A Share Extension opening its host app is unsupported on modern iOS (restricted
~iOS 14), so the programmatic bizconnect://share open is silently blocked and the
user just saw a blank flash back to Photos — looking broken even though the files
staged fine.
The extension now shows a small native card after staging: "✓ Ready to send — Open
Biz Connect to choose a chat", with an "Open Biz Connect" button (user-initiated
open has the best chance of working) and a Done button. It still attempts the
auto-open first. Either way the app collects the staged files when next opened, so
the manual path that already works is unchanged — this just removes the "did it
even work?" confusion.
Renamed the local `staged` array to `collected` to free `staged` for the state
flag. Balance + selectors checked. NEEDS A NEW iOS BUILD (native change).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the reverse direction: share FROM Photos/Files/Safari INTO a Biz Connect
conversation. An app can only appear in the iOS share sheet as an app-extension
target, so this is real native work, not a web change.
Pieces:
- mobile/ios-share/ShareViewController.swift: a UI-less Share Extension. It stages
the shared items into the App Group container and opens bizconnect://share. It
deliberately does NOT reimplement the chat picker — that lives in the app, which
already has the chat list, search and upload progress. Appends to the manifest
(never overwrites), so sharing twice before opening the app loses nothing.
- mobile/scripts/add-share-extension.rb: injects the extension target into the
Capacitor-generated Xcode project on every CI build (Codemagic checks out fresh),
using the xcodeproj gem that ships with CocoaPods. Embeds it, sets the bundle id
<app>.share, and MERGES the App Group into the app's entitlements rather than
clobbering them (push's aps-environment must survive). Idempotent.
- mobile/plugins/share-inbox: getPending()/clear() to read that manifest — the App
Group container isn't one of Filesystem's known directories, so it needs a bridge.
- home.html: on bizconnect://share (and every resume, and cold-launch), read the
inbox and show a "Send to…" picker over the chat list; chosen files run the SAME
upload + /api/messages send as an in-app attachment. Reuses convertFileSrc to read
the staged bytes with no base64 marshalling.
- ios-patch.sh registers the bizconnect URL scheme; codemagic.yaml fetches a profile
for the .share bundle id too.
One-time manual gate (CI cannot toggle App capabilities): the App Group
group.com.bizgaze.connect must be created and enabled on both App IDs in the Apple
portal — documented in mobile/IOS_SETUP.md. Without it the two processes can't see
each other's files and sharing silently no-ops; everything else still works.
Validated cross-file: pod-name/jsName/method wiring for all three plugins, App
Group id identical in all 4 files, URL scheme consistent across extension/plist/web,
entitlement-merge preserves push. Needs a new iOS build (new targets + plugins).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sravan