Breaking changes #

• Requires Flutter 3.38 or newer.
• iOS: Apps must now adopt a SceneDelegate for the new UIScene lifecycle — see the README and the official guide.
• iOS: Now uses Swift Package Manager only (the CocoaPods podspec was removed). Enable it with flutter config --enable-swift-package-manager and link the receive-sharing-intent product in your Share Extension.
• iOS: The Share Extension compose UI was rebuilt (see below). presentationAnimationDidFinish(), navigationTitle and characterLimit were removed — use the new override hooks instead.
• iOS: Minimum deployment target raised to iOS 13.0.

iOS — new Share Extension compose UI #

• RSIShareViewController no longer subclasses the deprecated SLComposeServiceViewController; it's now a plain UIViewController following Apple's modern model.
• shouldAutoRedirect() == true (default): no UI is shown — the old flash of the dimmed white system sheet is gone and the extension redirects straight into the host app.
• shouldAutoRedirect() == false: a built-in compose sheet (RSIComposeView) is shown — a bottom card with a grabber, circular close button, "Send" button, an auto-focused message field and a thumbnail preview of the first shared item. Tapping the dimmed backdrop cancels.
• Customise it by overriding placeholder, sendButtonTitle, contentText, isContentValid(), didSelectPost(), didSelectCancel(), cancel() or saveAndRedirect(message:).

iOS — other #

• Adopted Apple's UIScene lifecycle: the plugin conforms to FlutterSceneLifeCycleDelegate, registers via addSceneDelegate, and handles shared URLs through the scene delegate.
• Consolidated into a single ReceiveSharingIntentPlugin Swift class (the Objective-C bridge is gone). SwiftReceiveSharingIntentPlugin remains as a backward-compatible type alias.

Android #

• Migrated to Flutter's Built-in Kotlin: the plugin no longer applies the Kotlin Gradle Plugin (KGP) itself — Flutter's Gradle plugin applies kotlin-android automatically. This silences the upcoming KGP deprecation warning and keeps the plugin building on future Flutter versions.
• Upgraded Android Gradle Plugin to 9.2.1, Gradle to 9.4.1 and Kotlin to 2.4.0.
• Bumped compileSdk to 37, raised minSdk to 21 and migrated to the modern Kotlin compilerOptions DSL (JVM target 17).

• Fixed sharing not working on iOS 18

• Added support for cached images on iOS such as shared images from a Screenshot.

• Added ReceiveSharingIntent.setMockValues method to set mock values for testing purposes.

ReceiveSharingIntent.setMockValues(
      initialMedia: [],
      mediaStream: Stream.empty(),
    );

Breaking change #

• Use instance getter i.e. ReceiveSharingIntent.instance.getInitialMedia() instead of ReceiveSharingIntent.getInitialMedia()

• Fix sometimes file doesn't exist error on iOS

• Fix sharing url not working on iOS

• Fix compatibility issue with Android SDK <33

• Update deprecated API usage in Android

• Added a flag to disable the automatic closing of the share extension after sharing.

class ShareViewController: RSIShareViewController {
    
    // Use this method to return false if you don't want to redirect to host app automatically.
    // Default is true
    override func shouldAutoRedirect() -> Bool {
        return false
    }
    
}

• Added new field message to the SharedMediaFile class.

• Updated readme iOS section, rearranged the steps to properly setup the plugin and added a new step #7

• Requires Swift 5.0
• Fix backward compatibility down to iOS 8.0
• Use UTType for iOS 14.0 and above

• Stop using UTType because it doesn't exist prior to iOS 14.0

Breaking changes #

• All files types now come through getInitialMedia and getMediaStream
• Your ShareViewController class should now inherit from RSIShareViewController. Eliminating the need to copy the whole class again. Please check the example project for more details.
• Removed getInitialText, getInitialTextAsUri, getTextStream and getTextStreamAsUri methods. Please use getInitialMedia and getMediaStream instead.

• Fix broken links in readme

• Update readme
• Code refactor, remove unnecessary semicolon and initialization of optional fields

• Fix wrong file path on iOS

• Update plugin's iOS build version

• Add support for custom group ID for iOS
• Update android gradle build tools to 7.3.1
• Replace deprecated jcenter with mavenCentral
• Update android to use compileSdkVersion 34

• Update android to use compileSdkVersion 30

• Enabled null safety
• Fix frozen app after sharing. Fix requires you to update your Sharing Extension Class (Check example project)
• Fix regression regarding link propagation

• Fix suppressed link propagation to other modules on iOS

• Migrate to flutter android embedding v2
• Fix crash while getting raw files path on Android

• Preserve original file name

Note. Updating your Sharing Extension Class is required (please check that in the example project)

• Added support for sharing any type of file

Breaking changes #

• In your project ios/Runner/Info.plist please change 'SharePhotos' to 'ShareMedia' as follows

    <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
    <array>
    	<string>ShareMedia</string>

• Fixed the >= 4.2 Swift compiler parsing errors

• Fix Some photos and videos have wrong extension names
• Fix sharing dialog doesn't close properly

Note. Both fixes require you to update your Sharing Extension Class (please check that in the example project)

• Remove unnecessary code

• Fixed iOS 13 bugs

• Video support.

Breaking changes #

Updated #

• ShareViewController.swift Please copy the whole class again as there are many code changes.
• getInitialImage changed to getInitialMedia for images and videos
• getImageStream changed to getMediaStream for images and videos
• both getInitialMedia and getMediaStream now return video duration and thumbnail along with the shared file path

Removed #

• getInitialImageAsUri
• getImageStreamAsUri

• New method added to reset the already consumed callbacks

• Example project updated. Check the method [handleImages] in example/Sharing Extension/ShareViewController.swift
• Fix some images are not successfully shared on iOS

• Add screen recorded demo

• Fix sharing image does not work sometimes on iOS and on Android when sharing from google photos (cloud)

• Return absolute path for images instead of a reference that can be used directly with File.dart
• Refactor code

• Bug fixes and updated api name

• Add support for urls

• Remove un-necessary jar libraries

• Fix issue where sharing in iOS simulator does not work