In one of my upcoming apps I want the user to be able to send a file using the UIActivityViewController. As I create the NSData object during runtime, I passed the data to the activity view like this:
NSData *someData = /*...*/; UIActivityViewController *activityViewController = [[UIActivityViewController alloc] initWithActivityItems:@[someData] applicationActivities:nil];
But unfortunately this resulted in something like this:
So in order to get a filename instead of “Attachment-1” I create a file in the temporary directory and pass the activity view the url.
// create url
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[NSTemporaryDirectory() stringByAppendingString:@"My File.txt"]];
NSData *data = /*...*/;
// write data
[dataToWrite writeToURL:url atomically:NO];
// create activity view controller
UIActivityViewController *activityViewController = [[UIActivityViewController alloc] initWithActivityItems:@[url] applicationActivities:nil];
[activityViewController setCompletionWithItemsHandler:^(NSString *activityType, BOOL completed, NSArray *returnedItems, NSError *activityError) {
//Delete file
NSError *errorBlock;
if([[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeItemAtURL:url error:&errorBlock] == NO) {
NSLog(@"error deleting file %@",error);
return;
}
}];
As a result, the messages screen looks now like this:
February 6, 2017 at 14:23
Hi! nice tutorial. It works for messages app, but did you test to share a mail with this code? I get next error and don’t know why…
[General] #Attachments Error confirming URL is readable [file:/private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/3E4D88D3-DCC7-4461-9183-3537FCCFC074/tmp/aoi_history.pdf — file:///]
February 6, 2017 at 14:35
Hey Carlos,
I just tried to share a mail containing the file and it worked. Are you sure that the file exists when opening the UIActivityViewController? If you unzipped or generated the file, you might also want to check whether the file has the correct permissions set (although this is unlikely on iOS).
Thomas
February 6, 2017 at 16:11
Thanks Thomas for answering,
sure file exists, I download it from api, write local, and show inside a UIWebView and from this view I try to share it. For messages and dropbox works fine, but mail throws the error I have mentionated before…
February 6, 2017 at 16:37
Hey Carlos,
I’ve tried it a few more times, using differently constructed URLs and different files, but I couldn’t reproduce the error. The only help I could find was http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21867923/ios-7-uiactivityviewcontroller-email-attachment maybe this solves your problem.
Thomas
February 6, 2017 at 17:20
I don’t know why exactly, but when I have changed the creation of the NSUrl from:
NSURL *tmpDirURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:NSTemporaryDirectory() isDirectory:YES];
NSURL *fileURL = [tmpDirURL URLByAppendingPathComponent:@”aoi_history.pdf”];
to:
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[NSTemporaryDirectory() stringByAppendingString:filename]];
work fine in every share option…
Thanks for your help Thomas!
May 24, 2017 at 09:34
How to share audio file with this in swift3 please update code in swift3 with audio file sharing example.
Thanx,
Uzer
May 24, 2017 at 13:07
Hey Uzer,
unfortunately, I do not like Swift at all. Therefore I’m trying to code as little as possible in Swift and I won’t update any code on this site to Swift. If you take a look at the documentation for NSURL/URL, NSData/Data, UIActivityController and NSFileManager/FileManager it should be easy to translate the code to Swift (you can even switch the documentation between Obj-C and Swift).
Thanks,
Thomas
May 24, 2017 at 09:38
file:///var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/5A158F94-39D0-4DCE-9B51-EA5A09566B93/Documents/sound.caf
My Audio url is generate above type how can i share this url with default share in swift3
August 23, 2017 at 08:05
let url = URL(fileURLWithPath: “/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/5A158F94-39D0-4DCE-9B51-EA5A09566B93/Documents/sound.caf”)
let vc = UIActivityViewController(activityItems: [url], applicationActivities: nil)
vc.popoverPresentationController?.barButtonItem = sender
present(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)
January 23, 2020 at 21:38
Excellent Work!!!