Registering a document type for iOS image sharing from Photos

Question

I would like to have my xamarin forms app appear in the list of possible targets of the image share in the iOS Photos app. I followed the directions in this blog:

https://codemilltech.com/sending-files-to-a-xamarin-forms-app-part-1-ios/

Changing it for images instead of PDFs but it does not work. Basically, I added a Document Type to the info.plist for the type public.image and when I share an image from Files or from the Mail app then my app appears in the list and it works correctly. But no matter what I do I cannot make my app appear in the Photos sharing list.

Has anyone been able to get this working?

Answer 1

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

Mail apps use UIDocumentInteractionController to share between apps but Photo uses UIActivityViewController to share items. This requires you to implement the share extension for your application: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/xamarin/ios-samples/ios8-share/.

Refer tp https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/comment/402298/#Comment_402298.

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