Share extension gets TWO images from the Photos.app when I select ONE image.

[halloleooo]

My share extension image script works beautifully with selections from the the Files app, but with the Photos app, I have the problem that each image appears TWICE. For the following screenshot I had selected only ONE image, but the script gets TWO (identical) images delivered viaappex.get_images(image_type='ui'):

How can I avoid (or detect) this? I though this might happen because of HDR and normal image, however both images in the list returned from appex.get_images are of the same type _ui.Image.

[cvp]

@halloleooo do you have the same problem with pil image?

[cvp]

@halloleooo As your script process a join of two images, are you 100% sure it is not a bug?

[cvp]

@halloleooo this little script prints 1 for an unique photo and 2 if 2 photos shared

import ui

import appex

class MyView(ui.View):
	def __init__(self):
		pass
	def will_close(self):
		appex.finish()
		
def main():
	v = MyView()
	v.present()
	f = appex.get_images(image_type='ui')
	print(len(f))
		
if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()

[halloleooo]

@cvp Well, I copied your code to Pythonista, hooked it up as Share Extension script - and when I run it from the Photos app with ONE image selected it prints 2!

[cvp]

@halloleooo HEIC gives 2 photos..., try this with your double photo, the 2nd one is HEIC

Edit : if you want to avoid HEIC photos, go in Settings/Camera/Formats/Most Compatible

import ui

import appex

class MyView(ui.View):
	def __init__(self):
		iv = ui.ImageView(name='iv')
		iv.frame = self.bounds
		self.add_subview(iv)
	def will_close(self):
		appex.finish()
		
def main():
	v = MyView()
	v.present()
	f = appex.get_attachments()
	n = ''
	for fil in f:
		i = fil.rfind('/')
		n += fil[i+1:]+'  '
	v.name = n
	v['iv'].image = ui.Image.named(appex.get_attachments()[0])

if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()

[halloleooo]

@cvp Yep HEIC must be the culprit. So HEIC photos are shared as HEIC and as JPG.

I don’t really understand your code yet, but I will try it. I assume you somehow detect whether the format is HEIC or not...

[cvp]

@halloleooo my code allowed to check the file name of your both attachments and thus see one was a jpg and the other an HEIC for the same photo. See the name (title) of the view.

[halloleooo]

@cvp Aha! Yes, of course! I will use this!

Thanks heaps!

[halloleooo]

Just as a final follow-up: Using appex.get_attachments and Image.named works perfectly. Here my workflow:

1. I get the image file names via appex.get_attachments.
2. I weed out the paths for heic files which have a accompaning other image file.
3. Finally I load the remaining images manually via the Image.named method.

Thanks for your help, @cvp! :-)