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Looks like Apple Maps has received the SwiftUI Treatment on iOS 27…

Looks like Apple Maps has received the SwiftUI Treatment on iOS 27…

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Two hours on a train without WiFi means reverse engineering the Liquid Glass...liquid...effect? Reasonably simple API to work with: CASDFLayer, CASDFElementLayer and a CASDFEffect subclass, in this case CASDFFillEffect. You can wrap up in a UIView subclass, overriding layerClass to play nicely with higher-level UIKit animation abstractions.

Two hours on a train without WiFi means reverse engineering the Liquid Glass...liquid...effect? Reasonably simple API to work with: CASDFLayer, CASDFElementLayer and a CASDFEffect subclass, in this case CASDFFillEffect. You can wrap up in a UIView subclass, overriding layerClass to play nicely with higher-level UIKit animation abstractions.

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UISheetPresentationController has a private _hidden property, and corresponding _setHidden: setter, that Apple Maps uses to declutter the UI when multiple sheet are stacked on top of one another. Combine this with some animated changes the presenting view controller's selectedDetentIdentifier full the full Maps experience.

UISheetPresentationController has a private _hidden property, and corresponding _setHidden: setter, that Apple Maps uses to declutter the UI when multiple sheet are stacked on top of one another. Combine this with some animated changes the presenting view controller's selectedDetentIdentifier full the full Maps experience.

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Spent some time reverse engineering Apple Music and Podcast's search chips UI 👀 Interestingly, there's no public or private API to achieve this, _and_ both Music and Podcasts have different implementations of the identical interface 🫠 Anyone interested in an article on this?

Spent some time reverse engineering Apple Music and Podcast's search chips UI 👀 Interestingly, there's no public or private API to achieve this, _and_ both Music and Podcasts have different implementations of the identical interface 🫠 Anyone interested in an article on this?

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It's hard not to add fuel to the "is SwiftUI production-ready" fire when this is the state of the "best way to build an app" 6 years after the framework was released... 🙃 ~30 lines of (admittedly sloppy) but simple code, unusable on iOS 26. Oh! And it works just fine on 18 🫠

It's hard not to add fuel to the "is SwiftUI production-ready" fire when this is the state of the "best way to build an app" 6 years after the framework was released... 🙃 ~30 lines of (admittedly sloppy) but simple code, unusable on iOS 26. Oh! And it works just fine on 18 🫠

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⚠️ Private API of the day... Cracked the case of Apple's custom share sheet in MobileSlideShow (Photos). UIActivityViewController has a private `setCustomViewController:` method that lets you add a custom view as a header. I combined this with a custom view controller transition for the full Photos effect.

⚠️ Private API of the day... Cracked the case of Apple's custom share sheet in MobileSlideShow (Photos). UIActivityViewController has a private `setCustomViewController:` method that lets you add a custom view as a header. I combined this with a custom view controller transition for the full Photos effect.

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Built a circular slider with a couple of CAShapeLayers, a CAGradientLayer...oh, and _UILiquidLensView! The lens view takes surprisingly little work to get up and running. Truly an incredibly impressive bit of engineering from the UIKit team. You initialise the lens, call setLifted:animated: and then any changes to frame, bounds or center are automatically animated with these beautiful blobby transforms.

Built a circular slider with a couple of CAShapeLayers, a CAGradientLayer...oh, and _UILiquidLensView! The lens view takes surprisingly little work to get up and running. Truly an incredibly impressive bit of engineering from the UIKit team. You initialise the lens, call setLifted:animated: and then any changes to frame, bounds or center are automatically animated with these beautiful blobby transforms.

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Spent some time preparing Duet for iOS 26. Pretty happy with how this interaction turned out! In a shocking turn of events, I ended up using SwiftUI for the two map style buttons because, despite UIButton.Configuration being great, it’s got noting on SUI’s ButtonStyle API.

Spent some time preparing Duet for iOS 26. Pretty happy with how this interaction turned out! In a shocking turn of events, I ended up using SwiftUI for the two map style buttons because, despite UIButton.Configuration being great, it’s got noting on SUI’s ButtonStyle API.

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Been a while, but here's your private API of the day... UIKit's fluid slider, as seen in Apple Music, Podcasts, SpringBoard and more. UISlider has private `_sliderStyle` and `sliderConfiguration` properties. Here, the slider has a style of 110, and the configuration is an instance of the private `_UISliderFluidConfiguration` class.

Been a while, but here's your private API of the day... UIKit's fluid slider, as seen in Apple Music, Podcasts, SpringBoard and more. UISlider has private `_sliderStyle` and `sliderConfiguration` properties. Here, the slider has a style of 110, and the configuration is an instance of the private `_UISliderFluidConfiguration` class.

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With a bit of UIKit Jiggery-Pokery™ you can display arbitrary views as the content of a segmented control’s segments. In this case, a _UIHostingView featuring SwiftUI Text with an animated numeric content transition. Although probably doable _with_, no private APIs used here!

With a bit of UIKit Jiggery-Pokery™ you can display arbitrary views as the content of a segmented control’s segments. In this case, a _UIHostingView featuring SwiftUI Text with an animated numeric content transition. Although probably doable _with_, no private APIs used here!

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I promised you a zinger, so here's your private API of the day... Meet _UIContextMenuAccessoryView and UIContextMenuInteractionDelegate_Private's _contextMenuInteraction(_:accessoriesForMenuWithConfiguration:) method. This enables iMessage-like accessory views to be displayed alongside a context menu. Quite a lot going on here, so let me know if you're interested in a blog post 👀

I promised you a zinger, so here's your private API of the day... Meet _UIContextMenuAccessoryView and UIContextMenuInteractionDelegate_Private's _contextMenuInteraction(_:accessoriesForMenuWithConfiguration:) method. This enables iMessage-like accessory views to be displayed alongside a context menu. Quite a lot going on here, so let me know if you're interested in a blog post 👀

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Took some time, but here’s a Tint Colour settings screen for an upcoming app I’m working on 🌈👀 The animation comprises of _actual_ UIKit components, so dark mode, dynamic type, etc. are fully supported. Also, couldn’t resists using the private variableBlur CAFilter! 😁

Took some time, but here’s a Tint Colour settings screen for an upcoming app I’m working on 🌈👀 The animation comprises of _actual_ UIKit components, so dark mode, dynamic type, etc. are fully supported. Also, couldn’t resists using the private variableBlur CAFilter! 😁

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Interesting new private property of UINavigationItem added in iOS 18, _preferredNavigationBarVisibility. This is really handy if only your detail view requires a nav bar. No need to set isHidden in viewDidAppear(_:) and viewWillDisappear(_:). Here's an example in Duet...

Interesting new private property of UINavigationItem added in iOS 18, _preferredNavigationBarVisibility. This is really handy if only your detail view requires a nav bar. No need to set isHidden in viewDidAppear(_:) and viewWillDisappear(_:). Here's an example in Duet...

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Ooh here's a fun one! 👀 UISheetPresentationController.Detent has a private _fullDetent method that, when applied to a UISheetPresentationController's detents array, enables switching between a sheet and a full screen modal with a gesture... Super clean interaction!

Ooh here's a fun one! 👀 UISheetPresentationController.Detent has a private _fullDetent method that, when applied to a UISheetPresentationController's detents array, enables switching between a sheet and a full screen modal with a gesture... Super clean interaction!

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Spent some time reverse engineering the Apple Maps sheet UI on iPad. This can be achieved with a few private UIKit APIs... 3 private properties of UISheetPresentationController: horizontalAlignment, wantsBottomAttached and marginInRegularWidthRegularHeight. Code below... 👇🏽

Spent some time reverse engineering the Apple Maps sheet UI on iPad. This can be achieved with a few private UIKit APIs... 3 private properties of UISheetPresentationController: horizontalAlignment, wantsBottomAttached and marginInRegularWidthRegularHeight. Code below... 👇🏽

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I may or may not have spent a *bit* of time this morning recreating the new iPhone Duo folding animation. I’m using the MacBook’s screen hinge sensor (found by sam henri gold), ScreenCaptureKit, and whole load of private CoreAnimation API… 🫠

I may or may not have spent a bit of time this morning recreating the new iPhone Duo folding animation. I’m using the MacBook’s screen hinge sensor (found by sam henri gold), ScreenCaptureKit, and whole load of private CoreAnimation API… 🫠

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Convincing confetti effects are pretty hard to come by in iOS apps and, to no one's surprise, Apple does it best... So! I spent some time reverse engineering the private ChatKit framework's CKConfettiEffectView. More QuartzCore SPI here than you can shake a stick at, but CAEmitterBehavior is doing a lot of the heavy lifting.

Convincing confetti effects are pretty hard to come by in iOS apps and, to no one's surprise, Apple does it best... So! I spent some time reverse engineering the private ChatKit framework's CKConfettiEffectView. More QuartzCore SPI here than you can shake a stick at, but CAEmitterBehavior is doing a lot of the heavy lifting.

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3D, folding map view built with MKMapView and a few well organised _UIPortalViews... Used CATransformLayer and CATransform3D to create the 3D effect. All animatable with UIKit animation APIs too which is a nice bonus - UIViewPropertyAnimator doing the work here.

3D, folding map view built with MKMapView and a few well organised _UIPortalViews... Used CATransformLayer and CATransform3D to create the 3D effect. All animatable with UIKit animation APIs too which is a nice bonus - UIViewPropertyAnimator doing the work here.

80,165 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Custom view controller transition I built at work this week. A few interesting engineering challenges… 1) Presenting the half sheet during the custom transition. 2) Animating the frame/transform of an MKMapView! 3) Ensuring continuity of the activity indicator before/after the transition begins/ends. Details below 👇🏽

Custom view controller transition I built at work this week. A few interesting engineering challenges… 1) Presenting the half sheet during the custom transition. 2) Animating the frame/transform of an MKMapView! 3) Ensuring continuity of the activity indicator before/after the transition begins/ends. Details below 👇🏽

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