The UIActivity class is an abstract class that you subclass in order to implement application-specific services. A service takes data that is passed to it, does something to that data, and returns the results. For example, a social media service might take whatever text, images, or other content is provided to it and post them to the user’s account. Available in iOS 6.0 and later in UIKit.
The UIActivity class is an abstract class that you subclass in order to implement application-specific services. A service takes data that is passed to it, does something to that data, and returns the results. For example, an social media service might take whatever text, images, or other content is provided to it and post them to the user’s account. Activity objects are used in conjunction with a UIActivityViewController object, which is responsible for presenting services to the user.
You should subclass UIActivity only if you want to provide custom services to the user. The system already provides support for many standard services and makes them available through the UIActivityViewController object. For example, the standard activity view controller supports emailing data, posting items to one of the user’s social media accounts, and several other options. You do not have to provide custom services for any of the built-in types.
Subclassing Notes
This class must be subclassed before it can be used. The job of an activity object is to act on the data provided to it and to provide some meta information that iOS can display to the user. For more complex services, an activity object can also display a custom user interface and use it to gather additional information from the user.
