I know that apps can register to open types on iOS.  

So, I saved a file in TextEdit to iCloud.  Now I want to view and edit it on my 
iPad.  What do I do? 

-K 

Sent from my iPad with Retina Display
http://www.kevincallahan.org


On Aug 25, 2012, at 9:02 PM, David Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Aug 25, 2012, at 8:48 PM, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> What's strange is that if you receive an attachment in Mail, you get the 
>> option to "Open With..." some other application. It's like Mail is a 
>> surrogate file system.  Bizarre, of course.
> 
> Perhaps it'd be bizarre if Mail were indeed acting as a surrogate file 
> system, but it's not, so it's not.
> 
> Lots of iOS apps provide access to the "Open (document) In..." api. What 
> happens is the current application will toss a copy of the document in 
> question over to the receiving application, which will then store and display 
> the copy as part of its local document trove. You're not opening/seeing one 
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