Tag: Streaming

Hey there! This week we have many great reads for the developers, so – buckle up!

This week we'd like to pay our respects to Ray Wenderlich and his portal. Now it has new name – Kodeco. It is still great source of useful content for developers and we'll even share couple of articles today.

• But, we'll start with great article on secure memory management from Apple Security Engineering and Architecture team – Towards the next generation of XNU memory safety: kalloc_type;
  
  
• And another great read is Apple Developer article with great usages of Dynamic Island – Spotlight on: The Dynamic Island;
  
  
• Moritz Philip Recke explores video preparation for streaming – Converting video files for HLS streaming;
  
  
• Create a Card with an Image Outside its Bounds in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a great walkthrough on SwiftUI with out-of-bounds drawing;
  
  
• Magnus Jensen shows good example of placing button for different device types – Better placements of bottom buttons in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova shares two articles on different aspects of development – Fill bar marks with gradient in Swift Charts to make your bar charts nicer and good hint on app localization review – Check localizable strings with the accented pseudolanguage in Xcode;
  
  
• Great review of recent Bluetooth audio vulnerability in iOS by Guilherme Rambo – SiriSpy - iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri;
  
  
• Another great SwiftUI guide – Create Custom Cell with Placeholder UI Using UIHostingConfiguration by Lee Kah Seng;
  
  
• As promised – couple of great articles on Kodeco – State Restoration in SwiftUI by Tom Elliott will help make your app more magical for users, App Shortcuts: Getting Started by Andrej Vukelic guides on making app better integrated into iOS and Building a Recommendation App With Create ML in SwiftUI Saeed Taheri focused on machine learning practical usages;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan raises important question for those who use SwiftUI – Presenting Sheets: Item, or a Boolean Binding?;
  
  
• Refactoring Swift: Best Practices to succeed by Antoine van der Lee gives good tips on refactoring;
  
  
• Two articles from Marco Eidinger – How to handle popups and alerts in WKWebView on web content navigation cases in iOS apps and good unit conversion guide with new Swift Measurement API – Convert Celsius to Fahrenheit and back in Swift.

That's a lot for this week. Have time for rest and some time to read something interesting!

DRM protected content failed to be streamed to second and third generation Apple TV – issue is introduced in iOS 16. iOS 15.7 still could stream to those devices.

There is no indication, if this would be fixed in upcoming releases.

References:

• iOS 16 breaks AirPlay support for most content on older Apple TV models
• iOS 16 maakt oude Apple TV waardeloos – en dit is waarom (Dutch)

Spotify notifies users to not update their Apple Watches to watchOS 9. Update breaks streaming capabilities. It is seemed that Apple soon might issue an update to address these issues.

Reference: watchOS 9 Breaks Spotify Streaming, Apple Watch Users Urged Not to Update

iOS 16 introduces new extension type that allows third-party streaming devices to be available via standard audio and video routing menu.

This opens an opportunity to provide support for Chromecast or Mirocast streaming devices in system menu. Developers yet to implement this feature in their apps though.

Apple Developer: DeviceDiscoveryExtension

Reference: iOS 16 appears to open the door for Chromecast targets in the AirPlay menu