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... 👇🏽show more

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.show more

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?show more

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!show more

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.show more

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.show more

Apple shared element transitions, free in Expo Router. Wrap... the thumbnail in Link.AppleZoom, mark the target on the next screen. You're done. UIKit does the rest. Code below 👇show more

Built this with pure code. No gimmicks. Just insane... engineering + smooth UI.show more

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! 😁show more

Having fun with some weird macOS APIs and Flutter... GPU. I hope apple never implements this 👀show more

Pixar spent years on scenes like this.. recreate this... whole flight scene with just 3 prompts using Higgsfield AI 🧩 claude skill.. character sheet, creature sheet, video prompt. that's it. full workflow below 👇show more

🪄🖼️✨ Custom frame + iPad Pro M4 = Interactive... art display - Art Blocks Bright Moments Kiosker.io Apple - A few details and observations below 👇show more

⚠️ 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.show more

Introducing Apple Pay. An easy, secure and private way... to pay — in-store, online and even in your favorite apps. Your iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and Mac are now your xPortal card.show more

A few showers about this afternoon, some can be... heavy and possibly thundery 🌦️ Dry for Northern Ireland and parts of the northwest Temperatures staying below the May average which is 16 Celsiusshow more

Shelving the #threejs volumetric cloud project for now. Spent... way too much time on this, need a breather😅Some improvements from last time in thread below. Unfinished, dirty code here if you are intrested: #webgl #creativecoding #threejsJourneyshow more

Universal components in Expo using Expo UI! Shared code,... native styling. Every switch, slider and checkbox is SwiftUI on iOS and Material 3 on Android. Code below 👇show more

oh my.. this is over for developers Gemini 3... can create interactive 3D webpage in mins, just a few simple text prompts, it generates all the code you can control millions of particles with your hands and make them form any shape you want tutorial and prompts below:show more

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scanning black, glossy, metallic surfaces is notoriously hard with... scanners, so I spent days reverse engineering my scanner and building my own tooling so that it can punch WAY above its league. I think I succeeded. This level of quality will now be the default on for every mouse, and it takes me <30min per scan now!show more