Ashton Williams

Advanced Xcode: Configurations, Targets, and Schemes Talk by me at #DevWorld 2016 youtu.be/yazY8hCO46s

App Store Connect is not allowing me to submit an app update for review, displays an error “Agreement Update” saying the Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been updated and needs to be reviewed. But it hasn’t, and there is nothing new to accept. 😧

@samjarman I found copilot to be additive, it doesn’t really delete or refactor code. So if the ideal solution isn’t just more of the same code, it slows you down.

Has anyone been able to consisely express to themselves or others in what situations tools like CoPilot tend to be right vs when they're wrong? I can't seem to spot the pattern other than "easy, obvious, boilerplate-y stuff" tends to succeed better than anything else.

Apple just announced several new iOS 18 accessibility features! 1. Eye Tracking Powered by artificial intelligence, Eye Tracking gives users a built-in option for navigating iPad and iPhone with just their eyes. Designed for users with physical disabilities, Eye Tracking uses the front-facing camera to set up and calibrate in seconds, and with on-device machine learning, all data used to set up and control this feature is kept securely on device, and isn’t shared with Apple.

@BigMtnStudio is this not fixed in Xcode 15.4 RC?

You know how Xcode will now generate symbols for your image and color assets automatically? Well, it seems that auto-generated code also violates new concurrency rules. Anyone know how to fix these warnings in Xcode?

Damn

In Xcode 15.4 beta, in the iOS 17.5 simulator, Safari and WKWebView display only blank pages (FB13740503)

@pointfreeco I’ve never understood why this Key pattern needs the where Self clause (apart from fixing the compile error) but the symbol is still globally available for lookup with dot syntax

When using @‌AppStorage it is possible to accidentally mix up the types or default in two different parts of your code base. With our @‌Shared property wrapper we allow you to bake in some type-safety so that the callsite is short and concise. Learn how: pointfree.co/episodes/ep277…

XProtect trash anyone else’s Xcode CI fleet?

@malinsundberg @airkai That’s so cool! Congratulations 🎉

Jumped up and down when @airkai showed me this!!! 🤩🤯 apps.apple.com/us/story/id172…

@ChristianSelig It’s hard to replicate because it’s not changing any CSS, even with native code, Safari uses _pageScale which is private API, they did add pageZoom, but that doesn’t do the same thing! Filed feedback but got nowhere.

From a web/CSS/JS perspective, what is Safari doing when you hit ⌘+ on a webpage and elements grow? I thought it would just be the CSS `zoom` property, it doesn't seem an exact match, Safari does other nice stuff like adjusting line height proportionally

Hi 👋 Posting this in hope that someone in my network may know of a role for me. I’m currently looking for a new job, full time, contract or part time. If you need help making an app or want someone very passionate about Accessibility to help you, let me know.

@overjeer It’s just good advice.

I read the bottom bit with an arrogance in my voice like maybe every product unveil Steve did back in the day. Though I agree with the sentiment, Samsung phones are trash.

@mario_apps_dev I hope that’s AI generated documentation? It’s bad advice and the even the name suffix “-Info.plist” is bizarre.

I'm reading Gemini documentation for Swift, and it suggests storing the API key inside a .plist file. Do you think it is secure enough? It seems good, so I don't need to build a Node app. #iosapp #indiedev #buildinpublic

@twannl In your version of BankAccount, `transfer` is like their example of multiple isolated parameters `quickTransfer` which should cause an error. In Swift 5.9 it seems self becomes un-isolated so you get an errror on accessing `self.balance`

@twannl Sorry the example in the picture and article are wrong. An actor instance method has an isolated self so cannot have another isolated parameter. It’s easily missed with how SE-0313 is written, but their example deposit function with an isolated parameter is module-scope.

Actors are a great solution to synchronising access to shared mutable state. The isolated keyword sometimes allows us to write less code when working with multiple actors. avanderlee.com/swift/nonisola… #swiftlang #iosdev

Requiring Sign In With Apple if you had other social sign in services was a good thing ☹️

@samjarman But now it’s viral

I think this demonstrative slide sacrifices a lot of code standards in order to fit functionality of server actions on a single slide, I think that might have been a mistake sadly given the reactions.

@JordanMorgan10 A similar tip is that UserDefaults can be forced in the launch arguments. Works well if you are reading the data from there already in Production

Just a little reminder that environment variables can be super handy to test things like having a "pro" version of your app, creating demo data & more. Plus, you don't have to worry about shipping this to the App Store either. I have some examples of this in the book series ✨

I’m disappointed that Apple Music SharePlay in CarPlay requires approving each person that joins, even if they are in your contacts, iCloud family, or have been approved before. No option to change this. Siri can’t approve either. It needs to be less distracting for the driver.

UIAccessibilityContainer. automationElements is great. Solve UI test automation problems without impacting Accessibility or using accessibilityIdentifier tricks. developer.apple.com/documentation/…