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Separate bluetooth keyboard and bluetooth scanner inputs
Hi, I have an iOS app where bluetooth scanner and bluetooth keyboard both should work simultaneously. I have used 'pressesBegan' method to fetch the characters which are coming from the bluetooth keyboard. This method is fetching all the bluetooth keyboard inputs correctly. But this method is also called when the characters are coming from the bluetooth scanner. In the 'pressesBegan' method, I have to separate the inputs which are coming from the bluetooth keyboard and are coming from bluetooth scanner. They both have some different use in the app. I have already tried with the fetching speed of the characters, but no luck in case of high speed typing. So characters fetching speed will not work in our case. Is there any way to separate the inputs based on some other factorials? Or any other info in the 'pressesBegan' method which can separate the input that it is coming from scanner or is coming from keyboard. Any suggestion regarding this will be helpful. Thanks in advance.
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Jan ’25
Clarification on Entitlements, Privacy Manifest, and Info.plist for System-Wide Mouse Click Monitoring and Typing Simulation in macOS App
I am currently developing a macOS application that listens for system-wide mouse clicks to simulate typing with user-provided text. The app requires Accessibility permissions to function properly, and I want to ensure compliance with Apple’s latest privacy and security guidelines. The app listens to global mouse clicks. It simulates keyboard input with user-provided text I would like detailed guidance on the following aspects: What specific entitlements are required to allow system-wide mouse click monitoring and simulating user input ? App Sandbox enable or disable? what keys required to explain global mouse click monitoring and keyboard input simulation in the info.plist What will be the configuration of Privacy Manifest
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Jan ’25
Registering a macOS app for dynamic text sizing in macOS 15
macOS 15 includes a neat section in System Preferences Settings to change the dynamic text size, as outlined see: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/make-text-and-icons-bigger-mchld786f2cd/mac However, it's not immediately clear a) how to get one's app in this list, and b) if the usual methods from iOS to react to text size even work on macOS. Does anyone have any experience here? Or should I implement my own controls in my app's settings and call it a day? For context, my app is a macOS-native SwiftUI app.
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Jan ’25
Will iCloud service lose data access because users are in different regions?
My app uses CoreData based on iOS 13.0 combined with iCloud to store data. This function automatically manages the data collaboration between CoreData and iCloud. Some users have reported that after going abroad, their original data disappeared, and when they returned to China, the data could be displayed normally again. I'm located in Mainland China. I've learned that iCloud data in China is all stored in Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (the data center in Guizhou). Could this problem be caused by display abnormalities resulting from the switching of the iCloud data storage centers accessed in different regions?
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Dec ’24
Don't get the completed shipping contact after authorizaiton
We have get the response from Apple pay after the the customer doing the face ID & touch ID authorization. But the shiping contact is not complete, for examble: ` { "addressLines": [ "1************ kwy" ], "administrativeArea": "FL", "country": "", "countryCode": "", "emailAddress": "S*********le.com", "familyName": "******i", "givenName": "******m", "locality": "*******s", "phoneNumber": "+*******79", "phoneticFamilyName": "", "phoneticGivenName": "", "postalCode": "*****3", "subAdministrativeArea": "", "subLocality": "" },` as the documents said, it should be the completed shipping contact, but the country & countrycode is null https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_pay_on_the_web/applepaypayment/1916097-shippingcontact
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Dec ’24
mkdir actions-runner && cd actions-runner
curl -o actions-runner-osx-x64-2.321.0.tar.gz -L https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v2.321.0/actions-runner-osx-x64-2.321.0.tar.gz echo "b2c91416b3e4d579ae69fc2c381fc50dbda13f1b3fcc283187e2c75d1b173072 actions-runner-osx-x64-2.321.0.tar.gz" | shasum -a 256 -c tar xzf ./actions-runner-osx-x64-2.321.0.tar.gz ./config.sh --url https://github.com/funds123/tpsdk --token BMOPQPZNQKB57MXE4BDDKKTHMTHJO ./run.sh Save this configuration as com.github.actions.runner.plist in
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Dec ’24
Membership Purchase Issue
Dear Team, We are stuck in membership enrollment process at the purchase stage. We enter the payment details, get the message that our purchase will be completed in 48 hours, but after some time, it reverts back to the same stage of purchase your membership without any error or information. This has happened for 3-4 times till now. Kindly let us know how to resolve this issue and move forward with the enrollment process. Thanks.
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Dec ’24
Keyboard Navigation Not Working for inline PhotosPicker
We are using inline PhotosPicker introduced with iOS 17.0. The accessbility navigation using touch gestures work fine but the navigation through Keyboard doesn't work properly. The tab/arrow based Keyboard navigation can't move from native app process to inline PhotosUI process or vice versa. This is logged as a high severity bug by our accessibility team. Please look into this. Sample code for repro: https://github.com/saalisumer/AccessibilityIssueInlinePhotoPickerIOS Repro video: https://github.com/saalisumer/AccessibilityIssueInlinePhotoPickerIOS/blob/main/Simulator%20Screen%20Recording%20-%20iPhone%2015%20Pro%20-%202024-12-16%20at%2016.27.48.mp4
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Dec ’24
VoiceOver Typing Feedback is not working on UITextField with Japanese.
Settings Accessibility > VoiceOver > Typing > Typing Feedback Set Character and Words General > Keyboard > Keyboards Add Japanese - Kana Use iOS18.0 ~ iOS18.2 Build with Xcode16.1 ~ 16.2 What happens? When we input "あ" in UITextField with Japanese - Kana Keyboard, it up until now it was feedback as "a". However, it is no feedback now. On UITextView, Typing Feedback working. On iOS17, also working.
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Dec ’24
Application "help" menu does not open main help book page
Following the official documentation, I'm trying to create a set of three localised Help Books. The Help Books should be available in Spanish, English and Polish. Presently, I'm trying to complete English version. App Structure This is the plugin application consisting of main app and the plugin. The main app structure would looks as follows: Files . <XcodeProject Top> ├── Localizable.xcstrings ├── MyAppExtension │   ├── MyAppExtension.swift │   └── <other swift files>.swift ├──MyApp │ ├── Info.plist │   ├── +Array.swift │   ├── +ButtonStyle.swift │   ├── <other app swift files>.swift ├── Resources     └── MyApp.help └── MyApp.help └── Contents ├── Info.plist └── Resources ├── English.lproj │   ├── ExactMatch.plist │   ├── InfoPlist.strings │   ├── MyApp.helpindex │   ├── MyApp.html │   └── pgs └── shrd MyApp / MyApp.help / Info.plist file Consists the following values: Bundle name: MyApp HPDBookAccessPath: MyApp.html HPDBookTitle: My App Help Default localization: en_gb MyApp / Info.plist file Contains the following entries: Help Book directory name: MyApp.help Help Book Identifier: MyApp Help Build phase The Copy Bundle Resources copies MyApp.help in MyApp/Resources. Questions Is the provided folder structure valid for creating a localised help books Is there anything that is missing from across Info.plist files or is in the wrong places? Why the MyApp -> Help opens the main help menu, not the app help
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Dec ’24