Reading a file in an AUV3 on iOS

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Can you be more specific?

AppGroups - allows sharing data between different apps. This is also relevant when you need a shared location (eg. Presets) between standalone and AUv3.

For reading files -
The browser should be enough. but from my experience iOS is very picky about what you pass as extensions so you need something like that:

FR: iOS custom file type open handler

the current version of the patch i’m using is here: and then i have this code in StandaloneApp.cpp: #if JucePlugin_Build_Standalone && JUCE_IOS void urlOpened(const juce::URL &url) override { // we have to read our url as an InputStream, otherwise // we won't have access to the underlying bookmark data. auto is = url.createInputStream( juce::URL::InputStreamOptions(juce::URL::ParameterHandling::inAddress)); // so we read from the url and write to a temp file //…

For AppGroups/iCloud - you need a paid developer account.
For On-Device (On My iPhone/iPad) the files should be accessible even with the free developer program.

Edit:
Ohh, and you get a stream and not a real file. which is quite reasonable since a file can be “on the cloud” (eg. Dropbox/iCloud) and your pointer might be an inputstream that’s will be downloaded async.