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T.Tehranchi
T.Tehranchi

Reputation: 15

Share a message with telegram within iOS app (Swift)

I'm developing an iOS app with swift and I need to share a message with the telegram app when a button is pressed. I want the user to choose which contact he/she wants to share the message with.

I've tried the "tg://msg?text=" schema but it only opens telegram not the sharing page to choose a contact.

Does anyone know a way for doing this?

Thank you in advance for your help !

Answer:

As @Cesare pointed out the tg://msg?text=test URL had been disabled by telegram so we need a specific phone number to share the message with.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4751

Answers (2)

Léo Natan
Léo Natan

Reputation: 57060

Another solution would be to use something like my LNExtensionExecutor, which allows you to bypass the UIActivityViewController and execute the standard Telegram (or any other) share extension, providing text and/or images as input items.

Upvotes: 1

Cesare
Cesare

Reputation: 9419

Telegram disabled the tg://msg?text=test URI. You can only send direct messages to pre-chosen users or contacts.

So you may want to present a standard contact list and then send a message to that phone number (assuming they have Telegram).

For sure if you use a UIActivityController that should work.

@objc func didSelectShareRow() {
    let text = "Hello"
    let textShare = [text]
    let activityViewController = UIActivityViewController(activityItems: textShare , applicationActivities: nil)
    activityViewController.popoverPresentationController?.sourceView = self.view
    self.present(activityViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

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Upvotes: 1

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