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Has anyone gotten UIFileSharingEnabled or CFBundleDocumentTypes to work? I added UIFileSharingEnabled as true to my plist and used Apple's example from the link below for CFBundleDocumentTypes, but can't seem to get it to work.

I don't see my app under file sharing in iTunes, and I do not get the option to open documents I registered in my app when I click on them in the mail.app

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/General/Conceptual/iPadProgrammingGuide/CoreApplication/CoreApplication.html

+3  A: 

Carloe,

Open your app-info.plist as a text file. The UIFileSharingEnabled setting should look like this:

<key>UIFileSharingEnabled</key>
<true/>

If you did what I did and added UIFileSharingEnabled in the plist and set its value to YES, your key will look like this:

<key>UIFileSharingEnabled</key>
<string>YES<string/>

After I fixed that key, my app popped right up in the File Sharing section under the Apps tab of iTunes.

Hope that fixes your problem too!

LCombs74
That is the way I had it set. I ended up creating a new project to test the flag, and that worked. Still no luck in my other project tho.
carloe
A: 

I don't know if UIFileSharingEnabled works the way you think it does. Apple is mentioning opening documents from Mail as a 4.0 feature. Setting it should mean your app shows up in the file section of iTunes.

David Dunham
UIFileSharingEnabled, yes. But CFBundleDocumentTypes registers the app as being able to open the specified file formats with the system. Only problem is no one seems to be able to get it to work.
carloe
I can't ask if you tried it in 4.0, because that's under NDA. But given what they publicly said, I don't expect this works in 3.2 (even though the docs imply it should).
David Dunham
A: 

I did what Apple say to do and even synch with iTunes the app build (debug and release), but had no luck. In the process I'm not coping any document in the Documents Directory of the app. Maybe is this the problem.

Okkei, my prev post. I manage how to enable the fle sharing and now I'm doing the file type registration. One only thing is that when I create a new UIDocumentInteractionController and set the URL with the app document directory, it crash. I dont understand why.

DigitalVanilla
+8  A: 

File sharing does work on 3.2, but there is a little bug, you have to remove the application after adding UIFileSharingEnabled to the plist in order to get itunes to refresh and see that the app now supports file sharing (rebooting/disconnecting does not do it).

valexa
A: 

UIFileSharingEnabled affects only when your app is built as 'distribution'. If you build ad-hoc version and install it, you can check your program.

KatokichiSoft
A: 

I can confirm what valexa said: UIFileSharingEnabled started working as soon as I had removed the app from the device. Building & running it on the device afterwards made iTunes recognize the app in the file sharing section of iTunes. So, an ad-hoc or any other 'distribution' build is definitely not needed. HTH!

Erik Abele
A: 

I also confirm Valexa's idea. I use default .plist which shows

 <key>UIFileSharingEnabled</key>
 <true/>

After Removing/Installing several times, iTunes successfully recognized the File Sharing feature with my app.

TrungNL