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Let user pick document type to create when using SwiftUI & DocumentGroup

My document-based app supports several different file types. It is currently written in SwiftUI using a UIDocumentBrowserViewController. I'm trying to convert to the new SwiftUI (v2) DocumentGroup paradigm in which you don't directly use a…
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Selecting folders with UIDocumentBrowserViewController

I'm developing a new app and I would like the user to be able to select a folder from iCloud or an external drive. How can I allow them to select a folder using a UIDocumentBrowserViewController? I have tried setting the allowedContentTypes to the…
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Document browser app in iOS 15 keeps creating iCloud drive folder

I have had a document browser app up since iOS 11 (using UIKit/UIDocumentBrowserViewController). The app (let's call it "MyApp") used to create a "MyApp" folder in iCloud Drive (and/or on the device, depending on the choice made in Settings), where…
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Hide file extension in document based app - DocumentGroup & UIDocumentBrowser

I've been working on a document-based app for well over 12 months now. It's out on the store, and everything is going well so far except for something I have been unable to solve since iOS 13. The built-in file viewer shows all my apps files with…
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Getting a sourceRect for UIActivityViewController from a UIDocumentBrowserViewController

I am trying to add a custom activity to my UIDocumentBrowserController long-tap menu - a UIActivityViewController. The default share activity, when selected, is pointing nicely to the icon of the file that the user just long-tapped. How can I get…
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How to avoid strange behavior when scene-based document mac catalyst app reopens windows on app restart?

I have been struggling to get the mac version of a mac catalyst app to work. This is a scene-based, DocumentBrowserViewController based app that works fine on the iPad. On the Mac, it works fine, except if you close the app when one or more…
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Read files from other apps that shares documents folder, without UIDocumentBrowserViewController

I need some sort of file sharing functionality between two independent apps (cannot use AppGroup or something like that). App1 should send to App2 n documents (n could be hundreds), App2 should elaborate these documents and send back to App1 the…
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Weird display on UIDocumentPickerViewController or UIDocumentBrowserViewController

I recently got stuck on an UI problem that UIDocumentPickerViewController doesn't show correctly. See the picture below. Also, I tried UIDocumentBrowserViewController, got the same result. Has anyone encountered this problem? Demo display on…
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Swift UIDocument saving unreliable

Why is calling .save on an external (iCloud) UIDocument so tricky? :frowning: It either: takes forever and doesn't save, or save operation fails, despite of calling startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() prior to the save call. saves sometimes,…
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What is the best strategy for saving a "Most Recently Used" document list on iOS?

Is there a foolproof way of saving the URL of a UIDocument so an application can resume editing the document on next launch? I have tried various ways of saving the URL, but sometimes the document URL will slightly differ from what is expected. For…
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UIDocumentBrowserViewController app : Refresh no of items in each folder

I am creating an UIDocumentBrowser based app and notice this issue: Say I am viewing these folders:- Folder 1 -> 20 items Folder 2 -> 50 items .... e.g If my app deletes all items in say Folder 2, "50 items" is still listed as in Folder 2. How to…
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How to write files with UIDcomentBrowserViewController

Is where a way to read/write multiple files in UIDocumentBrowserViewController. Recently, I know UIDocumentBrowserViewController as rootViewController can read files. But how to write files. For example, i want to read zip file and then unzip it to…
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Can a SwiftUI document based app show Firestore documents in the SwiftUI document browser directly?

Using Swift 5.3.1, Xcode 12.2, iOS 14.2. Is it possible to directly access Firestore documents from within a DocumentGroup based iOS app? I know that you can show the document browser with iOS 14 and SwiftUI. And it is also able to show iCloud or…
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How to Save video file to iOS Files App using UIDocumentInteractionController

I want to write one or multiple mov/mp4 files to iOS Files App but can not find how to do it with UIDocumentInteractionController. Looking for a sample code to copy files to a subfolder of my app in iOS files app using…
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Make UIDocumentBrowserViewController immediately create new document on first launch

I have a Document Based app working well with UIDocumentBrowserViewController. However, for brand new users who have no documents it's a really confusing first experience to just be launched directly in to a document browser. I have made it detect…
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