I would like to show a list with all printer accessible by the device via AirPrint.
I get it working with using the UIPrinterPickerController
.
Is there anyway displaying this PickerController in a custom way, let's say feeding the data into a UITableView
?
Also note that I'm planning to use this App on an iPad which only supports the UIPrinterPickerController.presentFromRect(CGRect)
Here's how it looks right now. Instead of this popup there should be a UITableView
the
NSNetServiceBrowser
is precisely for this.In short, what you need to do is:
1) set an object as the NSNetServiceBrowserDelegate 2) create a NSNetServiceBrowser object 3) assign the delegate 4) using
browserObject.searchForServices(ofType: "_printer._tcp.", inDomain: "")
will get various feedback to the delegate.A simple test on my end got:
for the delegate method: