Sharing GIF on iOS

[hippogamesunity]

Hi! As you said me in email, "I was able to share gifs with only half of the apps in the share sheet". That's why you decided to share static images on iOS.
Maybe you could add a parameter or a overriding call to unlock the feature for sharing GIFs on iOS?
Having such feature would be very useful for me even if I could share it with not all apps from a list. Thanks!

[yasirkula]

Thanks for opening this issue. I'll add a link to it as a workaround for this issue in README.

To support animated gif files on iOS, simply remove these 4 lines from NativeShare.mm:

UnityNativeShare/Plugins/NativeShare/iOS/NativeShare.mm

Lines 20 to 23 in ae2e13d

	UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:filePath];
	if( image != nil )
	[items addObject:image];
	else

I don't want to add a parameter for this because after this change, some apps just stop accepting the gif file as an attachment. They won't even accept it as a static image whereas at its current state, they do accept gif files as static image attachments. So, I'd prefer this solution to be a "use at your own risk" workaround rather than an official part of the plugin.

[hippogamesunity]

Cool, thanks! I'll check it!

[hippogamesunity]

I was able to test the new build of Pixel Studio.
I was not able to reproduce your issue. Can you provide the reproduction steps to the issue you are talking about?
I can share GIF with Gmail and also save it to iOS Photos with Share dialog. In both cases I get animated GIF. If I share it to Facebook, it becomes a static image on my wall.

[yasirkula]

It didn't work for some of these apps: Twitter, Facebook Messenger and/or the mail app. I can't remember which one(s) exactly :/

[hippogamesunity]

Yes, it doesn't work with Messenger as I suppose it doesn't support GIF.
But it works wit Facebook, but Facebook will contert it to static image.
Didn't try Twitter yet.

[Rajat-Parihar]

hello , sorry for my noob question but

UnityNativeShare/Plugins/NativeShare/iOS/NativeShare.mm
i dint find that in my project

[hippogamesunity]

@Rajat-Parihar why no to use search?)
Assets\GifAssets\NativeShare\Plugins\iOS\NativeShare.mm

PS. This question relates to my asset GIF Replay.

[yasirkula]

NativeShare.mm is located at Assets/Plugins/NativeShare/iOS/NativeShare.mm, if you import NativeShare.unitypackage to your project.

[Rajat-Parihar]

Thanks for your support guys,
I remove those 4 lines for NativeShare.mm file
but still can not share gif file through whats app

[yosun]

Hi! Can you explain more about the issue of gif share only as static images? Is this due to the format that NativeGallery writes it in?

[yasirkula]

While trying to share an animated gif file, as far as I remember, sharing on Facebook and/or Twitter didn't work for me. But using a UIImage to share the gif as a static image did work for those social platforms. So I used UIImage for maximum compatibility in NativeShare.

[magnitocorp]

Hi Yasirkula,
Thanks for sharing your plugin. I just wondering, is there a way I can get a callback if the sharing was successful? so I can give a reward if the users really shared the content. Thanks.

[yasirkula]

@magnitocorp Please see #5