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Jake Chasan
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06/26/13 12:28 PM (12 years ago)

New Plugin: Share Controller

Hi Everyone, Check out my new plugin (it is all done, just waiting for the Plugin Market to Re-Open) It utilizes the native UIActivityViewController. Screenshots: http://jworldhosting.com/Uploads/Apps/ShareController/ShareController_CP_Screenshot.png http://jworldhosting.com/Uploads/Apps/ShareController/ShareController_iOS_Screenshot.png If you would like a release copy, please PM me. (We can work something out) Jake
 
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06/26/13 01:15 PM (12 years ago)
That looks really really nice, Jake! Nice Job!! iOS only? Cheers! -- Smug
 
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06/26/13 01:18 PM (12 years ago)
@SmugWimp: Currently iOS Only. I do not know if Android has the same type of sharing controller. Jake
 
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06/26/13 01:20 PM (12 years ago)
Probably not.. Android lacks so much! It's frustrating, lol! Really nice job. Looks so very good :) Cheers! -- Smug
 
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06/26/13 01:20 PM (12 years ago)
@SmugWimp: Thank you Jake
 
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06/26/13 01:34 PM (12 years ago)
What activities is it going to share
 
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06/26/13 01:36 PM (12 years ago)
@Kittsy: Mail, Message, Facebook, Twitter, Weibo, Copy, Print, Camera Roll, Assign to Contact. Jake
 
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06/26/13 01:38 PM (12 years ago)
What's it going to copy, print, assign to contact. How's this gonna work
 
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06/26/13 01:49 PM (12 years ago)
@SmugWimp - it's a Share Intent in Android. The intent uses any sharing facility the user has on their device, shown in a list. Only a few lines of code too, for a change!
 
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06/26/13 01:57 PM (12 years ago)
@Kittsy: it will perform these activities with the images which are specified in the control panel. Jake
 
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06/26/13 02:03 PM (12 years ago)
So it's gonna be like a combined invisible Facebook and twitter but with the ability to print the image or copy it a contact or to your phone.
 
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06/26/13 02:24 PM (12 years ago)
Just seen post, like the idea but was a little confused about what you can share, but Jake has explained now, was wondering what I could use it for.
 
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06/26/13 03:54 PM (12 years ago)
Here is the information: It works similar to the Invisible Facebook and Twitter plugins, however, it has the native pop up. Before this plugin, if you wanted to accomplish this task, you would need several plugins, each configured separately: 1. Menu Plugin to Display Sharing 2. Icons of Twitter, Facebook, Mail and Facebook 3. Facebook Plugin 4. Twitter Plugin 5. Email Plugin 6. Message Plugin App Requires iOS 6, or the Facebook and Twitter Plugins do not show. With this new ShareController plugin, if the user is on iOS 5, an alert will show telling them iOS 6 is needed to view this plugin. I hope this helps to clarify about my plugin, Jake
 
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06/26/13 04:14 PM (12 years ago)
I understand what the UIActivityController is I've used it and its many GitHub variations. I have used this to create more dynamic sharing such as printing PDFs and copying ghem to Dropbox from the PDF plugin. Sharing the web views of the RSS feeds. Posting triathlon times and quiz and games scores to Facebook, twitter and google+.sharing images from the gallery plugins I was just wondering what it would share and how entwined it would be with the plugin it was used with. It will be cool not to have to input multiple share info for app publicity.
 
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06/26/13 04:23 PM (12 years ago)
@Kittsy: Ok, so it will share: -Images -Images from URLs -Text -URLs -It may share files (I may implement this in the near future) Jake
 
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06/26/13 05:27 PM (12 years ago)
So, it shares what the developer wants shared? This would eliminate the need for quite a few other plugins.
 
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06/26/13 06:17 PM (12 years ago)
@Red Dog: Yes It Does Jake
 
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06/26/13 08:59 PM (12 years ago)
Looks very cool! Can't wait to purchase it and put it in my apps! Nice Job! Raoul
 
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06/26/13 09:39 PM (12 years ago)
Looks great Jake! Sorry to have you answer this question again, but I'm still confused on "what" it shares. Let's say I want it to share text. Will it only share the text that I enter into the control panel? Or can it pull from what's on the screen (like say the URL for the currently loaded webView). I'm guessing not, as that would seem to be pretty custom coding based on the type of screen being shown. But thought I'd ask. Same type of thing with images.
 
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06/27/13 08:22 AM (12 years ago)
@chris1: I suppose you could add a function to another plugin which calls my plugin, and that function could set the URL to be that which was loaded. Alternative Solution: If you wanted to share a URL (and you know it ahead of time) in a WebView, you could just configure it to share the same URL. Jake
 
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06/27/13 05:48 PM (12 years ago)
Yep - would be a pretty easy mod to make to a plugin to dynamically call yours with the desired text.
 
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06/27/13 05:55 PM (12 years ago)
@chris: I was thinking of an idea: We (as a community) could start interconnecting the plugins, so one developer could make a "plugin" to a "plugin." If you had a really great mod to an existing plugin, you could sell it, or incorporate it into another complete plugin. What do you think? Jake
 
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06/27/13 06:10 PM (12 years ago)
Yeah - we haven't come up with a good way to do that yet, huh? I had originally proposed the idea of making plugin 'add-ons', where you would include only the files that you modified. Thus, the buyer would have to already own the first plugin, since yours would point to its files. But, that got messy and we (Buzztouch leadership team and I) decided it was best to sell those as separate, complete plugins. (Think of my Menu Image Advanced plugin - it's really a mod of Susan's plugin, which is really a mod of the Menu Simple plugin). That being said, we could offer 'do-it-yourself' mod's for plugins, or offer to sell our services to make the mods for people. In fact, Kittsy and I have already been doing that, though it's not a formalized process.
 
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10/20/13 04:19 PM (12 years ago)
The ShareMenu plugin is live in the BuzztouchMods Market. Here is the link: https://buzztouchmods.com/market It is called "ShareMenu" for $4.99 Screenshots: iOS 6: http://jworldhosting.com/Apps/Plugins/ShareMenu/Screenshot_iOS6.png iOS 7: http://jworldhosting.com/Apps/Plugins/ShareMenu/Screenshot_iOS7.png Please let me know if you have any questions. Jake Subscribe for Updates and Information about new plugin releases from BuzztouchMods: [email protected]
 

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