Samar Sunkaria

Got Swift compiling into an app for the Flipper Zero! Had been wanting to do this for a while now—finally got the time.

Your favorite C library, now with Swift superpowers. 🦸 New post: how to transform C APIs into idiomatic Swift, with enums, automatic reference counting, and argument-labeled methods. Best of all: no header changes needed, thanks to API notes! 🥳 swift.org/blog/improving…

@stephancasas @sdoowhsoj @isolatedtech Talking about accessibility, Atlas doesn’t seem to compute the accessibility tree for its web content in response to setting AXEnhancedUserInterface on the application. Is that intentional?

programmatically extracting the class name from the accessibility subsystem w/o a private entitlement is non-trivial if you’re not interested in disabling sip and attaching a debugger, you might find the appkit debug menu helpful (defaults write kCFPreferencesAnyApplication NS🐞 -bool YES)

Take a closer look and I think you’ll notice different buttons with different icons because… it’s a different UI entirely. ChatGPT Atlas is built with SwiftUI.

@Dimillian @Barbapapapps You can always use whatever ButtonStyle you want in a custom PrimitiveButtonStyle.

@Barbapapapps I still don't understand custom style to this day. What want is to use one of those button style THEN to customize it.

Why is this not built in? Idk

Another daily reminder that you can draw glassy Text since the #SwiftUI glassEffect modifier accepts arbitrary Shapes - just convert Fonts into Shapes if you are willing to go deep into CoreText and tinker with CTFontCreatePathForGlyph.

@KyleSwifter What unspeakable horrors led you to summon UrgentMainQueueKit into existence? 😅

If you got hundreds of unrelated task in front of you due to the abuse of DispatchQueue.main.async in your large iOS codebase and your important network main queue callback got latency due to it (FIFO for serial queue). Check out UrgentMainQueueKit: github.com/Kyle-Ye/Urgent…

@alamfahim1998 @D_E_A_T_H_R_A_Y @backbone I have an app on the phone which effectively serves the same purpose as the Backbone app, i.e. communicating with the controller using the external accessory framework. I build the appropriate binary messages to establish a connection with the controller and ask it to launch apps

@Sameesunkaria @D_E_A_T_H_R_A_Y @backbone okay but how are you doing it?

Hacked the @backbone controller to launch the new #iOS26 Games app instead of the Backbone app when the backbone button is pressed!

@yvesrj Ah you here with them ChatGPT dashes… 😅

Don’t like how. #iOS26 and #iPadOS26 look? Try reducing the white point in the system settings by 25% — much better!!! 👀

@D_E_A_T_H_R_A_Y @backbone Figured out (parts of) the protocol that the Backbone app uses to communicate with the controller. The controller is responsible for launching the app based on the bundle ID. I’m sending it the appropriate message to launch Games in response to pressing the Backbone button.

@Sameesunkaria @backbone How did you do this

@simonbs Honestly, it’s probably a good idea to file feedback requesting an exception for apps that already have accessibility permissions. The privacy consideration is moot for those apps.

@Sameesunkaria Yeah, I'm thinking that I'll need to onboard users to grant the app "Always Allow" permission.

I’ve spent a few evenings the past two weeks building a fun Mac app 👨‍💻 While editing text in any app, like Slack, I can press a shortcut to open a panel and pick a saved command which will use AI to transform the text. For one-off commands, I type instructions into the panel.

@simonbs Gonna be fun with pasteboard privacy: developer.apple.com/documentation/…

I've found a reliable way to read and update text across apps, including Slack, even when messages contain emoji. It involves a roundtrip to the pasteboard, but it consistently gives the best results. A few small hacks made it all work somewhat smoothly 😄

@harlanhaskins @KyleSwifter @_silgen_name @_cdecl This is an unintuitive detail that would be nice to include in the readme. Really exciting work though @KyleSwifter :)

May 1st holiday highlights for me: - Finished building SymbolLocator 🔍 github.com/OpenSwiftUIPro… (1/2)

Applications are currently open for three of Apple's Developer Academies around the world, in Naples, Detroit, and Riyadh. These programs are like rocket boosters for your app-building ambitions – you get hands-on mentoring in code, yes, but also for design and business.

@KyleSwifter I can understand the appeal of 4 char codes, but that lowercase ‘r’ is wild

The API design of the new AVAudioApplication.recordPermission in iOS 17 is quite puzzling for me. #AVFAudio 1. AVAudioApplication.recordPermission instead of AVAudioApplication.RecordPermission for enum name 2. rawValue is Int instead of String forums.swift.org/t/why-enum-ava…

The Tim Cook Severance promo is wild because I always felt like the show could be about Apple - a company with such a deep, crazy culture of secrecy that they’d be the first to opt for severed employees in the workforce. also, my work there was always mysterious and important

@mysk_co “The icon may be obtained from that site by downloading the icon using two separate relays operated by different entities. […] This way, no single entity has the information to identify both you and the icons you download.” apple.com/legal/privacy/…

It still doesn't sound right that a password manager app communicates with 130 different websites (for downloading icons). That's more than X on my device 🤯. Thanks to our report, all these connections now use HTTPS, but 130....😩

The big idea behind passkeys is that passwords are _fundamentally broken_ and that solution to the problem is not to layer on top of them, but to replace them. Offering “passkeys” as a second factor confuses people and puts a false ceiling on the potential benefits.

Apple’s Passwords app makes it easy to replace your existing password manager 9to5mac.com/2024/12/13/app… by @iryantldr

Y'all are sleeping on the Apple Passwords app. - One-time code generator - Passkeys - Autofill in Safari and Chrome (with extension) - WiFi login management Deleted my 1Password and haven’t looked back

Apple’s Passwords app won me over with this one unique feature 9to5mac.com/2024/11/06/app… by @iryantldr