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paparoch
paparoch

Reputation: 450

file chooser in IOS

I am trying to make an application that open different office document for iphone. Iam new to IOS development. I want to ask if there is something similar to file chooser dialog box as one get open when we click open file on our desktop.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5738

Answers (1)

fabian789
fabian789

Reputation: 8412

Nope, you have to fetch the files in a folder using NSFileManager and fill a UITableView. You can for instance use -contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:error:. See more in the NSFileManager Class Reference.

Some code:

//  Getting Files at "directory"
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSFileManager *manager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
    NSArray *files = [manager contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:directory error:&error];

//  Iterating through files looking for certain file extensions
//  _fileTypes_ is an array of extensions, e.g. [NSArray arrayWithObject:@"txt"];
    for (NSString *fileName in files) 
    {
        if ([_fileTypes_ containsObject:[fileName.pathExtension lowercaseString]]) 
        {
            // Do something with fileName, e.g. adding it to an array and showing it lager in a UITableView
        }
    }

Upvotes: 3

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