Native Share for Android & iOS [Open Source]

i new in develop phone app. after doing some research, i just can't seem to wrap my head around exactly how it works, or what it's doing, which is making it really difficult to understand why the other code works. It appears I have reached some kind of logic gap and could really use some help understanding. can you explain more detail about it?

 

These are native Java (Android) and Objective-C (iOS) things. I've posted them here to show you which native calls NativeShare makes on each platform. You just have to try sharing something with NativeShare and see if bluetooth printer appears in the target apps list. If it doesn't, unfortunately there's nothing I can do.

 

Running into the lovely "Can't find ContentProvider, share not possible!" issue. This happened after accidentally rewriting my manifest, losing the provider tag. I have made sure the provider is re-added, and have moved it throughout the entire manifest for new builds. It's getting to the point where I'm just wasting way too much time trying to get sharing to work again.

I verified in both AndroidManifest-main.xml, as well as AndroidManifest.xml in Temp>StagingArea...

Running out of ideas here. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Is the provider located inside the

<application>...</application>

tags in AndroidManifest as shown in the image below? Can I see your Temp/StagingArea/AndroidManifest.xml file? If possible, please send it to me via private message.

 

In my case, I need to embed (pin) deeplink to share the message, but unfortunately, the user can remove the text accidentally. Is the any option to attach the link to any message after user enter his text and clicked post?

 

It is not possible with NativeShare.

 

thank you man, i can detech my printer. and i more question. how do i take video and share on social media?

 

There are different ways of taking a video:

Recording gameplay: you can use Everyplay or NatCorder
Picking video from Gallery: you can use NativeGallery
Recording a video with the camera: you can use NativeCamera

 

hi, i cant find everplay on asset store and what i read from review that 2019 kinda problem when using natcorder. i want record video in my app and share it at social media. i cant use native camera because it will open camera app

 

Everyplay is available at: https://github.com/everyplay/everyplay-unity-sdk
I'd recommend you to also post at NatCorder's forum thread about your concerns and requirements.

 

any good news????

 

I didn't receive an answer to this, so there is no progress.

 

hi, thanks for the plugin. for some reason I'm not able to share multiple files using it in android devices. [single file sharing works] .but the same code works like a charm for ios multiple sharing . i dont know where I'm missing out .any help will be highly appreciated

 

Can you try sharing on different applications and on different devices to see if this issue is persistent?

 

Hi, I want to share a pre-defined image instead of sharing a screenshot, and I tried changing the path but it seems that none seems to work.

I tried using Application.persistentDataPath

I tried putting my images in Resources folder.

I tried to sharing jpg, uncompressed png and until now, only the share text will be shown.

Is there a specific way I can get the correct path?
Please assist.
Thanks!

 

Application.persistentDataPath should work. But make sure that System.IO.File.Exists(filePath) returns true before calling AddFile. It probably returns false right now.

 

Hello,
Thank you for your plugin, it's working well on Android, but I have a problem on iOS, the dialog system open,
and I got these logs:
[MC] Filtering mail sheet accounts for bundle ID: [My Bundle ID], source account management: 1
[MC] Result: NO

And the dialog system look like:



Thanks,
Thomas.

 

I might have to see your share script.

 

Hello,
The share script is really easy:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. if( this.m_nativeShare == null )
3.             this.m_nativeShare = new NativeShare();
4.      
5.         this.m_nativeShare.SetSubject( Gem.Localise.Get( LocaliseConstants.SHARE_INVITE_TITLE ) );
6.         this.m_nativeShare.SetText( Gem.Localise.Get( LocaliseConstants.SHARE_INVITE_TEXT ) + "\n" + Constants.SHARE_LINK );
7.         this.m_nativeShare.SetTitle( Gem.Localise.Get( LocaliseConstants.SHARE_INVITE_TITLE ) );
8.         this.m_nativeShare.Share();

 

Hello,
Sorry for the double posts,
It's working fine now, I guest the problem was about the SetText, it was empty before.
Thanks again for your plugin,
Thomas.

 

Hi, Thank you for amazing asset!
I wish to send email with this asset (and it works great) from iOS.

How can I add mailing addresses (recipients) from code (so I dont need to fill email adresses when the email sending window opens) ?

 

It is not possible to fill the email addresses when using NativeShare. Please check out this post to see how you can compose an email without using NativeShare: https://forum.unity.com/threads/native-share-for-android-ios-open-source.519865/page-3#post-3764191

 

Hi, can/should I use this plugin to share saved games from the DEMO version of my game with the FULL version?
And is it going to work on both platforms?

Thanks

 

This plugin is used for sharing files with other people via Facebook, WhatsApp and etc. So I don't think it'd be suitable for this use-case. But I'm unsure about how else you could share the saved game between two different apps, especially on iOS. One unusual way would be to save the save file to Photos/Gallery as a PNG file? I don't know, lol.

 

Hello. I only need to share part of the screen. How to do it?

 

This should help: https://forum.unity.com/threads/taking-screenshot-of-partial-area.54189/

 

Would there be anyway to know if the share dialog is open? While the dialog is open I want to halt another looping function and turn it back on when the dialog is closed but I don't see a way to do this currently.

A second issue Im noticing is the iOS native share dialog pops up on the middle of the screen and looks sort of odd as apposed to popping up and the bottom like if I was sharing a photo on the OS's photo app for example.

 

A callback is unfortunately not possible, please see: https://github.com/yasirkula/UnityNativeShare/issues/5

If it is possible to change the position of the popup on iPads, it should be achieved by modifying this line: https://github.com/yasirkula/UnityN...dd/Plugins/NativeShare/iOS/NativeShare.mm#L39

I'm not good at Objective-C so I can't give you an exact code but you can try something like this:

[popup presentPopoverFromRect:CGRectMake( rootViewController.view.frame.size.width / 2, 0, 0, 0 ) inView:rootViewController.view permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionUp animated:YES];

 

NativeShare() not found. What header should I import in my script?

Code (CSharp):

1. using NativeShare;

My problem was that I use

Code (CSharp):

1.  NativeShare().SetText("http://somesite.com").Share();

instead of

Code (CSharp):

1. new NativeShare().SetText("http://somesite.com").Share();

 

When I use this plugin, I found bug.
It's my source codes bellow, only shared the "File" without the text and the subject.

Code (CSharp):

1. new NativeShare().AddFile(filePath).SetSubject(subject).SetText(text).Share();

Thank you that your plugin is very helpful for me.

 

It is not possible to share a file with a text on some apps like Facebook without using their dedicated SDKs. NativeShare doesn't use any app-specific SDKs.

P.S. For maximum compatibility, I'd recommend you to share only the file because some apps may decide to omit the file instead of omitting the text/subject.

 

Thank you

 

Hi, I'm trying to share an image in nativeshare and getting the can't find content provider error in logcat. When i look at my temp\stagingarea\androidmanifest.xml there is no provider node in there at all.

I don't have any custom android manifests that need to be merged causing drama either, just using Unity 2019.2.7.

 

You can try using the newest version on GitHub, it modifies the AndroidManifest automatically. Otherwise, please check out README.txt for the necessary AndroidManifest modifications.

 

it is causing Unity to add Read_Phone_State permission why..?

 

Just fixed it with the latest release.

 

Hi. Tell me please how can I send a file to a specific application? As an example, I need to open a presentation in Keynote app (iOS), is it possible to do this without additional steps?

 

You can only narrow down the options in the share sheet (example), you can't share on an app directly on iOS using NativeShare. For apps like Facebook, it requires using their own Unity SDKs but for Keynote I don't know how it can be accomplished.

 

Thanks!

 

how to know sharing success or fail, thank you

 

Unfortunately, it is not possible. For a little more info, please check out: https://github.com/yasirkula/UnityNativeShare/issues/5

 

Hi, i am trying to print a document.
I print it correctly if i share the image from the gallery, but when i use unity:

new NativeShare().AddFile(urlBuono).SetTarget("it.custom.printservice.customprintservice")/*.SetSubject("Subject goes here").SetText("Hello world!")*/.Share();


it let me select the printer trought the plugin, it give me NO ERROR OR WARNING AT ALL.

anyone can help?

 

This part confused me.

• Does calling the Share function of the NativeShare plugin let you select the printer?
  • if so, is this issue about the document not getting printed out after selecting a printer? I don't think I can do much about that.
• Or, are you talking about the gallery app's share dialog?
  • if so, does the printer show up in the share dialog if you remove the SetTarget function? If it does, then probably the target it.custom.printservice.customprintservice package name is somehow wrong. Please double check it. Use NativeShare.FindTarget if you have to. And make sure that you are using logcat to check error or warning messages.

 

Hi, I am trying to only share something via specific platforms (facebook, email, linkedin) and don't want other apps to be shown. Is this possible with the plugin?

 

It is not possible on Android and only partially possible on iOS. For iOS, please check out this post: https://forum.unity.com/threads/native-share-for-android-ios-open-source.519865/page-4#post-4011874

 

@yasirkula Hello please help after add in manifest

<provider
android:name="com.yasirkula.unity.NativeShareContentProvider"
android:authorities="MY_UNIQUE_AUTHORITY"
android:exported="false"
android:grantUriPermissions="true" />

and build game to android after install it i got this
Unfortunately, Game has stopped

 

You should no longer add that provider manually, it is added automatically.

 

Thank you for your response ok i will remove it and test it again

 

After removed it from Manifest the share button not working

 

How can i fix it please ?