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
   

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3. Goal
   A Tumblr share extension in the App
   Store on the day that iOS 8 is
   released
   

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7. Share extensions can’t set the status
   bar color
   

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9. We couldn’t get background file
   uploads to work
   

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10. Extension
    dismisses
    immediately
    Photo
    uploads in
    background
    

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11. Extension shows
    progress bar
    Dismisses
    once
    upload
    completes
    

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12. We couldn’t get file coordination
    to work
    

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14. Outgoing request
    store
    File
    Extension App
    Outgoing request
    store
    

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15. Outgoing
    request writer
    File
    Outgoing
    request
    reader
    Extension App
    File
    File
    File
    File
    Directory Outgoing
    request store
    

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16. You can’t exclude your own share
    extension from your application’s
    activity controllers
    

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18. Share extensions only show up if they
    explicitly support all activity items
    

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19. Application must be opened before
    extension is, to migrate files into the
    shared container
    

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20. Image
    Supports
    images
    Activity
    controller
    URL
    String
    Activity items Share extensions
    Supports URLs
    Supports
    strings
    

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21. Image
    Supports
    images, URLs,
    and strings
    Activity
    controller
    URL
    String
    Activity items Share extensions
    

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22. Supports URLs
    and who cares
    what else
    Activity
    controller
    URL
    Activity items Share extensions
    

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23. Breaking your code into libraries will
    help you build extensions, new apps
    

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24. Core Tumblr
    Compose UI
    UIKit dependency
    No references to UIApplication, etc.
    Model objects
    Categories
    Persistence
    Tumblr SDK
    Open source
    

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28. Thank you!
    @irace
    tumblr.com/jobs
    

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