GSoC 2014 : iOS Sharing library

[maxday]

Hi !
I would like to share a draft of my proposal for a 2013 idea : iOS Sharing
library

The idea is to develop a third part library.
Then iOS developers could use this library in their own app to provide their
users with a "share with wordpress feature".

Here is the direct link to my proposal : http://maxday.fr/gsoc2014.pdf

I will be glad to hear any comments to improve my proposal

Thank you !




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[Bryan Petty]

Post by maxday
Then iOS developers could use this library in their own app to provide their
users with a "share with wordpress feature".

Doesn't the WordPress iOS app already provide this functionality? I
don't have an iOS device to test with quickly here, but I know that
the WordPress Android app already does this exactly as the platform
has intended it to be provided.

Maybe I'm just not quite correctly understanding the scope with which
we would need a separate API just to provide this functionality in
addition to the platform's built-in sharing mechanisms that users are
already familiar with, nor why a 3rd party app would want to implement
this instead of using the built-in APIs that are designed to allow
sharing anything with any number of other networks besides just a WP
blog based on other installed applications.

Regards,
Bryan Petty

[Bryan Petty]

Post by Bryan Petty
instead of using the built-in APIs that are designed to allow
sharing anything with any number of other networks

Nevermind, I guess reading into this a bit has made me realize that
this doesn't actually exist on iOS.

Certainly explains why projects like this exist:
http://getsharekit.com/

Regards,
Bryan Petty

[maxday]

Thanks for your feedbak !

In iOS each application is (unfortunately ?) sandboxed and it's not possible
to communicate from one to an other.
Nevertheless Apple provides developpers with "Custom Url Schemes"
http://www.idev101.com/code/Objective-C/custom_url_schemes.html

It allows an iOS app to pass data to an other app. (If the receiver app has
handlers to these kind of calls)

Since the iOS worpdress application is currently using some custom urls, the
idea is to develop a library to use them super easily for every developers
and to contribute to the expansion of Wordpress

By the way, after some comments on IRC, I've updated my proposal :
maxday.fr/gsoc2014-v2.pdf





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