I want to display a list of swfs and allow the user to click on one and have it display. I wanted to use PDF, but need a little more interaction for the user. I've searched around for some swf -> iphone converters, but I want to just display the swf as PART of an app.
Any recommendations?
SWF used to be short for Shockwave/Flash. It is not an "open" file type and requires a huge framework to work correctly, one of which is support for ActionScript. There doesn't seem to be such a framework right now, even Skyfire doesn't do the rendering natively but tries to convert it through a server.
This is possible via CS5->IOS export. It's not the most smooth, but it will allow you to load external swfs. The only gotcya is that the external swfs cannot contain any actionscript (bummer).
Here's a simple example of flash to ios.
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I've been asked to add a file browser to an existing Objective C application that uses a WKWebView to load up a Javascript internal app.
Currently we have the capability of looking at the pictures on device to upload images into the app, but I've now been asked to do the same with more generic file types, specifically PDFs.
What I've read so far is that this is only possible if a file is stored in a specific part of the file system and only if the app knows exactly where the file is to begin with, but what I need is the capability to browse to a certain degree.
What I'd like to know is whether this is possible and if there is a good place to start on that?
Thanks.
I have a Delphi XE5 app which downloads and stores PDFs locally on the device. I have a TWebBrowser on the form to view the PDFs and it works perfectly.
I now wish to share the PDF with other applications (eg Safari, Mail, etc) but am really struggling! I have looked at the TShowShareAction action (on the Action List control) but this caters for a Bitmap (photo) to be shared.
I have seen a lot of posts explaining that one should use UIDocumentInteractionController but I cannot find examples of how to use this from within Delphi. I have looked at Apple.Utils but to no avail.
Has anyone used the UIDocumentInteractionController functionality from within a Delphi application to share a file? Any example would be much appreciated!
I have solved this problem by installing D.P.F. Delphi iOS Native Components
I then added a DPFQLPreviewController to my form and open the PDF with the following code:
DPFQLPreviewController1.ShowDoc(filename, false);
This opens the PDF in the standard iOS previewer and this has a button enabling one to share the file with other installed apps that can read the file (eg a PDF app, email, send to printer, etc)
This is by far the simplest solution I have found and works perfectly on the simulator and an actual device.
For my business I need to be able to show a potential client a website I generate with a program called Pano2VR, which is a virtual tour program. This program takes some panoramic photos linked with each other and can generate a virtual tour out of them (as example: www.casas-fotoart.de/virtualtours ). The output this App gives can be either HTML5, Flash or both (flash if available and html5 for mobile devices, for example).
I need to be able to show that on my iPad while offline. i haven't found any solution for that so I tried to build a easy App for that, which I thought it wouldn't be complicated.
I generated a html5-only virtual tour and I droped the output into the "Suporting Files" group on the Xcode project. I added a UIWebView and on viewDidLoad I set it so it loads the html file.
The files I'm droping are like these (these inside the ipad folder):
The html file loads into the webView, but it just displays "This content requires HTML5/CSS3, WebGL, or Adobe Flash Player Version 9 or higher.", even though when loading these files from the net, it loads perfectly. I know this message comes from the html file.
Any idea on how to make it work will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Your problem is this probably - XCode is mangling the JS files, I assume because it's trying to compile them
I have an interactive PDF, a catalog, where you have to click on a image to go to a specific page. All images are converted in buttons with the option "Go to destination". On Windows and Mac it works perfectly. But on iPad all the links, all the images, are not showing.
I've already read on many forums about this common problem between iOs and interactive PDF's. But I have some old PDF's, with the same principle, and those are working great on iPad. The images are showed, the links works...
That's why I'm wondering if it's not my fault or maybe I export the PDF in a wrong way.
The links to the PDF's.
m.hconline.eu/Baby%20Catalogue.pdf
m.hconline.eu/LA Catalog 2013.pdf
"Buttons" are not compatible with most pdf readers (except Acrobat reader and a few others). Such buttons are not recognized on the standard pdf reader on the iPad. I have checked the old file on the iPad, it does not work as well.
What you need to do is to use regular pdf links instead of buttons. In order to do so, you can use Acrobat Pro, delete your buttons, and create new links using the chain icon. You can specify the area of the link, so the user experience will be the same.
This is an old issue, but I did find more information regarding this. (I'd add a comment to the accepted answer, but alas, i do not have 50 points.)
According to George Johnson, "The problem with InDesign is in using the Go To Next/Previous Page options in InDesign[buttons], it creates an Execute a Menu Item action when exported to PDF, and since Reader for iOS doesn’t have menu items or interprets such actions otherwise, they are just ignored." - https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1142056?tstart=0
As for work arounds, I found a tutorial by Steve Werner, outlining the method of changing your work flow around, and adding your buttons in Adobe Acrobat instead, as kind of a post production linking process. - http://indesignsecrets.com/navigation-button-tricks-for-interactive-pdf-on-an-ipad.php
I need to individualize documents within an iOS-App. I could provide the origin-documents as DOCX, PDF, PPT etc. The output-format has to be PDF.
My minimun requirement is to fill some text-fields. Nice to have would be to replace an image, too.
I´m quite used to generate PDFs programmatically using UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToFile etc. But in my current case I don´t want to create the whole document programmatically, I just want to replace some content.
Any hints / tipps?
Thank you in advance.
DOCX is a zip - format file so you can process the contents programmatically and the reconstruct the zip file. PPT is a binary format though newer versions of PowerPoint might also construct zip-oriented versions that you can programmatically process. You mentioned though that you need don't want to programmatically process these documents - which I would probably also do only as a last resort.
For your DOCX origin/source documents (or doc,odt,rtf but not ppt/pdf) you could use Docmosis cloud services if your app can have the external dependency. You would upload your DOCX origin documents with placeholders for text-fields or images as a one-off/occasional task. Your iOS app then calls Docmosis sending instructions and data to create the output PDF and either stream it back to the app or email/store it or both.
The upside is it takes all the load and coding away from the iOS application (there is an SDK). The downside is it is an external depdendency. Please note I work for the company the created Docmosis.
Hope that helps.
Why not just load a page in a webView modal that points to a URL of a page you create? The main parts of the page would be static, and then the fields you need to customize would be populated via Javascript or PHP.
For example, we have a contact form in our app that gives you an option to view the details of your completed form after you submit. When the user clicks on the button to view the Contact Confirmation, it loads example.com/confirmation.php in a modal view within the iOS App.
On the confirmation.php page (on the web), I use PHP to pull in $_GET variables from the URL parameters which then populates the page with my static content, and their customized information that they entered into the form.