Closed sumairasaeed closed 7 years ago
Looked and investigated whatsapp feature of attaching URL. Thought over how we can implement it in a similar way as whatsapp There are two parts of sharing URL in whatsapp:
1- Detecting from text view that a URL has been typed.
2- After detecting that URL has been typed, fetch some basic metadata about webpage. e.g. Title , basic info, URL , logo etc.
3- URL needs to be linked to a webpage and must be clickable and open up the relevant webpage.
Here is the link that talks about this feature of whatsapp http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/10/14/whatsapp-2-12-312-starts-showing-rich-previews-for-shared-urls/ (Although this link talks about android but it is similar on iOS)
I have explored on detecting URL from text view. Also investigated on fetching metadata of URL at realtime while typing. Found few open source libraries for this purpose. Here is the link https://github.com/LeonardoCardoso/SwiftLinkPreview
Working to write logic for implementing above described steps: 1- Detecting from text view that a URL has been typed. 2- After detecting that URL has been typed, fetch some basic metadata about webpage. e.g. Title , basic info, URL , logo etc. 3- URL needs to be linked to a webpage and must be clickable and open up the relevant webpage.
Have opened a seperate task to do its UI work as whatsapp UI is rich and we will make same. https://github.com/Cloudkibo/iOS/issues/555
I have completed the coding for this. Now we are able to share and detect URL/URLs shared and fetch its metadata from URL at runtime while typing as whatsapp.
Thanks
I do not understand why we are opening another issue #555? and how did we tested this without UI?
Write logic to attach URL in chat as whatsapp. URL should be clickable and should open that URL