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  • Tutorial: Creating an iOS Share Sheet

    iOS share sheets are a great way to allow your users to share content from your app. This is a great way to provide your users with the ability to share your app with their network of friends and family for you. A recommendation from somebody you trust is both more powerful than an advertisement and free for the app owner. It is also very easy to do.

    Tutorial

    Firstly, add this extension to the UIViewController to your project. It requires you to pass in your object and will present a share sheet for this object on the active UIViewController.

    https://gist.github.com/rtking1993/36e4191190bff961c0d901640b572ffd

    Next, we have the implementation, we want to create an object with three parameters (text, image, and url), then we call our presentShareSheet function from our extension.

    https://gist.github.com/rtking1993/3b6b1e7d5c7a1ca6aebd41dd163d1b87

    As you can see we are doing this inside an IBAction, so we can create the share sheet whenever we like. And something like the image below is what you should see.

     

    The full source code for a test project I have created for displaying iOS share sheets is available:

    https://github.com/rtking1993/ShareSheet