marcoarment

clarko, 11 days ago to random

WWDC Wishlist 💻

A new entitlement for Live Activities to get guaranteed indefinite background execution.

Then apps with very long-running local tasks (like video export) can do it in the background and SHOW PROGRESS.

Why tie it to a Live Activity? Because they’re always user-initiated, always visible, and can always be cancelled! Less opportunity for abuse.

Why an entitlement? Because this is a special case. Most Live Activities are network-bound and should use push notifications to update.

marcoarment, 12 days ago to random

This one's for @siracusa.

image/png

marcoarment, 13 days ago to random

Just picked up my headphones and accidentally knocked my vibraslap into my bell, and marveled at the glorious stupidity of the world I've created for myself

janl, 14 days ago to random

The @atpfm summer collection just arrived and I thought it’d be fun to put together my entire set. 👚👕🧢☕️

marcoarment, 14 days ago to random

I tried that, and it was a bit much.

Pure black for the icon color also felt too visually busy.

Busyness has been the hardest factor to balance with per-row settings icons. If I end up not shipping them, it'll most likely be because I decided it looked too busy.
https://mastodon.social/@Bobbyp/112530289092243549

marcoarment, 14 days ago to random

Lots of people (including Apple) put full-color icons on each top-level row in Settings these days.

I'm experimenting with using monochrome SF Symbols there. I may not ship it this way, but it's kinda fun, and it lets me use the same icons that are used for the corresponding features throughout the rest of the app.

Maybe that improves consistency and understanding, especially since I don't currently have localized strings.

marcoarment, 14 days ago to random

I’m surprised at watchOS' relative lack of display-size accessibility options compared to iOS.

I know it's a hard problem with such tiny UIs, but there's more that could be done. Not just in-app text: it's also REALLY needed in watch faces and complications.

My suggestion: Display Zoom. Let the larger-size watches render the UI like the smaller watches, scaled up to their screens.

We're all designing our UIs to fit the small watches, so everything should just work.
https://mastodon.social/@harshil/112530200966403789

marcoarment, 14 days ago to random

Do we have a standard "opens external app" SF Symbol?

I'm using “arrow.up.forward" here, but I don't know if there's a more canonical one.

(Tapping this button opens the iOS Settings app to my app's notification settings via UIApplication.openNotificationSettingsURLString.)

marcoarment, 15 days ago to random

My favorite thing about tethering is

nothing

nothing is my favorite thing about tethering

Please, cellular Macs already!

(Today's anti-favorite: if the phone loses reception for even a moment — common on trains! — it disconnects tethering and never reconnects. You're just offline until you notice. Then you need to reconnect from the Mac's Wi-Fi menu again, after waiting for the option to become available, a process that's almost as slow as dialing up your ISP with a modem in the 1900s.)

NanoRaptor, 21 days ago to random

What are some numbers in your field that anyone else in the field would identify without even thinking about it, but folk outside may have no idea. Just the numbers, no explanations. Yet.

105 148 210 297 420 594 841 1189

boxofrain, 23 days ago to random

@marcoarment
Have you been keeping something secret?
https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/112480395930414375

marcoarment, 26 days ago to random

Anyone using the SwiftUI SubscriptionStoreView with the “Restore Subscription" button?

i.e.

SubscriptionStoreView(…)
.storeButton(.visible, for: .restorePurchases)

Does the resulting "Restore Subscription" button in the UI, uh… work? For anyone?

I can't get it to do anything. Prompts for password, then does nothing, no IAP SwiftUI callbacks are called, and nothing is delivered to Transaction.updates.

moridin, 27 days ago to random

@atpfm When you’re a subscriber to the bootleg feed and it expires, you still get episodes in the feed but the free ones instead. How can I tell which episodes are not the bootleg feeds? @caseyliss @siracusa @marcoarment

ashah, 27 days ago to random

@marcoarment hey I’m thinking of getting a MacBook Air as a “bumming around computer” just like you have one.

Which screen size/specs
do you have? I’m trying to find the episode where you talk about it but am struggling to find it?

marcoarment, 28 days ago to random

"The iPad Pro doesn’t need to run macOS, but the answer to why an iPad Pro can’t do something a Mac can do, shouldn’t be to carry two kinds of computers with the same M-series chips, with the same RAM, with the same storage, and do different things on each.”
https://duck.haus/@joesteel/112448850000669090