Integrate with Office from iOS applications

Question

We want our app to be able to open an Excel document in the Excel app for editing and then be able to come back and see the changes when sent back to our application.

I have not been able to get it to work with OneDrive or SharePoint links although it says that this is possible on this page:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn911482.aspx

Did I misunderstand this somehow?

Answer 1

Open the document in the Excel iOS app

Similar to setting mimetypes. You can do this on iOS using the UIDocumentInteractionController class.

Developer.apple.com docs

tutorial

Fetch the contents of the document inside your app

As another commenter suggested, hit the Microsoft Graph API for this one:

[[[[[graphClient me] drive] items:<item_id>] request] getWithCompletion:^(MSGraphDriveItem *item, NSError *error){
    //Returns a MSGraphDriveItem object or an error if there was one.
}];

https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-ios/blob/master/docs/items.md#get-an-item