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share extension .appex file not installing with .app file. Only get to install the containing app

I am not able to add share extension to my app, as it in not getting installed with MIInstaller or MIContainer when i check the logs.

I tried going to a very old commit of my main app(like an year ago- lets say it containing app 2), and share extension was adding up fine.

When i checked the iOS console log

[MIInstaller performInstallationWithError:]: Install Successful; Staging: 0.00s; Waiting: 0.00s; Preflight/Patch: 0.01s, Verifying: 0.00s; Overall: 0.22s

and

[MIContainer makeContainerLiveReplacingContainer:reason:withError:]

Both are working for containing app, but it never runs for extension.

When working with containing app2(old commit app), adding extension

I get

[MIContainer makeContainerLiveReplacingContainer:reason:withError:]: Made container live for com.sentieo.****.sharetestClipper at /Users/abhijeet/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/67BB0468-878B-4216-B092-2B16F5292939/data/Containers/Data/PluginKitPlugin/19C4F695-2B90-49B3-94AA-5AD09C565BA1

this works fine,

Have been debugging this for 3 days now, anything i need to check.

also i did posted another question (Share Extension Not showing up on iPad existing project).

UPDATE

Figured out the root cause of the issue. I am using ckeditor inside my project, which includes plugins folder reference. This "Plugins" folder is same one which needs to be there for installing extesnion. myap.app/plugins/

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Removing plugin folder reference (blue color), i get my extension shows up.

Is there a way to rename this "plugins" folder or is there a way to install extension in seperate plugins folder ?

Solution

  • For anyone looking for answers,

    I just shifted the ckeditor "plugins and other ckeditor folder/file" into a different folder reference "ckeditor" to make way for plugins to install appex files.

    And for ckeditor to still use the folder reference relative, give them the directory path.

    NSString *dataDir = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"ckeditor"]; NSString *filePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"index" ofType:@"html" inDirectory:@"ckeditor"]; NSData *htmlData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:filePath]; NSString *htmlString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:htmlData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; NSString *bundlePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/",dataDir]; [_webView loadHTMLString:htmlString baseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:bundlePath]];