Sharemotion

Overview

Sharemotion, is a lightweight gem for RubyMotion. It provides functions to share text, urls,… on social networks or messages. If you need a full featured library you should use ShareKit.

Setup

Loot at the rakefile and the demo app for fast example

  1. Add facebook plist informations (Rakefile)
app.info_plist['CFBundleURLTypes'] = [{'CFBundleURLSchemes' => ['fbxxxxxxxxxxxxx']}]
app.info_plist['FacebookAppID'] = "xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
  1. Add facebook sdk through pods (Rakefile)
app.pods do
  pod 'Facebook-iOS-SDK'
end
  1. Add frameworks (Rakefile)
app.frameworks += ['MessageUI', 'Twitter']

  1. gem install sharemotion

  2. require 'sharemotion' (Rakefile)

Usage

Getting started

# create the item you want to share
# the basic item can have :title, :url, image(string url), :text, you can override the hash for each sharers
# some sharers have specific fields and some won't use all the base fields, described later

@item = Sharemotion::Item.new({
  :title => "Look at that bro!",
  :url => "http://www.google.fr",
  :image => "http://www.aujardin.ch/photos/tulipe1.jpg",
  :text => "You should watch this site, it's incredible",
  :sharers => {
    :email => {
      :to => ["[email protected]", "[email protected]"],
      :text => "Well you shouldn't..."
    },
    :facebook => {
      :caption => "OHAI",
      :title => "HEY HEY"
    }
  }
})


# define sharers you want to use
# you can override the title of the sharer with a block 
facebook = Sharemotion::SHMFacebook.alloc.initWithItem(@item) {|sharer|
  sharer.sharer_title = "Bookface"
}

sharers = [
  Sharemotion::SHMEmail.alloc.initWithItem(@item),
  Sharemotion::SHMSms.alloc.initWithItem(@item),
  Sharemotion::SHMTwitter.alloc.initWithItem(@item),
  facebook
]

# Init the UIActionSheet with your sharers and display it
@sheet = Sharemotion::Sheet.alloc.initWithSharers(sharers, controller:self)
@sheet.showInView(self.view)

# You can also use a sharer directly
facebook = Sharemotion::SHMFacebook.alloc.initWithItem(@item) 
facebook.share(self)

Documentation on sharers

  • SHMEmail will use :text(string), :title(string), :html(boolean), :cc(array), :bcc(array), :to(array)

  • SHMFacebook will use :url(string), :image(string), :caption(string), :title(string), :text(string)

  • SHMSms will use :text(string), to(array)

  • SHMtwitter will use :text(string), :url(string)

As you can see email and sms accept :to, however, email wants… emails and sms wants phonenumbers so if you want to use both of them with right data you have to use the override hash explained before :

@item = Sharemotion::Item.new({
  :title => "Look at that bro!",
  :url => "http://www.google.fr",
  :image => "http://www.aujardin.ch/photos/tulipe1.jpg",
  :text => "You should watch this site, it's incredible",
  :sharers => {
    :email => {
      :to => ["[email protected]", "[email protected]"],
    },
    :sms => {
      :to => ["06XXXXXXXX", "07XXXXXXXX"]
    }
  }
})

Todo

Better documentation

More tests

More sharers

Twitter < IOS 5.0

Do not require Facebook SDK if you don't use Facebook sharer

Same for frameworks