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UIActivityViewController NSData with Filename

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:

without_filename

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:

with_filename

Setting up a File Type for your Mac App

As I often have problems setting up a custom filetype for my Document-Based Applications I decided to write a short tutorial on how to do it (actually just one image). You just need to enter most of the information twice, once for the Document Type and once for the Exported UTI.
Look at those two lists for what types you have to choose:
List of Uniform Type Identifiers
Wikipedia Article about MIME (including common types)

filetypetut

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