How to give Sharing facility in IOS App.

Kunal Prasad

14 December 2016

Share facility

Sometimes we need to share the data to messages Box or Text editor or to social networking apps. for that,IOS provide some class that will have to use for implementing “share” facility in IOS as well as Ipad.

Here is code snippet that will work fine on both platform like IPhone and IPad.

Code snippet of method on touch event:

- (void)shareToOther:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)recognizer {
    NSString *productUrl = mainCollection[@"productUrl"];
    NSArray *activityItems = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: productUrl, nil];
    UIActivityViewController *activityController = [[UIActivityViewController alloc] initWithActivityItems:activityItems applicationActivities:nil];
    //if iPhone
    if (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone) {
        [self presentViewController:activityController animated:YES completion:nil];
    }
    //if iPad
    else {
        // Change Rect to position Popover
        UIPopoverController *popup = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:activityController];
        [popup presentPopoverFromRect:CGRectMake(self.view.frame.size.width/2, self.view.frame.size.height/4, 0, 0)inView:self.view permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny animated:YES];
    }
}

- (void)shareToOther:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)recognizer {

NSString *productUrl = mainCollection[@"productUrl"];

NSArray *activityItems = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: productUrl, nil];

UIActivityViewController *activityController = [[UIActivityViewController alloc] initWithActivityItems:activityItems applicationActivities:nil];

//if iPhone

if (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone) {

[self presentViewController:activityController animated:YES completion:nil];

}

//if iPad

else {

// Change Rect to position Popover

UIPopoverController *popup = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:activityController];

[popup presentPopoverFromRect:CGRectMake(self.view.frame.size.width/2, self.view.frame.size.height/4, 0, 0)inView:self.view permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny animated:YES];

}

Here “productUrl” contains data like URL,Text etc .