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janines77256686
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March 29, 2017
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post to instagram

  • March 29, 2017
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Are there any extensions or plugins that we can use to automatically post a picture to an instagram account?

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janines77256686Author
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October 30, 2017

yeah i have instagram installed and it doesn't show up in more

the image will share to email, and Facebook etc so i can see it works, just instragm doesn't appear

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
October 30, 2017

I tried an app I updated recently to AIR 27, but I haven't updated GoViral in a while. It's possible my subscription has expired, I haven't seen any update messages in nearly two years. In any case, I see the same thing, sharing from Photos has Instagram, but sharing from GoViral doesn't.

Assuming you're up to date with GoViral you could ask them why it is that Instagram is missing. If the answer is that there's a new version that fixes it, can you let me know?

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janines77256686Author
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October 30, 2017

yeah i have the latest version 5.6 - maybe its an iOS 11 thing they've not yet fixed. Ive sent them a message

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janines77256686Author
Known Participant
March 30, 2017

I'll need to update my goviral ane as it's from 2014

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
March 30, 2017

Did that not already have shareGenericMessageWithImage()?

I can't easily test that myself today. Meetings and so on.

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janines77256686Author
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March 30, 2017

it just doesn't work with animate 2017 at all, says i need to update

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janines77256686Author
Known Participant
March 30, 2017

Lol

so from what I understand by encoding the bitmapdata to a jpg but naming it igo only Instagram will show because an igo file is an Instagram only file name.

Have a look here

https://github.com/sharkhack/ShareWithInstagram

"Alternatively, if you want to show only Instagram in the application list (instead of Instagram plus any other public/jpeg-conforming apps) you can specify the extension class igo, which is of type com.instagram.exclusivegram.”

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
March 30, 2017

I don't know. Hopefully it may help. You should be able to test with your version of GoViral.

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janines77256686Author
Known Participant
March 30, 2017

I had a look aroudn and at that davikingcode one and it seems they all open the sharing sheet but the problem is the other options are there.

my app will be a public kiosk style app and i just want to restrict sharing to instagram only on ios. Ideally I could just press a button in my app and the instagram sharing sheet appears skipping the sharing strip step altogether.

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
March 29, 2017

With Milkman Games GoViral ANE you can do a lot of other things, but one easy thing it does is let you send an image to the sharing service. If the user has Instagram they can choose that from the list, but they can also email or post to Facebook and Twitter, and many other destinations.

GoViral Facebook and Sharing Native Extension for Adobe AIR - ANEs by Milkman Games

I don't see an option for Instagram on Android, just iOS, but that may be a setting I haven't done.

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    janines77256686Author
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    March 29, 2017

    Hi colin

    i dont see a mention of instagram from that page? that was the first place i looked - i do have a version of goviral from a few years ago

    Colin Holgate
    Colin Holgate
    Inspiring
    March 29, 2017

    Their ANE just exposes the system sharing. It was only recently that Apple added Instagram to the sharing options, so they may not have mentioned it because of that.

    I did just try on Android, and at first it didn't work, but on a second attempt Instagram did appear in the list. This is with GoViral from at least a couple of years ago. GoViral isn't able to disable sharing options, so if you have a version that can trigger the OS sharing, you should get Instagram ok.

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