Simple way to add Facebook/Twitter share to app?

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I'm looking for a drop in solution to add a Facebook and Twitter share button option to my app. I've googled this of course, and found shareKit but it's non-ARC so just throws lots of errors, which is of no use to me. Any other options? they need to be ARC compatible.

I want a SDK that I can drop in, throw in the App ID's and be done.

I believe you can turn ARC off for individual files or libraries. — geminiCoder, Feb 04 '14 at 16:25
Thanks, I can try that but there has to be a simple drop in SDK to do this, surely? — Phil, Feb 04 '14 at 16:45

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 04 '14 at 16:56

If you want simple sharing, the following can be used for Twitter and Facebook:

if ([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter]) {
    SLComposeViewController *slComposeViewController = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter];

    [slComposeViewController setInitialText:@"Your text"];
    [slComposeViewController addImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"NameOfImage"]];
    [self presentViewController:slComposeViewController animated:YES completion:nil];
} else {
    //Show alert or in some way handle the fact that the device does not support this feature
}

For Facebook, simply replace SLServiceTypeTwitter with SLServiceTypeFacebook. The "Social" framework must be imported :-)

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 04 '14 at 17:58

You can use UIActivityViewController:

NSArray * activityItems = activityItems = @[@"title", [NSURL URLWithString:@"urlstring"]];
    UIActivityViewController *activityController = [[UIActivityViewController alloc] initWithActivityItems:activityItems applicationActivities:nil];
    [self presentViewController:activityController animated:YES completion:nil];

References : https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UIActivityViewController_Class/Reference/Reference.html

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 04 '14 at 16:16

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Yes use the native iOS sharing dialog: UIActivityViewController

answered Feb 04 '14 at 16:16

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