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11 August 202211 August 2022

Swift – Simple full screen loader

Hello,

resuming an old post, that help you to create an UIAlert extension to show a modal popup, https://www.albertopasca.it/whiletrue/objective-c-modal-view-in-navigation-and-tabbar-controller-projects/ , I’ve created a new modern implementation that use UIWindow.

The scope is to show a spinner (or a Lottie spinner, or whatever you prefer), centered in the screen with automatic or manually dismission. Background can be blurred or colored, like this screen:

11 April 202211 April 2022

macOS – Disable microphone while typing

A simple application, written in Swift and Apple Script to disable the macOS global microphone (specially during a Zoom/Teams/Skype/whatever call).

The idea is to avoid sending the “chunky” sound to the others, during a call…

How it works

25 March 202225 March 2022

iOS – Secure app sensitive information

Today I want to share a fresh new Swift Package SDK that helps you to hide sensitive informations on your app, like banking apps, in a easy way!

You’ll be notified via callback (optional) when a defined rule occur, and apply the right custom protection you prefer or simply use the integrated blur that cover your app automatically.

Available protections

While writing this post, the SDK provide these protections callbacks:

QuickTime screen recording
iOS screen recording
iOS native Airplay / Mirroring
Background app screenshot cache
User taken screenshots

8 March 20229 March 2022

DIY: Hack Weward for iOS

Weward is a mobile app that basically pay-you if you walk; offer also a price exchange and lots of offers inside the app.

The first time I opened it, I see at glance that I can hack it… and of course you can do it by yourself, very quick and easily. Let’s see how.

26 November 202127 November 2021

Swift – Circular button bubbles with gravity

iOS bubble button circular gravity animated

Today I want to show how to use the GravitySDK 🚀 (as discussed in the previous post) to make an animated bubbles buttons that falling around with gravity, like this:

19 November 202127 November 2021

Swift – Have fun with GravityBehavior and DynamicAnimator

Today a funny 😎 way to use device motion to move using the gravity the objects on your view controller, like this:

7 December 202016 November 2020

Swift – UIView gradient extension

Sometimes can be useful to add a gradient on a UIView. This simple UIView extension helps you “coloryze” your screen.

Let see how to use and how is implemented.

16 November 202013 October 2020

iOS – Data Leakage: App background cache

Today I want to share a simple way to retrieve user data from a native iOS cache image, automatically generated when your app goes in background.

You can retrieve this kind of informations if your phone was lost or Jailbreaked or connecting it to your pc and open an old backup. You can use tools like iBackup Viewer and more…

Let’s see how it works!

10 August 202022 July 2020

Swift / C – Lock macOS programmatically

PrivateFrameworks are always a joy.

Today, for a personal project I discovered how to use private Login.framework to lock programmatically via code (Swift or C) the screen of my mac book.

28 June 202028 January 2022

Swift – 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.