Question

I’m building an app that allows the user to export en import data files and send them by e-mail.

So I’ve created a data file type with extension “.myAppExtension”.

At first time everythings goes well. I can’t export and send an e-mail. And when I open the e-mail, the method does work.

-(BOOL) application:(UIApplication *)application handleOpenURL:(NSURL *)url {

if (url != nil && [url isFileURL]) {
    NSLog(@"%@",url);
    NSLog(@"%@",[url pathExtension]);

    if([[[url pathExtension] lowercaseString] isEqualToString:[@"myAppExtension"  lowercaseString]]){
        //Deal with received file 

        UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Export ok" message:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"This file has been added : %@",[url lastPathComponent]] delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"Ok" otherButtonTitles:nil,nil];
        [alert show];
    }else{

        UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Export failed" message:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"This extention is not supported : %@",[url pathExtension]] delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"Ok" otherButtonTitles:nil,nil];
        [alert show];
    }

}
return YES;
}

My issue is that when I want to export an other type of file with extension “otherExtension”. I did not create data type for this extension in my app.

So I export and send an e-mail with this second type of file. The file name showed in e-mail “file.otherExtension”. But, this is the issue, when I tap this mail attachement the e-mail app offers me to open it in my application. That’s not what I want and, as I said, I did not create the data type for “otherExtension”.

Edit : This is how I created the file type in myApp-info.plist :

Answer 1

If someone is interested, the issue were from the send e-mail fonction.

MFMailComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init] ;
[picker setSubject:mailSubject];
[picker addAttachmentData:codedData mimeType:@"application/myApp" fileName:[filePath lastPathComponent]];
[picker setToRecipients:[NSArray array]];
[picker setMessageBody:mailBody isHTML:NO];
[picker setMailComposeDelegate:self];
[currentMainViewController presentViewController:picker animated:YES completion:nil];

By adding the mime type to mail attachment the receiving application was using it to read the file. Replacing the mime type by “nil” solved my issue.

[picker addAttachmentData:codedData mimeType:nil fileName:[filePath lastPathComponent]];