iOS in-app Safari sharing extension stability, missing title

problem
#1

The sharing extension experience seems to be different when invoked from the in-app Safari browser:

  1. The page title will not be included in e.g. the standard Twitter sharing extension
  2. The share dialog will often disappear after a second or two. This seems to happen on heavier sites (e.g. theverge.com) so perhaps it’s related to something like a network event callback?

Latest version of the iOS app on the latest iOS on an iPhone 6S+

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#2

Umm, what? We haven’t launched the sharing extension. It’s in a separate branch but it isn’t released yet. Can you post a screenshot of what you’re describing?

#3

Sorry for the confusion – I meant sharing things from within Newsblur itself. The behavior is different from the article view and the embedded Safari – https://www.dropbox.com/s/avtouzm215b…

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uxmifnclu7l…

#4

The (existing) sharing behavior is in your first screenshot.  The 2nd screenshot is what you get when sharing from in-app Safari - it does include a URL reference, but it’s in a separate item so it shows up as a page preview on the right - but no title.

The changes I made last week (which haven’t been merged yet, https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/pull/923) will produce something a bit halfway between, when sharing from NewsBlur proper - you’ll still get the page title but with the URL as a reference rather than text, which will mean you’ll see a little page thumbnail.

Unfortunately, I think the behavior you’re seeing where the Twitter share extension doesn’t get a page title is a Safari View Controller bug, since the full version of Safari doesn’t behave the same way.  The in-app Safari that NewsBlur uses is a bit of a black box - we can’t control much if anything of what happens inside it.  Report a bug to Apple…

I couldn’t reproduce #2 but my guess is it may be an iOS bug as well.