Share a Photo from Your iOS App
Updated:Jul 17, 2022
You can share a photo by using the
FacebookShareKit
framework. This topic shows you how to write the code to share a photo in your app.To share a photo, you will create the objects for the photo to share and then invoke a share method to share the photo. The two objects for the photo are a
SharePhoto
object for the photo and a SharePhotoContent
object as the model for the photo content.After you create the objects, you can share the photo in one of the following ways:
- Message Dialog - a dialog to send content through Messenger.
- Send Button - sends the photo through Messenger.
- Share Dialog - a dialog to share content.
- Share Button - sends the photo by showing the Share Dialog.
This topic shows how to use the Share Dialog.
Due to a limitation with Xcode, you can only test sharing a photo on an iOS device and not in the xCode simulator. Run this this code on a device.
Before You Start
You will need to integrate the
FacebookShareKit
framework from the Facebook SDK for iOS. Learn more
.Add the following
import
statement: import FBSDKShareKit
The
SharePhoto
is the photo that you want to share. Add this code to set the SharePhoto
object to the photo. let photo = SharePhoto(image: image, userGenerated: true)
The
SharePhotoContent
is the model of the photo content you want to share. Add this code for the SharePhotoContent
object. let content = SharePhotoContent()
content.photos = [photo]
Add this code to show the Share Dialog.
let dialog = ShareDialog(
fromViewController: self,
content: content,
delegate: self
)
// Recommended to validate before trying to display the dialog
do {
try dialog.validate()
} catch {
// Handle error
}
dialog.show()
