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Élodie Petit
Élodie Petit

Reputation: 5914

Unknown activity items supplied for ActivityViewController

I am trying to share videos from my app using a UIActivityViewController. Below is the code I use:

var url = NSURL(string: path!)!
var activityViewController = UIActivityViewController(activityItems: [url], applicationActivities: nil)

self.presentViewController(activityViewController, animated: true, completion: { () -> Void in })

The path points to a valid .mov file so no problems there. When I present the activity view controller I get the error: Unknown activity items supplied with the path to the .mov file and the sharing options only show AirDrop.

The app is running on iOS 8.

Any ideas?

EDIT I found out that when I save the video to camera roll. the user can share it with Photos app to any app. So there's nothing wrong with the video format I guess.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 770

Answers (3)

danfordham
danfordham

Reputation: 978

I had a similar issue for a zip file and realised the url path I was passing was relative and not an absolute path. In other words, UIActivityViewController urls require the prefix file:///

I was using a relative path because the third party library Objective-Zip needs a relative path to create zip files.

Works: file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/63284C22-6E22-4865-965C-3B67F58D0659/tmp/myfile.zip

Doesn't work: /private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/63284C22-6E22-4865-965C-3B67F58D0659/tmp/myfile.zip

Upvotes: 0

gabbler
gabbler

Reputation: 13766

You should use init?(fileURLWithPath path: String, isDirectory isDir: Bool) if the movie is in resource bundle.

If you use imagePicker controller to select the video, you can get the url from info dictionary using the key UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL, the corresponding delegate method is didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo.

Upvotes: 1

NSSakly
NSSakly

Reputation: 209

Try this : 

var activityViewController = UIActivityViewController(activityItems: [path], applicationActivities: nil)
self.presentViewController(activityViewController, animated: true, completion: { () -> Void in })

Upvotes: 0

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