The curious case of ShareLink with plain text strings

Sun, 24 Sep 2023 22:30:00 +0200

I’m currently playing with ShareLink, a lot, for my upcoming app SharePal. And I couldn’t miss this very strange and inconsistent behavior I got with it. Specifically when providing a string as an item.

Implement iOS 17’s new AirDrop experience

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 07:00:00 +0000

One of the most “off radar” feature from this year WWDC probably is the new Share experience introduced by Apple with iOS 17.

From sharing your info with NameDrop, to starting a new SharePlay, we can now just approach the top of our phones together to share some content.

NameDrop is entirely system based, and SharePlay is documented with a few sessions videos from WWDC. As for AirDrop, turns out the system leverage already existing API to make it work!

Updated on June 20, 2023
Added the fact that iOS 17 NameDrop shipped with beta 2 only; and that initiating an AirDrop still need to open share sheet first for now.
“Share sheet less” share experience was marked as later this year by Apple

Airdrop on Dean’s blog

The curious case of ShareLink with plain text strings

Implement iOS 17’s new AirDrop experience