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Channel #cordova-ios (5 messages)

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:54:48 GMT

@norman137 says

iOS by default is pretty locked down. Sharing the file to other apps like the File Manager is different than storing that file on a server.

The typical way of sending a file to a server is through an HTTP request that uploads the server, which the server then saves the file in a persistent location (such as database, filesystem or CDN, etc...). This can be done by reading the file using cordova-plugin-file plugin and then making a http request with a traditional JS XMLHttpRequest class.

If you want to share the file with other iOS apps, then natively that‘s usually done with the UIActivityViewController[1], I’m not aware of any cordova plugins that interfaces with that native object to share files, but there is one that most likely exists. I found this one in a quick google search: https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/SocialSharing-PhoneGap-Plugin which still appears to be maintained. (Screenshots are obv old, but had updates to support AndroidX a few months ago so...)

{1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiactivityviewcontroller?language=objc

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:38:39 GMT

@info.vishalgohil says

Thanks @norman137 for the reply, here is video of my requirement, it sharing single image from Photos to my IONIC app. This same I have to implement for multiple image, PDF and ZIP

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:40:18 GMT

@info.vishalgohil says

I checked on google, there is no any plugin for IOS IONIC-5, The plugin is available for IONIC-1 so I modified the plugin and it working for single image only.

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:40:43 GMT

@info.vishalgohil says

I try to manage that plugin for multiple image and PDF, ZIP but no luck.

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:29:10 GMT

@norman137 says

Sorry, I don‘t really know how to use UIActivityViewController so I can’t really provide much more input. I just know natively that's how you share files. Based on naming schemes, it sounds like it supports handling more than 1 file at the same time, but not sure how to make it happen.