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Share Extension (iOS) & Share Intent (Android)
Rufat (@rufat)
We need this feature for both of the platforms. This is an essential feature. Expo must add this to its' built-in modules: https://github.com/alinz/react-native-share-extension
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Luis Sanchez
Any update on this?
Michael Wood
Luis Sanchez: Yes. Read Ann and Brent's messages from yesterday.
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Ann Baum
Hi Brent Vatne -- I read your blog post here (https://blog.expo.io/expo-managed-workflow-in-2021-d1c9b68aa10) and was curious whether the new workflow will have any impact on the development of share extension/intent? Thanks in advance!
Brent Vatne
Ann Baum: the plan is to address this with the approach outlined in that blog post, but it might take a bit longer because there is quite a lot of complexity involved in automating set up of a share extension in an ios app
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Ann Baum
Brent Vatne: Got it, appreciate the update!
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Chrishawn
Brent Vatne: ideally what we are all looking for is something similar to the react-native share but just with the ability to prepick the app (facebook, twitter) etc. Since this is a super common use case it would be nice to have that share extended to do such, or just a managed expo-wrapper of the react-native-share. while the solution mentioned is a nice universal solution it is fairly complicated for such a simple use case.
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Ed Shrager
Brent Vatne: is there any indication of timing on when this will be available with Expo?
Brent Vatne
Ed Shrager: we do not have any eta, you should run
expo prebuild
to generate your native projects and build it natively on your own if this is important for you.Derek Anderson
Expo devs: what would you charge to fast-track this feature?
Mauro
I need this features!!!
Adam Breckler
This is a very critical component for our project as well and we'll need to abandon using expo if it's not made available
Garrett A. Maring
Can’t wait. Will really unlock new generation of Expo apps.
Isaac Choi
Pleeeeeeeease! I started an expo project without knowing this and I'm stuck
Bradley Ryan
Doh! This is the single most important feature of an app I just started. Was digging around the docs trying to figure how to do this and if it was supported. Looks like I'll be ejecting on day 1 :(
It might be nice to add something in the "Share" api docs along the lines of "receiving content shared via other apps is currently not supported" with a link to relevant development work blocking this. I could open a PR if someone can point me to what to link to (maybe this post?).
Brent Vatne
Bradley Ryan: i've added clarification here https://github.com/expo/expo/commit/eb73d74bb2525ccee5f3b9de729cf340f67ff70d - sorry for the hassle!
Bradley Ryan
Brent Vatne: Great addition! Thanks!
Nikhil Patel
Sadly I've had to eject due to lack of support for this, and even then I haven't been able to get sharing working properly. Very sad :(
Ali Farahat
Can we please have an update on this? 2021 is almost upon us....
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