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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Yes, they compose into the underlying hosting views and layers. But layout and animation happens entirely in-process on an internal clock (that does not even support frame rates higher than 60fps) before being sent to the Core Animation render server.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

In the sense that it’s what actually does rendering on the GPU, sure. But not as backing for views and animations.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Hmm, can’t decide if the fact they already have camera APIs for enterprise makes it more likely they open them up... or less 🙃

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Generally all the points of integration with the OS. There is like a dozen of features NSUserActivity is used for. UIActivity, UIApplicationShortcutAction, the remaining INIntents, and so on.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The fact that UIKit is backed by Core Animation is super under appreciated. There was so much care put into making sure UI runs smoothly even when your process is under heavy load -- entirely missing in SwiftUI.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My WWDC wishlist is basically the same as last year: - SwiftUI needs to get fundamentally more performant - App Intents should take over even more of the system

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Back from my social media break, did I miss anything?

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Me 🤝 _UINavigationBarPalette

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Giant e-ink posters — I’ve been waiting for this product category to emerge for so long. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZov... inkposter.com

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World's First E Ink Art Frame - The Pocketbook InkPoster Launch

YouTube video by Vladimir Kostek

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

(The screenshot uses the debug environment variable to downgrade the crash to a runtime warning: SWIFT_IS_CURRENT_EXECUTOR_LEGACY_MODE_OVERRIDE=nocrash)

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

You might assume that since Binding conditionally conforms to Sendable and has an initializer that seems isolation-aware, it would be... sendable. It isn’t. Touching the value outside its intended isolation is unsafe. In Swift 6, this will crash your app for Bindings created with .init(get:set).

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Apple granted the CarPlay audio entitlement. Seems like there is no gotchas, just need to apply and wait for a few weeks.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Working on a redesign, and I really like these bigger cards for the listening section. But showing the title and author below the cover feels a bit too Jacobs by Marc Jacobs for Marc by Marc Jacobs.

iOS app showing Listening and Recently Added sections with audiobook covers. The Listening section has audiobook title and author under the cover, effectively duplicating this information.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

There's a neat symbol often used for audiobooks: ℗ (U+2117 sound recording copyright) In Apple's fonts, it looks bad: small and off-center. A replacement is Ⓟ (U+24C5 circled letter P), but that's awkward for editable fields. So, for my app I ship a font consisting of just that single symbol. 🙃

Image showing how these symbols are rendered in SF Pro: ℗ © Ⓟ

Xcode with “SoundCopyright.ttf” selected. The font contains just the symbol ℗

Image of text:

©2024 Brandon Sanderson ℗2024 Macmillan Audio

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It's a whopping 62 hours 😲 Even after shortening silences (-15%) and at 1.5×, it's still 36 hours of playback — not a single weekend commitment.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Open Bluesky app Want to view new posts Tap home to scroll to top Tap home the second time to refresh It refreshes And then refreshes again Every time

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Thinking in SwiftUI was the single best thing I’ve read that explains how SwiftUI works instead of just introducing all the views and modifiers. www.objc.io/books/thinki...

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Thinking in SwiftUI

A Transition Guide

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Transition animations this time, specifically between VCs that show a toolbar and don't.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

UINavigationController must be the most cursed component in all of iOS.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I've never heard that, but thanks for the new pet peeve 🫠

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Neil Sardesai @neilsardesai.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2024

Thought he could be a lil more cozy :)

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Looking at the expanded code, I don't see why @.Previewable needs to be 17.0+, and didn't get backported by Apple.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

TIL: Code after the @.Previewable macro doesn't require a return statement, despite what the docs suggest. This is because the macro expands to a wrapper struct, with other code placed in the body using a @.ViewBuilder. Neat!

Official docs on @Previewable: #Preview("toggle") {
@Previewable @State var toggled = true
return Toggle("Loud Noises", isOn: $toggled)
}

Valid code:
#Preview("toggle") {
@Previewable @State var toggled = true
Toggle("Loud Noises", isOn: $toggled)
}

Xcode showing the expanded contents of a #Preview macro as used in the previous image.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

See, the reason everyone keeps making dumb decisions in Silo S1 is actually simple: the scrubbers failed ages ago, and now everyone has generational brain damage from chronic high CO2 exposure.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I soo regret I didn't get it when it was available 😭

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I got the idea from your post. I didn't deploy in time for the review, so still not sure if Apple would have problems with this 😅 bsky.app/profile/aura...

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Took the opportunity to brush up the paywall. It's nothing complex, but the top section can now be configured remotely with custom text, colors, and Markdown for the main text.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

How difficult is a CarPlay entitlement nowadays for an audio player app? Any hidden gotchas?

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Every Word: Audiobook Player @everywordapp.com · 27/11/2024

Every Word joins #IndieAppSales this year for a #BlackFriday sale! For the first time ever, Every Word Plus is discounted 🎉 - One year: 50% off with offer code BLACKFRIDAY24 - Lifetime: 25% off Available now through December 3rd — don’t miss out!

Black Friday Sale — Until December 3rd

One year is $7 (50% off) with code BLACKFRIDAY24

Lifetime is $30 (25% OFF)

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Every Word: Audiobook Player @everywordapp.com · 27/11/2024

Hi Bluesky! 👋 Every Word is a player for your DRM-free audiobooks. Import MP3 and M4B files to enjoy your collection with features like silence shortening, adjustable speeds, chapter navigation, listening stats — all in a sleek, user-friendly design. Available for iOS and iPadOS.

3 screenshots of Every Word, showing the Home, Info, and Player screens.

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

With UITab extensively replacing UITabBarController APIs in iOS 18, it feels like older methods will be deprecated in a couple of releases.

Screenshot of UITabBarController headers:

/// An array of root tabs representing view controllers to display by the tab bar interface. Default is empty.
/// Once set, `UITabBarController.viewControllers` and related properties and methods will not be called.
@available(iOS 18.0, *)
open var tabs: [UITab]

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If I listen to exactly 4 hours of podcasts in Overcast every day until the end of this year, I can still catch up to 2023.

Overcast: 401 hours total listening time in 2024

Overcast: 561 hours total listening time in 2023

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Starter packs are a killer feature, I'm already following more people here than on Mastodon.

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Jay ᯅ | iOS Dev  @creativewith.in · 20/11/2024

Not too bad. Here are some good starter packs: - Mobile Devs: go.bsky.app/7wmo12t - Apple Developers  I: go.bsky.app/66G7TY4 - Apple Developers  II: go.bsky.app/M8xLgeS

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Mike Apurin @auramagi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

So, how active is iOS dev community here?

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