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UICalendarView with decorations - change day height
Is there any way to change the height of the "day" cells in the UICalendarView? The view is very tall on the screen and I'd like to shorten it so I can put more content below it without using a scroll view. I'm using SwiftUI with a UICalendarView with UIViewRepresentable. The calendar will have default decorations to indicate a date with events.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Feb ’25
How to remove margins around built-in views?
I want to have my own background and foreground colors for some views and I am having a bit of trouble. I cannot figure out how to remove the margins around some built-in views. One example is below. The ScrollView portion is always black or white, depending on whether I am I dark mode or not. I've added various colors and borders to see what is going on below. I've also tried adding the modifiers to the Scroll View rather than the TextEditor and it doesn't work at all. If I don't have the .frame modifier on the ScrollView, the TextEditor moves to the top of its frame for some reason. I've played with .contentMargins, .edgeInsets, etc. with no luck How do I get the TextEditor to fill the entire ScrollView without the margin? Thanks! import SwiftUI struct TextEditorView: View { @Binding var editString: String var numberOfLines: Int var lineHeight: CGFloat { UIFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle: .body).lineHeight } var viewHeight: CGFloat { lineHeight * CGFloat(numberOfLines) + 8 } var body: some View { ScrollView([.vertical], showsIndicators: true) { TextEditor(text: $editString) .border(Color.red, width: 5) .foregroundStyle(.yellow) .background(.blue) .frame(minHeight:viewHeight, maxHeight: viewHeight) .scrollContentBackground(.hidden) } .frame(minHeight:viewHeight, maxHeight: viewHeight) } }
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Jan ’25
Can We Detect When Running Behind a Slide Over Window?
I'm trying to determine if it’s possible to detect when a user interacts with a Slide Over window while my app is running in the background on iPadOS. I've explored lifecycle methods such as scenePhase and various UIApplication notifications (e.g., willResignActiveNotification) to detect focus loss, but these approaches don't seem to capture the event reliably. Has anyone found an alternative solution or workaround for detecting this specific state change? Any insights or recommended practices would be greatly appreciated.
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Mar ’25
Correct way to run modal session?
My assumption has always been that [NSApp runModalForWindow:] runs a modal window in NSModalPanelRunLoopMode. However, while -[NSApplication _doModalLoop:peek:] seems to use NSModalPanelRunLoopMode when pulling out the next event to process via nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:, the current runloop doesn't seem to be running in that mode, so during -[NSApplication(NSEventRouting) sendEvent:] of the modal-specific event, NSRunLoop.currentRunLoop.currentMode returns kCFRunLoopDefaultMode. From what I can tell, this means that any event processing code that e.g. uses [NSTimer addTimer:forMode:] based on the current mode will register a timer that will not fire until the modal session ends. Is this a bug? Or if not, is the correct way to run a modal session something like this? [NSRunLoop.currentRunLoop performInModes:@[NSModalPanelRunLoopMode] block:^{ [NSApp runModalForWindow:window]; }]; [NSRunLoop.currentRunLoop limitDateForMode:NSModalPanelRunLoopMode]; Alternatively, if the mode of the runloop should stay the same, I've seen suggestions to run modal sessions like this: NSModalSession session = [NSApp beginModalSessionForWindow:theWindow]; for (;;) { if ([NSApp runModalSession:session] != NSModalResponseContinue) break; [NSRunLoop.currentRunLoop limitDateForMode:NSModalPanelRunLoopMode]; } [NSApp endModalSession:session]; Which would work around the fact that the timer/callbacks were scheduled in the "wrong" mode. But running NSModalPanelRunLoopMode during a modal session seems a bit scary. Won't that potentially break the modality?
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Mar ’25
Stage Manager - UIWindowScene sizeRestrictions on iPad
Hello everyone, The setup: I have an iPadOS app. The app does not require full screen (Requires full screen option is disabled). The problem: The app starts looking unpolished when the canvas becomes too small. What I tried: I am trying to limit the canvas size for our app when run in Stage Manager. How: I saw that UIWindowScene has sizeRestrictions. This property is not always set as per documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiwindowscene/sizerestrictions From my experiments, it only works when it's run on MacOS (in compatibility mode in our case). Console logs: Stage Manager - Requires full screen - OFF willConnectToSession - sizeRestrictions: nil sceneDidBecomeActive - sizeRestrictions: nil Stage Manager - Requires full screen - ON willConnectToSession - sizeRestrictions: nil sceneDidBecomeActive - sizeRestrictions: nil Stage Manager - Requires full screen - OFF - RUN on MacOS willConnectToSession - sizeRestrictions: Available sceneDidBecomeActive - sizeRestrictions: Available Question: Is there a way to enforce this minimum canvas size?
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit
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Mar ’25
macos 15, savepanel return the wrong path when saving files occasionally
macOS: 15.0 macFUSE: 4.8.3 I am using rclone + macFUSE and mount my netdisk where it has created three subdirectories in its root directory: /user, /share, and /group. When I save a file to /[root]/user using NSSavePanel and name it test.txt, I expect the file to be saved as: /[root]/user/test.txt However, occasionally, the delegate method: - (BOOL)panel:(id)sender validateURL:(NSURL *)url error:(NSError **)outError { } returns an incorrect path: /[root]/test.txt This issue only occurs when selecting /user. The same operation works correctly for /share and /group. Is there any logs I could provide to help solving this issue? Many thanks!
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: AppKit Tags:
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Feb ’25
Save fails after Save As
I have an app with two file types with the following extensions: gop (an exported type), sgf (an imported type). The Save command fails after the following sequence of events: I open a gop file, say the file "A.gop". I save this file as an sgf file, say "A.sgf". This Save As works perfectly and the document name in the document’s title bar has changed to "A.sgf". I change something in the document and then try to Save this change. This should just resave the document to "A.sgf", but "A.sgf" remains untouched. Instead I get a system alert with the message The document “A.sgf” could not be saved. A file with the name “A.gop” already exists. To save the file, either provide a different name, or move aside or delete the existing file, and try again. In the Xcode console I get the following diagnostic: NSFileSandboxingRequestRelatedItemExtension: an error was received from pboxd instead of a token. Domain: NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code: 2 [NSFileCoordinator itemAtURL:willMoveToURL:] could not get a sandbox extension. oldURL: file:///Users/francois/Desktop/A.sgf, newURL: file:///Users/francois/Desktop/A.gop The problem seems to relate to the sandbox. But I am at a loss to find a solution. (After closing the alert, I check that A.sgf did not register the change.) If I open an sgf file, say "B.sgf", save it as "B.gop", make a change in the document and then try to save this change (into "B.gop"), I hit the same problem, with "gop" and "sgf" interchanged. If, instead of saving "A.gop" as "A.sgf", I save it as "B.sgf", make a change in the document and then try to save this change into "B.sgf", I get the following system alert: The document “B.sgf” could not be saved. You don’t have permission. To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info. And in the Xcode console I get the following diagnostic: NSFileSandboxingRequestRelatedItemExtension: an error was received from pboxd instead of a token. Domain: NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code: 2 [NSFileCoordinator itemAtURL:willMoveToURL:] could not get a sandbox extension. oldURL: file:///Users/francois/Desktop/B.sgf, newURL: file:///Users/francois/Desktop/B.gop Again the sandbox ! (After closing the alert, I check that B.sgf did not register the change.) It’s clear my code is missing something, but what?
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Apr ’25
Custom keypad touchUpInside events not working in iOS18
I have a custom keypad to accept numeric input for iPads that I have been using for many years now. This is longstanding working code. With iOS 18 the touchUpInside (and other) events in the underlying Objective-C modules are not called in the file owner module when activated from the interface. The buttons seem to be properly activated based on the visual cues (they change colors when pressed). This is occurring in both simulators and on hardware. Setting the target OS version does not help. What could the cause and/or solution of this be?
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Mar ’25
iOS 18.4 App updates crashes the widget and the only solution is to restart the device or change the device language
App update in which there were no changes regarding the widget. Just after it updated, the widget turns black in some cases. It also appears black in the widget gallery. Removing and adding it again did not work in this case, only after an iOS restart it works fine again This is the log 2025-03-20 02:14:05.961611 +0800 Content load failed: unable to find or unarchive file for key: [com.aa.bb::com.aa.bb.widget:cc_widget:systemMedium::360.00/169.00/23.00:(null)~(null)] on no host. The session may still produce one shortly. Error: Using url file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/PluginKitPlugin/51C5E4F2-6F1F-4466-A428-73C73B9CC887/SystemData/com.apple.chrono/placeholders/cc_widget/systemMedium----360.00w--169.00h--23.00r--1f--0.00t-0.00l-0.00b0.00t.chrono-timeline ... Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 "file“systemMedium----360.00w--169.00h--23.00r--1f--0.00t-0.00l-0.00b0.00t.chrono-timeline”not exist。" UserInfo={NSFilePath=/private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/PluginKitPlugin/51C5E4F2-6F1F-4466-A428-73C73B9CC887/SystemData/com.apple.chrono/placeholders/cc_widget/systemMedium----360.00w--169.00h--23.00r--1f--0.00t-0.00l-0.00b0.00t.chrono-timeline, NSUnderlyingError=0xa693d3a80 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory"}}
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Mar ’25
Loading secondary Icon
I want to add the option to choose an alternative icon inside the app. Is there a way to load an icon asset from within the app? I downloaded Apple’s alternative icon sample, which is supposed to show a list of icons to choose from, but even in the sample, it did not work. So the current solution is to add every alternative icon along with another image asset of the same image to display to the user. This sounds like a waste of bytes. Thank you in advance for any help.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: General
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Mar ’25
Adding a Label with UIImage and Text to the TabSection Header in tvOS 18+
I've been trying to add a header to the tabSection of the tabview in tvos 18+ . init( @TabContentBuilder<SelectionValue> content: () -> Content, @ViewBuilder header: () -> Header ) where Header : View, Footer == EmptyView Here the ehader clearly conforms to View but i cant quite fit the label with uiimage as the icon into this. This Label when i add it to any other view, the image is in the specified 50 x 50 size but inside header it functions weirdly to be of a huge size. but also to note, if i simply hav an icon here, it is correct. So what is the problem here.. can someone help me? im supposed to add the user profile and name in the header. I dont think there's any other way
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI Tags:
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Jan ’25
progress view does not work
I have an app that run Monte Carlo simulations. I run thousands of simulations in the app and a simulation runs can take on the order of 30 seconds to a minute to complete. I would like to have a progress view that tracks the number of simulation runs. How can I implement this in swiftui?
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Mar ’25
How does the widget in iOS17 configure this kind of page?
I tried to use AppIntentConfiguration in iOS17 to fail to achieve such a dynamic configuration. code: struct ConfigurationAppIntent: WidgetConfigurationIntent {     static var title: LocalizedStringResource { "位置" }     static var description: IntentDescription { "选择位置以展示城市天气" }     @Parameter(title: "Select City", optionsProvider: CityOptionsProvider())     var selectedCity: String? }
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Jan ’25
How to make app for iPhone and iPad separatly
I released an app for iPhone (and it's could be downloaded for iPad also), and now I developered another app for iPad version with the same code and logic but I modified the layout to fit bigger screen and make better user experience and appearance. Howevert the app review rejected my release due to the duplicate content, how can I solve it?
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: General
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Mar ’25
Crash: KEY_TYPE_OF_DICTIONARY_VIOLATES_HASHABLE_REQUIREMENTS
Hi everyone, frome time to time I see crash which Im not able to debug, because there is no line of my code where crash occured. This is a crash log what Im getting from time to time of some users. In my device I never get this kind of crash. 0 libswiftCore.dylib 0x1172c _assertionFailure(_:_:flags:) + 208 1 libswiftCore.dylib 0x198624 KEY_TYPE_OF_DICTIONARY_VIOLATES_HASHABLE_REQUIREMENTS(_:) + 2980 2 libswiftCore.dylib 0xdb6c8 specialized _NativeDictionary.uncheckedRemove(at:isUnique:) + 534 3 libswiftCore.dylib 0xb250c Dictionary._Variant.setValue(_:forKey:) + 204 4 libswiftCore.dylib 0x5a620 Dictionary.subscript.setter + 520 5 SwiftUICore 0xf62ec ForEachState.item(at:offset:) + 4340 6 SwiftUICore 0xf5054 ForEachState.forEachItem(from:style:do:) + 1796 7 SwiftUICore 0x2272f8 ForEachState.traitKeys.getter + 84 8 SwiftUICore 0x227298 ForEachList.traitKeys.getter + 24 9 SwiftUICore 0x227008 protocol witness for ViewList.traitKeys.getter in conformance SubgraphList + 76 10 SwiftUICore 0x227008 protocol witness for ViewList.traitKeys.getter in conformance SubgraphList + 76 11 SwiftUICore 0x227008 protocol witness for ViewList.traitKeys.getter in conformance SubgraphList + 76 12 SwiftUICore 0x227008 protocol witness for ViewList.traitKeys.getter in conformance SubgraphList + 76 13 SwiftUICore 0x2271fc DynamicViewList.WrappedList.traitKeys.getter + 88 27 SwiftUICore 0x226d18 specialized static SectionAccumulator.processUnsectionedContent(list:contentSubgraph:) + 84 28 SwiftUI 0x26afe0 ListSectionInfo.init(list:listAttribute:contentSubgraph:) + 132 29 SwiftUI 0x269bb0 UpdateCollectionViewListCoordinator.updateValue() + 1528 30 SwiftUI 0x785d4 partial apply for implicit closure #1 in closure #1 in closure #1 in Attribute.init<A>(_:) + 32 31 AttributeGraph 0xccac AG::Graph::UpdateStack::update() + 540 32 AttributeGraph 0xc870 AG::Graph::update_attribute(AG::data::ptr<AG::Node>, unsigned int) + 424 33 AttributeGraph 0xc444 AG::Subgraph::update(unsigned int) + 848 34 SwiftUICore 0x805a8 GraphHost.flushTransactions() + 860 35 SwiftUI 0x1ac84 closure #1 in _UIHostingView._renderForTest(interval:) + 24 36 SwiftUICore 0x7ffa8 partial apply for closure #1 in ViewGraphDelegate.updateGraph<A>(body:) + 28 37 SwiftUICore 0x7fd6c ViewRendererHost.updateViewGraph<A>(body:) + 120 38 SwiftUICore 0x7fce8 ViewGraphDelegate.updateGraph<A>(body:) + 84 39 SwiftUI 0x3e688 closure #1 in closure #1 in closure #1 in _UIHostingView.beginTransaction() + 172 40 SwiftUI 0x3e5d4 partial apply for closure #1 in closure #1 in closure #1 in _UIHostingView.beginTransaction() + 24 41 SwiftUICore 0x79720 closure #1 in static Update.ensure<A>(_:) + 56 42 SwiftUICore 0x796a4 static Update.ensure<A>(_:) + 100 43 SwiftUI 0x9c808 partial apply for closure #1 in closure #1 in _UIHostingView.beginTransaction() + 80 44 SwiftUICore 0x7f5e0 thunk for @callee_guaranteed () -> () + 28 45 SwiftUICore 0x6161c specialized closure #1 in static NSRunLoop.addObserver(_:) + 144 46 CoreFoundation 0x218a4 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 36 47 CoreFoundation 0x213f8 __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 552 48 CoreFoundation 0x75da8 __CFRunLoopRun + 948 49 CoreFoundation 0xc8284 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 588 50 GraphicsServices 0x14c0 GSEventRunModal + 164 51 UIKitCore 0x3ee674 -[UIApplication _run] + 816 52 UIKitCore 0x14e88 UIApplicationMain + 340 53 SwiftUI 0x291ef8 closure #1 in KitRendererCommon(_:) + 168 54 SwiftUI 0x291e28 runApp<A>(_:) + 100 55 SwiftUI 0x291d0c static App.main() + 180 56 DholRainbow 0x3019e8 main + 4339145192 (DholRainbowApp.swift:4339145192) 57 ??? 0x1b0bf5de8 (Missing) From Crashlytics I know at least human readable format of this error Fatal error: Duplicate keys of type 'Contact' were found in a Dictionary. This usually means either that the type violates Hashable's requirements, or that members of such a dictionary were mutated after insertion. I 've checked all my parts of code where Im using dictionary. This is a function which creating that particulary dictionary. private func logsByDate() { let groupedByDate = Dictionary(grouping: logs.filter { ($0.remoteParty as? Contact != nil) } ) { $0.date.removeTimeStamp ?? .distantPast }.mapValues { $0.compactMap { $0 } } var dayLogs = [DayLog]() for date in groupedByDate { var contacts = [CallLogContact]() for log in logs.filter({ $0.date.removeTimeStamp ?? .distantPast == date.key }) { if let contact = log.remoteParty as? Contact { if contacts.firstIndex(where: {$0.contact == contact }) == nil { let contactDayLogs = logs.filter({ $0.remoteParty as? Contact == contact && $0.date.removeTimeStamp == date.key}) contacts.append( CallLogContact( contact: contact, logs: contactDayLogs, lastCallLogDate: contactDayLogs.sorted(by: {$0.date > $1.date}).first?.date ?? .distantPast ) ) } } } dayLogs.append(DayLog(date: date.key, contact: contacts)) } DispatchQueue.main.async { self.groupedCallLogs = dayLogs } } This function is called from 3 others functions based on notification from the server in case of new call log, fetched call logs and removed call logs.
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Mar ’25
detecting modifier keys using UITextFieldDelegate protocol
I have a UITextField in my application, and I want to detect all the keys uniquely to perform all relevant task. However, there is some problem in cleanly identifying some of the keys. I m not able to identify the backspace key press in the textField(_:shouldChangeCharactersIn:replacementString:) method. Also I don't know how to detect the Caps Lock key. I am intending to so this because I want to perform some custom handling for some keys. Can someone help me with what is the way of detecting it under the recommendation from apple. Thanks in advance. Note: checking for replacementString parameter in shouldChangeCharactersIn method for empty does not help for backspace detection as it overlaps with other cases.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit Tags:
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Mar ’25
iPhone mirroring and controlling
One of my clients is interested in developing a system similar to BrowserStack for internal team usage. Could you please guide me on how to approach the development of this system? Specifically, the project requires: Full iPhone screen recording. Capturing and executing click events on the iPhone. Do I need to obtain permission from Apple for these functionalities?
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Jan ’25
Mixing NavigationLink types (value: and non-value: types)
Hello, I was wondering if someone could clear-up my thinking here. e.g. consider the code below... It has a rootView with a navlink to a childView which in turn has navlinks to GrandchildViews. The root view uses basic navLInks NavigationLink{View} label: {View} The child view uses type-based navLinks navigationLink(value:) {View} and .navigationDestination(for:) {View} I would expect the basic navlinks to work in the root view and the type-based ones to work in the child view. However it appears that both are active when one taps on a link in the child view. e.g. User actions: Start -> RootView is only view on the stack -> (tap on ‘Child View’) -> ChildView is top of the stack -> tap on ‘Alice’ -> a second ChildView is top of the stack with a GrandchildView underneath…. Why does this happen, why are the basic links also applied to the childView's links? Thanks. struct Thing: Identifiable, Hashable { let id = UUID() let name: String } struct RootView: View { var body: some View { NavigationStack { List { NavigationLink { ChildView() } label: { Label("Child View", systemImage: "figure.and.child.holdinghands") } NavigationLink { Text("Hello") } label: { Label("Another navLink item in the list", systemImage: "circle") } } .padding() } } } struct ChildView: View { private var things = [ Thing(name: "Alice"), Thing(name: "Bob"), Thing(name: "Charlie"), ] var body: some View { Text("This is the child view") List { ForEach(things) { thing in NavigationLink(value: thing) { Text(thing.name) } } } .navigationTitle("Child View") .navigationDestination(for: Thing.self) { thing in GrandchildView(thing: thing) } } } struct GrandchildView: View { let thing: Thing var body: some View { Text("This is the GrandchildView: \(thing.name)") } }
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Mar ’25