iOS or Safari etc.
Ok, I have solved this today :) I will have a main UIView and then multiple WKWebViews, which can be "zoomed in" in order to enter full screen mode. No need for screenshots etc.
So, if you share a photo in the Photos app, it pops open this widget:
This looks like a standard UIPopoverController with some UIButtons. My question is: Is this a system resource as one unit? I have searched using words I thought might fit if it is, but have come up with nothing.
Okay, suppose it does not exist as a system resource. Is there a resource where I can get various sizes of these icons? Specifically the three in the top row. My app already provides functionality for each of these functions which I have coded up. These actions are just tied to ugly text only buttons.
This gets asked a lot. It's a UIActivityViewController. It was added in IOS 6.0.
I am developing an iPad app that needs to have multiple image sources, on the device/Photo Albums, remote and some included with the app. Now the ideal situation would be to have a UIPopover controller with 3 tabs for each source. The only problem is I can't seem to figure out how to have a UIImagePicker be in its own tab. What I am trying to do is very similar to Apple's Keynote for iPad. The photo icon's popover has tabs and the far left tab called media for sure has a UIImagePicker in there. I have no idea how they did that, is it possible for me to do something like that? I think the main issue is that the Image Picker is it's own navigation controller and it cannot be pushed on to another navigation controller. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
check out this - https://github.com/key1jp/ELCImagePickerController
you can implement it with custom asset library
The built-in image picker is no good.
Create your own image picker and add it to your navigation controller as a normal view. Start from either the Matt Tuzzolo or the MyImagePicker from the WWDC 2010 sample code. Note that you probably want to add image and video preview - I copied the image viewer from MyImagePicker and added a 'add' or 'remove' button to it, and the same for video.
Your image picking is in two steps, one for selecting the group, and one for selecting the assets within the group. I recommend dividing the first step into a two - if there is only one, then go directly to that group, i.e. when you have found the first group, check whether that group was the last (block stop argument). Then push the right view controller.
Obiously modify the size of the thumbnails also, they are iPhone size now. Adding a line of metadata (icon and duration) looks much nicer and is more informative for video.
I also recommend adding a 'click-and-hold' function for extended information after like 2 seconds.
Handle different sources by creating a protocol which gives you what you want, i.e.
-(BOOL)isImageAtIndex:(NSInteger)index;
-(UIImage*)thumbnailForUndex:(NSInteger)index;
-(void)setSelectedAtIndex:(NSInteger)index;
Creating a source which handles local files, included resources and assets is perfectly possible - I use NSURLs and check on the url scheme.
Are you not using UITabBarController for your tabs? You should be able to add a UIImagePickerController directly to viewControllers. I'm not sure whether that is a supported use of the image picker, though; the documentation only mentions displaying it modally or displaying it in a UIPopoverController.
It's not usually useful to look at an Apple app to find out what you can do with various built-in controls, as Apple allows themselves to use private APIs.