Suggestions for the app sharing extension

[trix180]

Hello, I'm one of the developers of Bear, a note-taking app for iOS and Mac. Some of our users expressed the intention to start writing a post on Bear and at some point migrate to Wordpress.
Since we are very pro apps integrations, I have spent some time playing with the Wordpress sharing extension as it seems to way to go to accomplish this goal but I found some limitations.
I thought about proposing some improvements that, in my opinion, can be beneficial for any app developer who wants a deeper Wordpress integration.

Expected behavior

These are my propositions for the sharing extension

• I wish the app sharing extension will allow passing the title, tags, and body as a separate "fields". I Think JSON or an NSDictionary can be a way to achieve this.
• Allows passing an attributed or markdown string as the body to preserve the styles used in the source editor
• The text passed as body is not shown as quoted text by default
• A way to pass attachments along with the body and their position inside the original text is preserved inside the preview. NSAttributedString may be useful for this purpose.

Actual behavior

The string passed to sharing extension is shown as a quoted text in the post preview.

Tested on iPhone XR, iOS 12.1.3, WPiOS 11.6

[bummytime]

Howdy @trix180! Thank you for the suggestions — they seem reasonable and worth looking into. Additionally, I've also wanted to explore the use of URL schemes much like Omnifocus has as a path to offer more fine-grained control when creating posts/pages from other apps.

The mobile team strives to be open and cooperative iOS app citizens. Thanks again for this report and feel free to hold us accountable. 😉

[trix180]

Hi @bummytime, Thank you too if I can be of any help feel free to contact me also just for testing.

We are also big fans of URL schemes, in Bear's we use them as an API for operating apps on both iOS and MacOS. I have seen apps with alternative share panels using schemes, but generally speaking, I don't suggest using them for this purpose because they break the standard sharing paradigm iOS people are used to, but Of course, they allow a way better integration with apps.

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