#Swift share sheet how to#
How to use the share sheet in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 Open an app to share something from on your iPhone Tap the Share in the tool bar From the second row of apps, scroll all the way to the right. Some actions in this section can be turned on and off, but not all of them. App-specific are only for the app from which you're sharing, and Other Actions are for actions from other apps, like adding a package delivery to Deliveries, or for shortcuts that you've made. Favorites are actions you've manually added to that section that you perform all of the time, like copying a URL. The action section is itself split into three sections: Favorites, app-specific actions, and Other Actions. You used to have to tap a big … more button to get a lot of different actions to show up, but now, every compatible action shows up in this section, and while you can turn some off, you can't turn all of them off. There's also a persistent AirDrop button.įinally, we have the actions section, and this has seen the biggest change from the previous share sheet. For this you can have Safari run a JavaSript file to parse the document and retrieve whatever we need. As with previous versions of the share sheet, you use this section for app-specific sharing, and you'll share your item to different apps like Notes, Messages, and Reminders. The share sheet automatically retrieves the page title and sets it as the body text, but generally you’ll want more than that whether it be the URL or an image on the page. This is also where AirDrop operations will automatically pop up if someone is in range with a ready device. The fastest and most convenient way I’ve found is to use the command line to launch your App in the running Simulator.Below this bar, you're now presented with contact-based sharing options, letting you share with a specific contact in an app pre-determined by the system based on your previous contact activity with that person. In theory, you can also edit the URL in the share sheet but I haven’t been able to get that to work with Xcode 12. The share sheet allows you to choose between the running Simulators: Enter the custom URL in the Safari address bar and use the share button to select the Simulator:
#Swift share sheet simulator#
Using the simulator on your Mac is generally faster than using a device (especially if the simulator is already running). It’s slightly less painful on an iPad where I can keep a list of example URL’s in Notes with the App in split screen mode and quickly run down the list observing the results: I find it useful when I want a final sanity check that the launch works on a device. Launching your app from a URL on a device is perhaps the slowest, most cumbersome way during development. Here’s a summary of three different ways you can use to try launching an App with specific URLs. You’re probably going to launch your App many, many times while implementing a custom URL scheme. I’ve been playing with widgets in a sample App that shows country information using the following scheme:Ī typical URL to open the country detail view looks like this: facts://country/1149361 If you need a recap on implementing custom URL schemes take a look at this Apple article. For example, launching to a particular screen or to display a specific item. Custom URL SchemesĪ custom URL scheme gives you a way to launch your app to a specific context. Trying and retrying different URLs during development is tiresome and I couldn’t remember the different ways to do it. I’ve been experimenting with widgets recently which led me to wanting to launch apps with custom URLs.
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