Question

I have a requirement to enable/disable file sharing from with in the App. My iPhone app which shares all the data in the documents to let user to take a backup of the data from iTunes so that he can restore it later. I know that i can achieve this by changing the app info.plist to enable/disable the iTunes file sharing, but as i have to disable/enable it from within the App i.e from App settings screen.

Please suggest me that how to achieve this functionality.

Thanks for you answer.

Answer 1

It’s not possible to do it through code on run time. There is a trick to do it but it’s can be only good if you don’t have much data to to share. Enable file sharing in plist. Then put all files in a folder name like “Share” then put a switch in UI, when user turn off switch then rename this folder like this “.Share” then it will be hidden and no longer available for sharing.

Note : It’s a trick not a good way but it works when you needed it hardly.