Ios Communicate Between App And Extension

Wcsession sendmessage is used to immediately send a message from one app to the other and has optional replyhandler and errorhandler callbacks.

Ios communicate between app and extension. The magic is done via messages written to files in the application s shared app group. Sharing data between an app and safari lets you integrate app content into safari or send web data back to the app enabling a unified experience for a web version and a native version of an app. You can make your own share activity extension or action activity extension.

The documentation states that if the ios app is the. Normally extensions don t communicate to the containing app directly. A safari app extension is uniquely useful because it can communicate with a native app.

App extension make your app appears in the uiactivityviewcontroller like system built in extensions. Ios interprocess communication between apps and extensions. Typically the containing app isn t even running while a contained extension is running.

An app extension s containing app and the host app don t communicate at all.