Books/Comics download to accessible location on iOS

[DarkStar1977 92]

Hi Emby Team.

Today books/comics approach is incorrect for iOS.

When emby downloads something it's downloaded into the emby container application, if it's a video can be played because emby has a player to play videos, the same with music but with books and comics, even the file is downloaded is not presented on the downloads screen and as there's no "player" for this files then you are just wasting space on your iOS device, because once donwloaded cannot even be deleted !

Meanwhile emby has not a player for books or comics, the approach must be done by instead of download, implementing "Open with" for the target url file, it's explained here and seems quite simple to implement:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplicationdelegate/application(_:open:options:)

And here:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/enabling-document-sharing

With this iOS users will have the choice to instead donwloading the fille into emby's container and do nothing, select a 3rd party application to open the file and will be stored into this app container (exampler: ibooks, adobe acrobat, simple comic, etc)

Can this be implemented please ?

[Luke 39780]

Hi, yes we plan to improve this in future updates. Thanks.