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stroughtonsmith, 9 days ago to random

You’d be surprised how many devices are just an Android (or Linux) app in a box

stroughtonsmith, 12 days ago to random

All the RAM and virtual memory in the world didn’t stop Final Cut Pro for iPad from cancelling an export the moment I switched to another app in Stage Manager for a split second🥴

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christianselig, 21 days ago to random

Blender folks: I have a 180° frame from YouTube that I want to stretch inside a half-sphere to make it 180° immersive. The image is rectangular, so I'm struggling with the UV map since unwrapping a sphere cuts the corners off, and scaling it up loses the spherical effect. How would you reconcile that?

Blender showing a half-sphere with its "default" UV map where it's just a rectangle with points at the top
Blender showing an unwrapped UV map for a half-sphere showing a circle over artwork

_inside, 22 days ago to random

Apple broke non-String AppEnum in App Intents as of macOS 14.4 / iOS 17.4, so if you have say a widget with configuration parameters where the value is an AppEnum backed by an Int, those parameters just won't work and will always use the default value. Nice! (FB13737909)

Screen recording showing the macOS desktop with a small widget showing “Time: 12:59”, “IntEnum: 1” and “String Enum: Option 3 String”. The widget configuration is opened, and the user selects in the dropdowns “Int Enum: Option 2” and “String Enum: Option 2”. After confirming the selection and going back to the widget, “Int Enum” is still showing the value “1”, and “String Enum” is showing “Option 2 String” as selected in the configuration.

stroughtonsmith, 1 month ago to random

Brutal.
https://mastodon.social/

stroughtonsmith, 2 months ago to random

Apple's reversal on the Epic situation is all well and good, but it doesn't prevent this kind of thing from happening again to a smaller developer who doesn't have a ton of PR or the ear of the EC. And it does highlight that Apple still has all the control to do whatever it wants, with little oversight, under its proposed DMA plan. They have forcibly inserted themselves in between third party app stores/payment providers and those services’ users, free to turn the screws as they wish

danielpunkass, 2 months ago to random

There's something unsettling about the way Apple shares presumably private details like Spotify's use of TestFlight and installation figures. These are relatively minor disclosures, but they send a subtle chill nonetheless. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/03/the-app-store-spotify-and-europes-thriving-digital-music-market/

simonbs, 2 months ago to random

As pointed out by @helge, it would be useful if RealityKit provided an API that extrudes a CGPath to create a 3D model. That would provide a low barrier for apps that do custom rendering with CGPath to endeavor into 3D. I already have a compelling use case for this where I’d like to extrude a graph.

Part of me has an itch to see if I can implement such a converter myself, but another part of me knows that I have way too little experience with 3D to do this well 😄

stroughtonsmith, 2 months ago to random

We're back to this again.

/It is not the user's fault that SpringBoard craps up your launcher with stale app thumbnails going back to the dawn of history./

This is and has always been Apple's fault, and it’s beyond silly to complain that users are doing the wrong thing. They're not.

It's Apple's decision to clutter the launcher, to keep stale thumbnails for months and years, and to tie discarding thumbnails to force-quitting instead of a lighter abstraction. Bad UI

https://gizmodo.com/stop-closing-your-iphone-s-background-apps-1851264816

dimillian, 2 months ago to random

Ice Cubes have some very visible slowdown when scrolling the timeline on the Vision Pro. I’ve tried everything I can, and I can’t isolate it. The profiler gives me nothing interesting, and I’ve been attempting to remove every view one by one and come to no real conclusion. I have no idea what is going on. My guess is that it’s the iOS micro stutters people are telling me about but more visible but I’m not even sure anymore.

stroughtonsmith, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

When Apple remembers to make new iPads again (any day now.), one thing I'd really like to see is an end to the baby apps. I don't want a stripped-down, half-assed 'iPad experience’ for anything. It's been fourteen years and I'm so over it. Give me real desktop-class apps across iPadOS and visionOS, feature for feature, that can scale all the way up to power a 5K External Display or spatial computing workstation.

A reorderable toolbar doesn't make for a 'desktop-class app’.

stroughtonsmith, 3 months ago to random

Apple Weather's 12-hour precipitation map takes so long to load in every time that 9/10 times I just close it and give up. Is that a universal experience? Or are Apple's local CDNs just abnormally slow here?

This progress bar either stalls or takes upwards of 30 seconds to resolve.

twostraws, 3 months ago to random

Quick! The visionOS team are asleep. What should change in visionOS 2?

For me:

• An easier way to get to control center
• Home Screen folders
• Home Screen gesture
• Multiple users, or saved eye/hand settings
• Guest mode until disabled
• Saved window positions between app runs

simonbs, 3 months ago to random

As far as I can tell, there is no way for a visionOS app to place 3D content in the real world while also allowing other apps to show their windows. So users cannot, for example, have a fireplace in one corner of the room, a confetti cannon in the other corner, and then browse Safari in the meantime.

We have volumetric windows, but they seem to act mostly like regular windows. I’d like to mix non-full immersive experiences with windows from other apps.

gn, 3 months ago to random

Iterated on my previous table view transition

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stroughtonsmith, 3 months ago to random

The level of salt in Apple's press release says everything you need to know about the company and the people who run it 😑

stroughtonsmith, 3 months ago to random

Apple will be announcing how it intends to comply with the E.U. Digital Markets Act later today, what concessions it will be making on pricing and fees, and what demands it will place on third-party payment providers and sideloaded apps.

The E.U. will then review Apple’s proposal in the coming weeks, and detail changes if necessary.

I believe the era of the 30% tax may be coming to an end, after 21 years of the iTunes Store.

_Davidsmith, 3 months ago to random

I've been wondering if we'll see a number of 3rd-party PWA site wrapper apps for visionOS at launch. Where you can create a rich bookmark for various websites to more easily separate their windows and use them.

I explored this briefly for Widgetsmith but since it would require making the app 17+ (unrestricted web access) and I suspect Safari would get this ability natively at some point soon it never get promoted to a proper feature but would seem like a useful tool for the initial period.

A screenshot showing an interactive website book mark running within widgetsmith.

stroughtonsmith, 3 months ago to random

A big part of me would like nothing more than to be optimizing my native apps for the Vision Pro launch in a week. It's pretty much the only thing I've wanted to work on since WWDC, and I just know I'm going to be feeling that all year 😂

BasicAppleGuy, 3 months ago to random

Find the Mac Pro.

klemensstrasser, 3 months ago to apple

Question to #visionOS devs!

I have a ToolbarItem with a Menu that has a custom label. On visionOS, there is always a horizontal padding around this button. Any idea how to get rid of that?

stroughtonsmith, 11 months ago to random

Time to start prototyping the kind of internal tooling I'm going to need in a 3D world 🤓

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