iOS 13, Custom Image, title and subtitle in the presented UIActivityViewController

Question

I would like to know if there is any way to customise the image, title and subtitle of presented UIActivityViewController in iOS 13?

Did you figure this out? I've seen a few apps do and this I was wondering how they did it. — ian, Feb 13 '20 at 14:04

Sattar · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-14T09:22:59.807

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I have found a solution using UIActivityItemSource

UIActivityItemSource have this protocol activityViewControllerLinkMetadata(_ activityViewController: UIActivityViewController) -> LPLinkMetadata?which we can use to set image title and subtitle for our UIActivityViewController

This is an example:

 public func activityViewControllerLinkMetadata(_ activityViewController: UIActivityViewController) -> LPLinkMetadata? {
    let metadata = LPLinkMetadata()

    metadata.title = "My title" // Preview Title

    // Set image 

        metadata.imageProvider = NSItemProvider(object: image)
        metadata.iconProvider = NSItemProvider(object: image)
        metadata.url = urlImage

   // Set URL for sharing 
        metadata.originalURL = myUrl // Add this if you want to have a url in your share message.

    return metadata
}

And this is the result: I have my custom image and title.

edited Feb 14 '20 at 09:22

answered Feb 14 '20 at 09:13

Sattar

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FYI You can kinda 'hack' the subtitle by using a file URL. `metadata.originalURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "My custom subtitle")` – Shaps Aug 10 '20 at 10:48
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Unfortunately LPLinkMetadata is only available for iOS 13+ – user3344977 Nov 19 '20 at 18:16
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What object do you pass for image? For me the image is seen with extra white spaces around. – Sayalee Pote Feb 19 '21 at 11:01
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@SayaleePote It's a simple `UIImage` and it's working fine, – Sattar Feb 19 '21 at 14:03
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Thanks. I figured the issue I was facing. Do you have any idea why we cannot see - 'Add to Reading list' option even when we are sharing a link through the app? Struggling to find what is the issue. – Sayalee Pote Feb 22 '21 at 07:22
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@SayaleePote What was the issue that you figured out? I'm getting white space around my image as well… Thanks! – Erika Electra Nov 30 '21 at 11:13
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@SayaleePote facing same issue. Could you share a fix? – Artem Zaytsev Sep 05 '22 at 10:01
@ArtemZaytsev I don't remember the exact fix but make sure your image is a simple UIImage object that is assigned to 'let image = UIImage(named: "test")' – Sayalee Pote Oct 09 '22 at 23:52
Does it work in iOS Simulator?, for some reason I don't see thumb image despite setting it. – Evgeny Karkan Jan 30 '23 at 03:22

iOS 13, Custom Image, title and subtitle in the presented UIActivityViewController

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