REActivityViewController

Open source alternative to UIActivityViewController, highly customizable and compatible with iOS 5.0.

• Xcode 4.5 or higher
• Apple LLVM compiler
• iOS 5.0 or higher
• ARC

If you are not using ARC in your project, add -fobjc-arc as a compiler flag for all the files in this project.

Build and run the REActivityViewControllerExample project in Xcode to see REActivityViewController in action.

The recommended approach for installating REActivityViewController is via the CocoaPods package manager, as it provides flexible dependency management and dead simple installation.

Install CocoaPods if not already available:

$ [sudo] gem install cocoapods
$ pod setup

Edit your Podfile and add REActivityViewController:

$ edit Podfile
platform :ios, '5.0'
pod 'REActivityViewController', '~> 1.0'

Install into your Xcode project:

$ pod install

All you need to do is drop REActivityViewController files into your project, and add #include "REActivityViewController.h" to the top of classes that will use it.

Presenting REActivityViewController is easy as 1-2-3. First, prepare activities that you're going to use. You can create custom activities right here in your code, no need to deal with subclassing or providers as in UIActivityViewController. Once your activities are ready, prepare data source (userInfo) and present the view controller.

// Prepare activities
//
REFacebookActivity *facebookActivity = [[REFacebookActivity alloc] init];
RETwitterActivity *twitterActivity = [[RETwitterActivity alloc] init];
REMessageActivity *messageActivity = [[REMessageActivity alloc] init];
RESafariActivity *safariActivity = [[RESafariActivity alloc] init];
RESaveToAlbumActivity *saveToAlbumActivity = [[RESaveToAlbumActivity alloc] init];
REPrintActivity *printActivity = [[REPrintActivity alloc] init];
RECopyActivity *copyActivity = [[RECopyActivity alloc] init];
REMapsActivity *mapsActivity = [[REMapsActivity alloc] init];
REInstagramActivity *instagramActivity = [[REInstagramActivity alloc] init];

// Compile activities into an array, we will pass that array to
// REActivityViewController on the next step
//
NSArray *activities = @[facebookActivity, twitterActivity, messageActivity, saveToAlbumActivity, safariActivity, mapsActivity, instagramActivity, printActivity, copyActivity];

// Create REActivityViewController controller and assign data source
//
REActivityViewController *activityViewController = [[REActivityViewController alloc] initWithViewController:self activities:activities];
activityViewController.userInfo = @{
    @"image": [UIImage imageNamed:@"Flower.jpg"],
    @"text": @"Hello world!",
    @"url": [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://github.com/romaonthego/REActivityViewController"],
    @"coordinate": @{@"latitude": @(37.751586275), @"longitude": @(-122.447721511)}
};

// Present it using current context
//
self.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationCurrentContext;
[self presentViewController:activityViewController animated:YES completion:^{
    self.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFullScreen;
}];

On iPad, you should use UIPopoverController to present REActivityViewController. _popoverViewController property of UIViewController is still a private API (sigh), so we'll need to pass it manually: activityViewController.presentingPopoverController = _activityPopoverController;

// Create REActivityViewController controller and assign data source
//
REActivityViewController *activityViewController = [[REActivityViewController alloc] initWithViewController:self activities:activities];
    @"image": [UIImage imageNamed:@"Flower.jpg"],
    @"text": @"Hello world!",
    @"url": [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://github.com/romaonthego/REActivityViewController"],
    @"coordinate": @{@"latitude": @(37.751586275), @"longitude": @(-122.447721511)}
};

_activityPopoverController = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:activityViewController];
activityViewController.presentingPopoverController = _activityPopoverController;
[_activityPopoverController presentPopoverFromBarButtonItem:self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem
                                   permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny animated:YES];

TO DO

TO DO

• REActivityViewController doesn't support landscape orientation on iPhone, so you'll need to lock your presenting view controller in portrait orientation.

Roman Efimov

• https://github.com/romaonthego
• https://twitter.com/romaonthego

REActivityViewController is available under the MIT license.

Copyright © 2013 Roman Efimov.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.