Building Tumblr for iOS

Kind of the director's commentary behind my blog post on iOS 8 share extension issues (http://bryan.io/post/97658826431/what-we-learned-building-the-tumblr-ios-share-extension).

Given at iOSoHo in NYC on Monday, 11/10/2014 (http://www.meetup.com/iOSoho/events/207557752/).

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1. Bryan Irace November 10, 2014 iOSoHo
3. Goal A Tumblr share extension in the App Store on the day that iOS 8 is released
7. Share extensions can’t set the status bar color
9. We couldn’t get background file uploads to work
10. Extension dismisses immediately Photo uploads in background
11. Extension shows progress bar Dismisses once upload completes
12. We couldn’t get file coordination to work
14. Outgoing request store File Extension App Outgoing request store
15. Outgoing request writer File Outgoing request reader Extension App File File File File Directory Outgoing request store
16. You can’t exclude your own share extension from your application’s activity controllers
18. Share extensions only show up if they explicitly support all activity items
19. Application must be opened before extension is, to migrate files into the shared container
20. Image Supports images Activity controller URL String Activity items Share extensions Supports URLs Supports strings
21. Image Supports images, URLs, and strings Activity controller URL String Activity items Share extensions
22. Supports URLs and who cares what else Activity controller URL Activity items Share extensions
23. Breaking your code into libraries will help you build extensions, new apps
24. Core Tumblr Compose UI UIKit dependency No references to UIApplication, etc. Model objects Categories Persistence Tumblr SDK Open source
28. Thank you! @irace tumblr.com/jobs