Tag: Photos

First day March brings us a lot of great reads.

• Bruno Rocha gives an overview of passkeys – What the hell are passkeys?;
  
  
• How to delay an animation in SwiftUI by Natascha Fadeeva guides on simple animation tricks in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov explores contents of Swift async algorithms package – Discovering Swift Async Algorithms package;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers are announcing new feature in Composable Architecture – Sharing state in the Composable Architecture;
  
  
• A brief introduction to type memory layout in Swift by Wade Tregaskis will help you better understand how Swift stores your data, and another one – Beware of specifying isolation requirements for whole protocols covers specifics of using actors with protocols;
  
  
• Super-Resolution iPhone Panoramas for Vision Pro by David Smith explores details of panorama shots and provides a case for using high resolution panoramas;
  
  
  
• Noah Martin goes into internals of SwiftUI in How to use VariadicView, SwiftUI's private View API;
  
  
• Tiago Gomes Pereira explores visionOS UI – Changing a button shape in visionOS, and teaches us how to use Charts in SwiftUI – Using Swift Charts on a SwiftUI app;
  
  
• Working with dates and Codable in Swift by Donny Wals covers lack of standard in JSON encoding for dates;
  
  
• Ole Begemann uncovers one of the mysteries of Swift compiler with two concurrency models – How the Swift compiler knows that DispatchQueue.main implies @MainActor;
  
  
• Mastering Model3D View by Pasquale Vittoriosi goes through simple view for 3D objects in visionOS;
  
  
• WebKit team guides through a way of having familiar switch control in web app – An HTML Switch Control;
  
  
• Saagar Jha shares Making Friends with AttributeGraph with details on how DynamicProperty works in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Michael Tsai has a collection of good takes on couple of topics – Slow Swift Macro Compilation, Where View.task Gets Its Main-actor Isolation From.

And there is a good talk on optimization for size – SwiftConf 2023 – Bruno Rocha: Keeping Swift Apps Small: Why and How.

And now – that is it for today. Come back next Friday for more great articles.

First day of WWDC23 was packed with announcements. Here is a list of announcements captured by media.

Optic ID

Apple Vision Pro will have its own biometric authentication based on iris. iOS and iPadOS apps running on headset which use Face ID or Touch ID for authentication will automatically switch to Optic ID for seamless experience.

Siri

Siri now drops "Hey" part of activation phrase. Moreover, you can now do follow-up requests to speed up interaction.

Vision Pro

Apple to provide developers with Development Kit later this year.

Headset will have support for prescription lenses, not all prescriptions will be supported though.

Safari

Safari gains extensive support for web apps in macOS 14 Sonoma. Safari also brings support for spatial computing with <model> tag providing easy way of displaying 3D content alongside with web page.

Health

Follow up notifications to take medications are added. Mental health and vision control features are also built in. Device will now notify users if they're holding device too close to their face.

Various enhancements

• Autocorrect and predictive text were significantly improved in iOS/iPadOS 17.
• iPadOS 17 adds support to external webcams, not just those which are embedded into display.
• AirTags now could be shared between multiple users.
• Used SMS verification codes could be automatically removed.
• App Store Review Guidelines now target fake and "bad" apps.
• Optimized charging comes to more Apple Watch models.
• Developers without paid membership now could install developer betas.
• Stickers in Messages now could be created from photos.
• Video conferencing features with presenter overlay would be available to different applications.
• iOS Photos will recognize pets.

Apple Newsroom: Apple previews new features coming to Apple services this fall

References:

• Apple announces new Optic ID biometrics for user authentication on Apple Vision Pro headset
• Apple says it has fixed iPhone autocorrect with iOS 17
• Siri no longer requires ‘Hey’ command to activate, now has back-to-back requests
• iOS 17 Lets You Share AirTags With Others
• iOS 17 Can Automatically Clean Up Verification Codes That Clog Up Messages App
• Apple to Provide Developers With Vision Pro Development Kits
• Apple Vision Pro Headset Supports Prescription Inserts for Glasses Wearers
• News from WWDC23: WebKit Features in Safari 17 beta
• iOS 17 Introduces Follow-Up Reminders to Take Your Medications
• App Store Review Guideline updates go after fake apps, bad ads
• iOS 17 Tidbits: Enhanced Siri Suggestions, Multiple Timers, Recipe Visual Look Up, and More
• watchOS 10 Extends Optimized Charge Limit to More Apple Watch Models
• Apple Makes Developer Betas Free to Download and Install
• iPadOS 17 Adds Support for Studio Display Webcam and Other External USB Cameras
• You Can Turn Your Photos Into Animated Stickers With iOS 17
• WWDC 2023: New FaceTime Features Coming This Fall
• iOS 17 Photos App Recognizes Your Pets

It's the end of April, we are getting closer and closer to WWDC, June will definitely be filled with a lot of process. So, let's catch up with all prior-to-conference good reads.

• Natascha Fadeeva shares detailed guide on App Clips, the great way to attract new users – Developer guide on App Clips for iOS;
  
  
• Speedrun Design: Heart Rate Zone View in SwiftUI by David Smith continues series on how iterate through design ideas;
  
  
• Keith Harrison provides good use cases for Swift Reflection API – Using Swift Reflection;
  
  
• PhotosPicker in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov goes through privacy-preserving photo picking API in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng explains on how to properly mix UIKit with SwiftUI – How to Use UIHostingConfiguration to Integrate SwiftUI Views into UIKit Apps;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee provides networking implementation hints in Optimizing your app for Network Reachability;
  
  
• Using TextKit configuration to optimize text display is explained in How to prevent orphan words in text views on iOS and macOS by Jesse Squires;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese guides through date display in Simplify Time Comparisons in Swift with RelativeDateTimeFormatter;
  
  
• SwiftLint in Depth by Ehab Amer explains important pipelines to keep codebase clean;
  
  
• How to use SFSafariViewController in SwiftUI by Sarun W. explains couple of issues on integrating SFSafariViewController into SwiftUI projects.

And that is it for today. Have a great weekend, go through interesting articles and come back next week!

2023 is here! And it's time for next edition of good reads. There is a bunch of interesting articles this time.

• Let's start with article by Peter Friese on SwiftUI previews – Previewing Stateful SwiftUI Views;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee shares his approach on being better engineer – Engineering goals: How to become a more successful developer;
  
  
• If you plan to find new job – Preparing for a technical iOS job interview with questions and answers by Natascha Fadeeva might help you get prepared;
  
  
• How to Support Multiple Widgets When Using WidgetKit? by Lee Kah Seng continues topic of WidgetKit exploration;
  
  
• Working with keyboard in SwiftUI sometimes needs some tricks – How to disable custom keyboards in iOS SwiftUI-based applications by Marco Eidinger covers that;
  
  
• Magnus Jensen made a good guide on raw strings in Swift – Overview: Raw Strings;
  
  
• What’s New With PhotosPicker in iOS 16 by Felipe Laso-Marsetti guides through ways of accessing photos by your app;
  
  
• Great tutorial on long tap gestures by Leonardo Maia Pugliese – Mastering Long Press Gestures in SwiftUI: A Mini-Game Tutorial;
  
  
• Alejandro Martinez explains cooperative pool in Swift's structured concurrency model – Limit Swift Concurrency's cooperative pool;
  
  
• UIKit and SwiftUI interoperability is covered by Sarun W. – Using SwiftUI in UIKit as UIViewController.

And finishing up with conference talk – "TBC" by Marcin Krzyzanowski.

And this is how we start New Year. Come back next week for more great reads!

In an interview to Joanna Stern, Craig Federighi confirms that Apple stopped development of previously announced CSAM detection features.

In this interview Craig Federighi discussed new privacy and security features added by Apple to iCloud and their effect on law enforcement ability to extract data from iCloud.

One of the nixed features is Photos CSAM detection which was criticized by many privacy-focused groups and organizations.

The Wall Street Journal: Apple Plans New Encryption System to Ward Off Hackers and Protect iCloud Data (Apple News+)

References:

• Apple confirms that it has stopped plans to roll out CSAM detection system
• Apple Abandons Plans to Detect Known CSAM Stored in iCloud Photos
• Apple Has Stopped Development of System to Identify Child Sexual-Abuse Material
• Joanna Stern Interviews Craig Federighi Regarding New iCloud Security Features
• Apple's Craig Federighi Discusses Expanded iCloud End-to-End Encryption

Apple publishes detailed article explaining machine learning improvements in Photos app. In iOS 15 Photos app now can detect people with partially obscured faces.

This is done by combining face data with upper body information. This leads to better detection of people while still running on user's device.