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On my application, i use UIDocumentPickerViewController to allow the user to pick files (import), but starting from iOS 13 that functionality stop working, basically the document picker is open, but ...
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Method is deprecated from iOS 14, so need support for both iOS 14 and later. And iOS 13 and earlier.
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I have an iOS app that is trying to read files from an external storage device without importing them into the App's sandbox. I have followed Apple's documentations outlined here to do this -- ...
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Is there a way to get All of the different UTType extension types as Strings? I need them specifically for images, audio, and video. I followed this answer, but it doesn't give me all of the ...
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I have a query regarding delegate method not been getting called for DocumentPickerViewController, here's the background, I just need to import the resource whatever available from my Files App and ...
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I am using UIDocumentPickerViewController with the import mode (UIDocumentPickerModeImport) in order to let the user import documents from cloud storage providers (dropbox, etc). Each time the user ...
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I can pick gallery images with UIImagePickerController and documents with UIDocumentPickerViewController. But my question is, is there any way to pick gallery image and pdf documents with same picker? ...
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I'm trying to download the files contained in a folder hierarchy picked by the UIDocumentPickerController. I use the URL I get from documentPicker:DidPickDocumentsAtURLs: with an NSFileCoordinator. ...
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I notice a problem in my UIDocumentPicker's navigation bar at iOS 11 only, the done, cancel, or edit buttons are invisible, and when the user touch it it appears i.e. The color at normal state is ...
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I've got a custom filetype that I'm trying to allow my app to open from a UIDocumentPickerViewController. It isn't, however, working. (A similar situation and problem seem to be described here, but ...
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I'm using UIDocumentPickerViewController to select documents from the Files and upload it to a server. I'm able to successfully access Files, but upon clicking on the file the delegate method doesn't ...
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I have this code in a UIViewController that confirms to UIDocumentPickerDelegate: - (void)openTextFilePicker { NSArray *UTIs = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"public.text", nil]; [self ...
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I want to import a document into my application. I have created a Demo to import Document. A demo is working. below is the code of the Demo to open UIDocumentPickerViewController. -(IBAction) ...
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I have to create feature for upload some document in pdf type and have to show name and file size with file that I selected from UIDocumentPickerViewController 's delegate before upload it. How can I ...
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I am writing a project which involves picking a file and getting the content of the file. However, I think it is not reaching the correct url of the file. Here is the function where it calls the ...
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I use the didPickDocumentAt function to retrieve the url of the picked file in the DocumentPickerViewController. I have a multipart upload function that uses alamofire to upload files to the backend. ...
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I'm using UIDocumentPickerViewController for picking document. Below are the specified UTIs : NSArray *types = @[(NSString*)kUTTypeImage,(NSString*)kUTTypeSpreadsheet,(NSString*)kUTTypePresentation,(...
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I'm trying to use the iOS 14 initForOpeningContentTypes: rather than the deprecated initWithDocumentTypes:inMode: and I'm unable to get access to files with the extension p8 (they are greyed out). I'm ...
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I am trying to get the FileAttributesKey using FileManager in iOS using Swift. When I try that, I am getting the following error" Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The file “Personal%...
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In my iOS app I am opening a UIDocumentPickerViewController to import .sty files (MIDI styles). For this I have declared a custom UTI in Imported UTIs and in Document Types. The problem is that on my ...
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I want to select files from Google drive and One drive cloud services for that purpose I am using UIDocumentPickerViewController ex: func didPressOneDriveChoose() { let importMenu = ...
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Just to give some context, there is an iOS app I'm building (in Xamarin) that requires the ability to fetch files (in an automatic way without having the user to navigate to the files and select them ...
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I want to show most root folder with UIDocumentPickerViewController on presentation. UIDocumentPickerViewController has directoryURL feature. But I can't access the URL i want to access. Example usage ...
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I'm using a document picker to import data into an app. One of the files to import is a .GPX (it's actually an XML file of GPS data, but that's not relevant). I define a custom file type (as it's ...
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I am using a DocumentPickerViewController to import a document in my app. The picker does it's work, there are no bugs and no crashes but every time after a document is picked or the view controller ...
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Is it possible to implement the look and feel of UIDocumentMenuViewController (deprecated in iOS 11) in iOS 11? The closest I found in iOS 11 is UIDocumentPickerViewController but this doesn't allow ...
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I'm trying to open a picker with only certain file types allowed. I'm using this documentation to find the UTType I need: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uniformtypeidentifiers/uttype/...
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Just to clear up a few quick items first: I do not want to open and/or preview the document, as I see a common answer referring users to a dependency for doing that I do not want to select any other ...
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Whenever i pick the file from the iCloud using UIDocumentPickerviewcontroller from my application but it will show this alert on iPhone simulator. NSArray *types = @[(NSString*)kUTTypeArchive]; ...
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I want to show a file picker for choosing a "save to file" location on iOS. The UIDocumentViewPickerController offers the method initWithURL:inMode: (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/...
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I am looking for an alternative export menu other then UIActivityViewController for a Mac Catalyst app. While this works, the user can not choose where they want to save the file (the file is a JSON ...
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As per the documentation, both UIDocumentPickerViewController and UIDocumentBrowserViewController can be used for importing documents outside an apps sandbox. For selecting & importing a document ...
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Am porting over my UIDocumentPickerViewController into SwiftUI and whether I pick a file or cancel the picker I keep getting the error: [DocumentManager] The view service did terminate with error: ...
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Delegate method are not working for UIDocumentPickerViewController from upload action want to load document from simulator for uploading to other action... func uploadFile(){ let ...
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I have been trying to implement a UIDocumentPickerViewController in SwiftUI without much luck. When I present the view in a sheet, all that is there is a blank "recents" tab (as shown below),...
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The application is built for iOS. I want user to choose a file from it's directory and get the url of chosen one. Apple recommends UIDocumentPickerViewController to solve this issue. I wrapped it in ...
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Good day to all. I support the old version of the application written on Objective C . I want to implement a functional - File Browser(File Provider). But using UIDocumentMenuViewController or ...
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I am building a file picker using UIDocumentPickerViewController and I want to pick the following file types only (others needs to be disabled), doc docx pdf gdoc (Google doc file format) txt rtf The ...
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I am trying to choose document from onedrive using uidocumentpickerviewcontroller in my ios App (ios 10.3.3) , i am getting error "selected file not found " , but it's working fine in ios11 . whats ...
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I'm trying to get the selected filename with extension from UIDocumentPickerViewController but the filename has "]" at the end of the file extension. Any suggestion on what is the correct way? Here ...
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I followed a tutorial on getting Url from a Document a user chooses and be able to display it on the View. My problem now is I want to add those Url's into an array. Then get the items from the array ...
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When following the onsite IOS documentation for UIDocumentPickerViewController in Xcode 12.5.1 with IOS 14.5 deployment target I get an error: Incorrect argument label in call (have '...
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I am using following code to import files, if #available(iOS 14, *) { let supportedTypes: [UTType] = [UTType.text, UTType.data] let documentPicker = UIDocumentPickerViewController(...
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According to this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/view_controllers/providing_access_to_directories iOS 13 adds the ability of UIDocumentPickerViewController to select a directory, ...
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How can I use UIDocumentPickerViewController to let the user select a folder from their Dropbox? If I call this, I can browse for folders, but the Dropbox folder is greyed out: [[...
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I am trying to display documents created by my app using the UIDocumentPickerViewController. Is this possible, or do I need to roll my own? Based on my research, it appears that this can't be done, ...
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I'd like to enumerate the files in a directory chosen by the user within a UIDocumentPickerViewController. I get the directory URL returned from the document picker. I call ...
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I have a button in my view controller, when click a button it open a document picker view controller, i have set type like KUTypePDF and KUTypeZipArchive , when i select any of these item from google ...
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In short: I am currently working on an app with which you can scan a QR code. The QR code contains a path to a folder in Apple's own "Files" app. And in this folder I would like to view the ...
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I have the following ViewController that implements functionality for importing files into the app using the UIDocumentPickerViewController: class MyViewController: UIViewController { override ...
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