#uiactivity

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[whiskmobile-blog]

SBBAnimatedTweetActivity

Whilst developing the new GIF preview functionality in CLIP+, I discovered that the built-in Twitter UIActivity would not post animated GIFs. It accepts the GIF's NSData perfectly happily, but then posts a static image - whereas posting the same NSData via the Messages UIActivity results in an animated GIF as expected.

Ease of sharing animated GIFs was a major reason to implement this new functionality in the first place, so I needed to come up with another option - that's where SBBAnimatedTweetActivity comes in.

SBBAnimatedTweetActivity is open-source, and has been released as a Cocoapod.

[objectivesea]

PhotoDog

My new app PhotoDog was approved late last night! I've spent much of the day sending out press releases, and organizing my social media presence (Instagram and Twitter accounts, mostly). I won't write much about that here, as this blog is mostly for technical details, but one thing I've very proud of is that this marks the first production app that uses my UIActivity for Instagram. Presumably someone else has used it, it's got a respectable number of stars and forks on GitHub, but this is the first App Store app using it that I know of.

I'll be glad to see it get some battle-testing. :)

[uiactivities]

ZYActivity - An easier to inherit UIActivity

Source: https://github.com/marianoabdala/ZYActivity Author: marianoabdala Description: Extending the UIActivity isn't the most convenient way. By inheriting from this class you'll find that activityType is taken care of and that the storing of the activity items and the execution of the action happens in one step, so instead of prepareWithActivityItems:, performActivity and activityViewController you now only have performWithActivityItems:.

[i0sdev]

> GSDropboxActivity is an iOS 6 UIActivity subclass for uploading to Dropbox. > [github.com/goosoftware](https://github.com/goosoftware/GSDropboxActivity)

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TUSafariActivity

Services: -

Source: https://github.com/davbeck/TUSafariActivity Author: davbeck Description: TUSafariActivity is a UIActivity subclass that provides an "Open In Safari" action to a UIActivityViewController.

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GSDropboxActivity

Services: GSDropboxActivity

Source: https://github.com/goosoftware/GSDropboxActivity Author: goosoftware Description: An iOS 6 UIActivity subclass for uploading to Dropbox.