I want to introduce you to the new “App Icon Maker“, a simple and free utility for macOS that helps you to convert the images in the 3 Apple formats, @1x, @2x, and @3x.
macOS – App Icon Maker free utility
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Swift – Identify misspelled words and errors in phrases
A simple tutorial for find and identify the wrong typed words of the user in your application using the UITextChecker framework and the NatualLanguage framework.
Final result:
Read MoreSwift – Native OCR reader
Starting from iOS 11, Apple introduces a new framework called Vision.
The Vision framework performs face and face landmark detection, text detection, barcode recognition, image registration, and general feature tracking. Vision also allows the use of custom Core ML models for tasks like classification or object detection.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision
Today we implement with few lines of code one of the simplest features of this beautiful framework, the OCR reader.
Read MoreCreate your own XCode template
Very often you create a new class or a new view controller and customize it before start coding.
Every time you select from XCode, New File, the file type and add it to your project, like this:
Read MoreHacking “Laica Body Touch” weight scale with iOS
I have bought a new weight scale that works with or without a smartphone.
There is a proprietary app, called Laica Body Touch.
Problem with this app are:
Read MoreCoreML – Twitter sentiment analysis
Today a post about the new Apple framework – CoreML – a machine learning framework to use your trained data-model inside iOS apps.
https://developer.apple.com/machine-learning/core-ml/
Documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreml
The example of today is about machine learning to identify the mood of a collection of tweets (#apple, @apple, #covid-19, #love, etc…).
Swift – Use ReplayKit to record a movie from your app
Today I want to show you how to use the Apple ReplayKit, to record a full-screen video without a status-bar from your app and save it in your library without using external libraries like GPUImages or something like that.
Let’s start!
Read MoreConnect to Wifi network from code – Swift
With the NetworkExtension framework, you can customize and extend the core networking features of iOS and macOS. Specifically, you can:
- Change the system’s Wi-Fi configuration
- Integrate your app with the hotspot network subsystem (Hotspot Helper)
- Create and manage VPN configurations, using the built-in VPN protocols (Personal VPN) or a custom VPN protocol
- Implement an on-device content filter
- Implement an on-device DNS proxy
The NetworkExtension framework is available in macOS and iOS, but not all features are available on both platforms and some features have specific restrictions (for example, some features only work on supervised iOS devices). The documentation for each feature describes these restrictions.
SWIFT – Create filled array using map
A useful trick using .map:
Read MoreXCode – Debug macOS PreferencesPane applications
You need to build a System preference panel extension for your app but you’re unable to debug it from XCode due to Apple System Integrity lock?
Let’s see how!
But how to debug this extension?
Latest macOS block the execution or the debug of all system application. Now all apps are signed and if you try to attach a debugger you’ll receive this error:
Message from debugger: cannot attach to process due to System Integrity Protection