We can already successfully generate and share a single slide image from Year in Review V2. For V3, we want a "Share entire review' button. With this spike we want to investigate if it's possible to generate multiple images from that button (this would be a snapshot of each slide in the review), and share them to a social media platform like Instagram from the share sheet. Document any difficulties, or if successful, take a screencast of the behavior to demo to Product.
Timebox: 2 days
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | HNordeenWMF | T382442 [Epic] iOS Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 (V3) | |||
| Resolved | GOlson-WMF | T402411 [Spike] Investigate sharing entire review |
We can very easily add something like this code block below
func handleShareAll() {
var snapshots: [UIImage] = []
for slide in slides {
switch slide {
case .standard(let viewModel):
let view = WMFYearInReviewSlideStandardShareableView(viewModel: viewModel, hashtag: hashtag)
snapshots.append(view.snapshot())
case .location:
// todo
break
}
}
coordinatorDelegate?.handleYearInReviewAction(.shareAll(images: snapshots))
}All this does is iterate through all of the slides, create the view, then does the shareAll action I created.
case .shareAll(let images):
guard let viewModel else { return }
let contentProvider = YiRShareActivityContentProvider(
text: viewModel.localizedStrings.shareText,
appStoreURL: viewModel.shareLink,
hashtag: viewModel.hashtag
)
let imageProviders = images.map {
ShareAFactActivityImageItemProvider(image: $0)
}
let activityItems: [Any] = [contentProvider] + imageProviders
let activityController = UIActivityViewController(
activityItems: activityItems,
applicationActivities: nil
)
activityController.excludedActivityTypes = [.print, .assignToContact, .addToReadingList]
if let visibleVC = self.navigationController.visibleViewController {
if let popover = activityController.popoverPresentationController {
popover.sourceRect = visibleVC.view.bounds
popover.sourceView = visibleVC.view
popover.permittedArrowDirections = []
}
visibleVC.present(activityController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}This copies the individual code for creating one image, but creates multiple.
A lot of sharing capabilities seem to come 'for free' here, at least for Instagram, and I would assume that it would work with other popular apps as well.
see video here