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Sailesh Dahal · 2023-02-14T03:31:17.487Z

Sharing things like files, pictures, videos, and texts from external apps can be difficult, especially when done without any external packages. Facilitating content sharing via external apps boosts user engagement, improves the user experience, and h...

App not appearing in ShareSheet fix : Runner & Share Extension minimum App Deployment Target should be same for example if your setting it up Ios 14 then set it for both (Runner & ShareExtension) keep it same also make the MACH-O-TYPE = Executable for both (Runner and ShareExtension) for it to work in IOS without showing that grey bottomsheet opening and closing issue.

Ensure the Runner’s Build Phases are in the following order:

Target Dependencies
Run Build Tool Plug-ins
[CP] Check Pods Manifest.lock
Run Script
Embed Share Extension
Compile Sources
Link Binary With Libraries
Copy Bundle Resources
Thin Binary
Embed Frameworks
[CP] Embed Pods Frameworks
[CP] Copy Pods Resources

Great article, thanks! I have prod and dev flavors in my project, and there is a certain problem with them. Share works for builds with both flavors, but recordSentMessage only works for prod env. Conditionally I have app bundles 'com.bla.bla' + 'com.bla.bla.dev' and groups 'group.com.bla.bla'+'group.com.bla.bla.dev'. Do you have recordSentMessage working for all your environments?

I suspect an example of what it looks like without flavors would be helpful.

Hey Guyren Howe github.com/saileshbro/sharing_into_flutter_app/tr…

Have a look at this branch, I have stripped the flavors and created a new one.

Let me know if you need anything else.

… and despite the detail here, this doesn't work for me at all (the app doesn't appear in the share menu on iOS).

Some advice about how to diagnose such problems would be very useful.

Also make sure you have correct entitlements files, they tend to mess up easily.

Sailesh Dahal Thanks for the reply.

I've been through the instructions above at least six times, and my app doesn't appear in the share menu.

I suspect in half an hour you might work out what I'm missing and hence what is missing or unclear here, if we could get on a call or something. Then that could be added to this piece and it would be better.

Hit me up @unclouded on twitter.

Guyren Howe make sure your Runner & Share Extension minimum App Deployment Target should be same for example if your setting it up Ios 14 then set it for both keep it same also make the MACH-O-TYPE = Executable for both Runner and ShareExtension for it to work in IOS without showing that grey bottomsheet opening and closing issue.

Great piece.

Note that pod install --repo-update gives an error:

[!] No podspec found for share_handler_ios_models in .symlinks/plugins/share_handler_ios/ios/Models

until the project has been built at least once, at which point Flutter has created the referenced symlink.

Thanks for mentioning Guyren Howe, I will update the article with the information. Thanks

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