while (true) { }

28 September 202022 July 2020

Send data between Apple devices (iPhone/iPad/macOS) using Multipeer Connectivity

Today I want to introduce an Apple framework, called Multipeer Connectivity.

“The Multipeer Connectivity framework supports the discovery of services provided by nearby devices and supports communicating with those services through message-based data, streaming data, and resources (such as files). In iOS, the framework uses infrastructure Wi-Fi networks, peer-to-peer Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth personal area networks for the underlying transport. In macOS and tvOS, it uses infrastructure Wi-Fi, peer-to-peer Wi-Fi, and Ethernet.”

Reference here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/multipeerconnectivity

7 September 202022 July 2020

Swift – Useful NotificationName extension

Very often you should use a notification name in your code and every time you miss something, you write the wrong name and so on…

I want to simplify the coding like, so I use this solution. Easy and simple for me and I want to share:

24 August 202022 July 2020

macOS – App Icon Maker free utility

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.

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.

27 July 202022 July 2020

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:

12 July 20204 June 2020

iOS – Symbolicate crash logs from published application

A simple memo on how to symbolicate and read the crash logs from Apple in order to identify where your crash happened.

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.

14 June 20203 June 2020

Create 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:

31 May 202030 May 2020

Insects Hunter – AR shooter for iOS

Today I want to tell you what happened on my latest iOS game released, “Insects Hunter – AR Shooter“… and why the insects?

Before starting, download it from App Store (it’s free for a couple of months!

Insects Hunter – AR Shooter

I started the development of this simple game during the quarantine, the scope was to kill all the COVID-19 viruses that appear around your photo-camera.

17 May 20207 May 2020

Hacking “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: