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Reduce share extension crashes from your app with this one weird trick!

Tim Johnsen

Update: after talking with the developer of Ivory about this we found that it's a flaw in the way…

Update: after talking with the developer of Ivory about this we found that it's a flaw in the way the OS handles passing data from apps to extensions. There's very little / nothing share extension developers can do to fix this themselves. I reported a bug to Apple (FB11930921) about this and wrote a demo project https://github.com/timonus/ShareExtensionMemoryBug.

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Published in iOS App Development

·Dec 16, 2022

Reduce share extension crashes from your app with this one weird trick!

My app Close-up lets people capture daily selfies and create time lapse videos and animated GIFs from them. Naturally, the ability to share these photos, videos, and GIFs is core functionality the app provides. …

I OS

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Reduce share extension crashes from your app with this one weird trick!

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Published in Instagram Engineering

·Oct 8, 2019

Implementing Dark Mode in iOS 13

One of the most exciting announcements at WWDC this year was the introduction of platform-wide dark mode in iOS 13. During WWDC a group of enthusiastic iOS engineers and designers from Instagram’s design systems team banded together to begin plotting out what it would take to adopt dark mode in…

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Sep 19, 2019

What’s New in Opener 1.8

Opener 1.8 is made for iOS 13! First and foremost, that means full support for dark mode throughout the app. iOS 13 also introduces a nice new visual table view style that Opener’s adopted on the iPad, and it looks great

Apple

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Apple

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Dec 7, 2018

Opener 1.7

Today I’m launching Opener 1.7, the latest and greatest update to the handy link opening utility for iOS. This update includes one oft-requested feature and some solid refinements. Quick browser switching Since the introduction of browser support in Opener 1.1 I’ve received repeated feedback that browser switching isn’t discoverable, and that for people…

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Published in iOS App Development

·Aug 6, 2018

Extending UIActivityViewController

UIActivityViewController, the standard iOS share menu or “share sheet,” was introduced way back in iOS 6. In iOS 8 it was made significantly more valuable to iOS developers with the addition of share extensions and action extensions. …

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Jun 1, 2018

Three Years of Opener

Today is Opener’s third birthday! 🎂 Inspired by a recent post from the developers of Halide and as a follow up to last year’s post, I thought I’d write up a little year in review. Launches Opener’s steadily grown and developed over the past year. …

Apple

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Apple

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Mar 20, 2018

Burst for iPhone

Today I’m launching a little app named Burst on the App Store. Burst lets you quickly and easily turn photo bursts taken with the iPhone’s Camera app into looping videos and GIFs. When you launch the app, you’ll see a carousel of the bursts you’ve taken. …

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Sep 20, 2017

What’s new in Opener 1.4

iOS 11 is here, and along with it we’ve got a sweet update for Opener ready! Opener 1.4 is available today, here’s what’s new. A little facelift Let’s get the obvious out of the way first. I’m no designer, and some people have complained about the design for Opener’s icon over the years…

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Jun 1, 2017

Opener Turns Two

Two years ago today I launched Opener for iOS, and since then I’ve been steadily advancing and improving it. I’m incredibly proud of this app, and it’s been fun to watch it grow. There’s a small update to Opener out today that enhances its 3D Touch support, allowing you to…

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