Sharing PDF on IOS fails - file received but doesnot exists

[eliaweiss]

See more info in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66256974/receive-share-file-intents-with-flutter-with-ios

When sharing a PDF file,
I was able to receive the file intent in the App but couldn't open the file:

print("$path, exist ${await io.File(path).exists()}");

I was able to print the path but the exists method return false

NOTE:

1. works with no issues in android
2. works with no issues in IOS when sharing an image
3. only fails with files (PDF)

[LazyDave76]

i've fired in a PR to try and fix this issue (#137)

try adding this to your pubspec.yaml file...

receive_sharing_intent:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/LazyDave76/receive_sharing_intent.git

[petodavid]

Hi, did you find a solution?

[petodavid]

i've fired in a PR to try and fix this issue (#137)

try adding this to your pubspec.yaml file...

receive_sharing_intent:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/LazyDave76/receive_sharing_intent.git

Does it fix PDF opening on iOS?

[yurisasc]

@petodavid Yes, that pull request fixes the PDF opening issue on iOS. If you see the changes, @LazyDave76 did a brilliant hack on removing the "file://" prefix on the file path.

[JanikoNaber]

Thank you @LazyDave76 for your fix. It works for me to open xml files. Is there any chance to see that fix in the next release on pub.dev?

[LazyDave76]

Thank you @LazyDave76 for your fix. It works for me to open xml files. Is there any chance to see that fix in the next release on pub.dev?

@KasemJaffer needs to merge this PR or copy my change into master before it will be released. Have asked for it to be merged again.

[LazyDave76]

Thank you @LazyDave76 for your fix. It works for me to open xml files. Is there any chance to see that fix in the next release on pub.dev?

@KasemJaffer needs to merge this PR or copy my change into master before it will be released. Have asked for it to be merged again.

[mobikats]

I'm running into this now.

I have modified the SharedMediaFile path entry to remove the leading "file://", but it still can't open the PDF file.
Images etc work fine. I am sharing from the Files app on iOS.

flutter: FileSystemException: Cannot retrieve length of file, path = '/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/25C349AB-60EA-43FB-8C2E-F9B79F16530A/Screenshot%202021-03-22%20at%2014.13.28.pdf' (OS Error: No such file or directory, errno = 2)

Did you solve it in the end?

[eliaweiss]

No I didn't

[mobikats]

Ok fixed it - it's because flutter doesn't like the path to be URL encoded, but iOS typically does (or this package does convert), so my workaround was to decode the URL encoding manually before trying to open the file, that works.
(Also remove the leading "file://" as mentioned above). Hope this helps somebody.

[gerken-tss]

@mobikats

Wow, this is amazingly ugly. Does this mean, I have to make two hard coded changes to the URL and also wrap this logic into a block that is only executed if the platform is iOS? And all this only for PDF files?
Damn, why is this plugin not maintained anymore? This sucks!

Have you also tried #37? Does it work? Or is it even worth changing to the share_handler package?