How to check if UIDocumentInteractionController will fail to open document due to missing external application on iPad?

Question

I am using UIDocumentInteractionController for showing popover menu \"Open In...\" so that user can open a document in other application.

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Answer 1

[EDIT] Not working for iOS 6.0 (see comment)

It seems that dismissMenuAnimated (with no animation at all) is the key:

-(BOOL)canOpenDocumentWithURL:(NSURL*)url inView:(UIView*)view {
    BOOL canOpen = NO;
    UIDocumentInteractionController* docController = [UIDocumentInteractionController 
                                                   interactionControllerWithURL:url];
    if (docController)
    {
        docController.delegate = self;
        canOpen = [docController presentOpenInMenuFromRect:CGRectZero
                                   inView:self.view animated:NO];                   
        [docController dismissMenuAnimated:NO];
    }
    return canOpen;
}

It will return YES if at least one application is able to open the file pointed by url. At least it's working in my case (KMZ files), testing with/without Dropbox app on iPhone iOS 4.3.
Actually, it seems to work even if url is not pointing to an actual file (i.e. @"test.kmz"), but I wouldn't rely on it for all file types.