Saving image to album

DanielKotzer

Hi,

I want to save an image to the album folder on iPhone and Android, it is the folder where all images are stored and you can then view these images, is there a way to do this on Godot?

TwistedTwigleg

I don't know whether this is true or not, but according to this Reddit post, you should be able to save the images in the user:// directory, and for iOS it will go to the Documents folder in the app's sandbox (not sure where it goes on Android).

There is also this GodotShare module that allows for sharing text and/or images in Android and iOS apps. I have not used it myself, but it looks like it could be helpful.

I have not really done much mobile development with Godot, so I'm not sure what is possible or not. Hopefully this is of some help!

DanielKotzer

@TwistedTwigleg said: "for iOS it will go to the Documents folder in the app's sandbox" Question is, is the Documents folder on iOS accessible to other applications like an image editor, or can I at least send the image in a mail?

TwistedTwigleg

@DanielKotzer said:

@TwistedTwigleg said: "for iOS it will go to the Documents folder in the app's sandbox" Question is, is the Documents folder on iOS accessible to other applications like an image editor, or can I at least send the image in a mail?

Good question! I do not know, as I've only done a few brief tests with Godot and mobile devices.

From what I can gather from this page on file management for iOS devices from Apple, it seems iOS applications can expose the documents folder if the app has file sharing enabled. I don't know if you can set file sharing through Godot, but I know in Xcode it should be just turning on a setting, if I recall correctly.

DanielKotzer

@TwistedTwigleg said: I don't know if you can set file sharing through Godot, but I know in Xcode it should be just turning on a setting, if I recall correctly.

Yes, that is the problem, I want to create ipa files with Godot, not with Xcode, and using the GodotShare Module seems too complicated, I wonder if there is a way to edit the ipa file, an ipa file is a zip file, you can open it with winzip, if it is only a settings maybe all I need is to change something in one of the files in the ipa, like the Info.plist file?

TwistedTwigleg

According to the answers on this StackOverflow post, it looks like all you need to do to enable file sharing is set UIFileSharingEnabled to YES in the Info.plist file. The only thing I'm not sure about is whether the app needs to be recompiled or not to adjust for the changes in the Info.plist file. I suppose worse case it doesn't do anything, so I guess it cannot hurt to try?

DanielKotzer

Thank you for the important information, I will try to create and test ipa files soon and will let you know if it worked, maybe you don't have to recompile but only resign the ipa file, we'll see.

DanielKotzer

Today I finally found the time to test exporting to iOS, I thought I can create an ipa file, but even though when you click on export the file type is *.ipa, in the end it exports an Xcode project, which you then take to a mac and make a build with Xcode, did I get it right or am I missing something?

Calinou

@DanielKotzer You will have to build the final application using Xcode, as described in Exporting for iOS.

One-click deploy isn't available for iOS yet. It may take a while to be implemented, since few contributors are knowledgeable with that platform.

DanielKotzer

it is working fine, I build it on Xcode, it is better then having to deal with an ipa file created outside Xcode and gives you error messages when you upload it to iTunes.

syedmohsinbukhari

Hey,
Were you able to do this?