Documents and Data Sharing: The Advanced iOS 6 Developer's Cookbook

Product Author Bios

Erica Sadun is the bestselling author, co-author and contributor to over two-dozen books on Programming, Digital Video, Digital Photography, and Web Design, among others. She has blogged forTUAW.com and O'Reilly's Mac Devcenter and Digital Media sites, and now regularly blogs for Ars Technica. In addition to being the author of over a dozen iPhone-native applications, Erica holds a Ph. D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech's Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center. A geek, a programmer, and an author, she's never met a gadget she didn't love.

When not writing, she and her geek husband parent three adorable geeks-in-training, who regard their parents with restrained bemusement.

Under iOS, applications can share information and data as well as move control from one application to another using a variety of system features. Each application has access to a common system pasteboard that allows copying and pasting across apps. Users can transfer documents from one app to another app that supports that format. They can request a number of system-supplied "actions" to apply to a document, such as printing, tweeting, or posting to a Facebook wall. Apps can declare custom URL schemes that can be embedded in text and web pages. This eBook by bestselling author and developer Erica Sadun introduces the ways you can integrate documents and data sharing between applications. You’ll see how to add these features into your applications and use them smartly to make your app a cooperative citizen of the iOS ecosystem.
 
This digital short is an adapted excerpt from The Advanced iOS 6 Developer's Cookbook (Early Edition), 4th Edition (ISBN 9780133362534). The content of this digital short may differ slightly from the content in the book. Purchasers of this digital short are invited to use coupon code sadundocdata, good for 30% off the list price of the book on InformIT exclusively.

Table of Contents

Recipe: Working with Uniform Type Identifiers
     Determining UTIs from File Extensions
     Moving From UTI to Extension or MIME Type
     Testing Conformance
     Retrieving Conformance Lists
Recipe: Accessing the System Pasteboard
     Storing Data
     Storing Common Types
     Retrieving Data
     Passively Updating the Pasteboard
Recipe: Monitoring the Documents Folder
     Enabling Document File Sharing
     User Control
     Xcode Access
     Scanning for New Documents
Recipe: Presenting the Activity View Controller
     Presenting the Activity View Controller
     Activity Item Sources
     Item Providers
     Item Source Callbacks
     Adding Services
     Items and Services
     Supporting HTML Email
     Excluding Activities
Recipe: The Quick Look Preview Controller
     Implementing QuickLook
Recipe: Adding a QuickLook Action
Recipe: Using The Document Interaction Controller
     Creating Document Interaction Controller Instances
     Document Interaction Controller Properties
     Providing Document Quick Look Support
     Checking for the Open Menu
Recipe: Declaring Document Support
     Creating Custom Document Types
     Implementing Document Support
Recipe: Creating URL-Based Services
     Declaring the Scheme
     Testing URLs
     Adding the Handler Method
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