The macOS status bar is a powerful and convenient place to display essential information or provide quick access to your app’s functionality. By default, the status bar displays a standard system icon, but sometimes you may want to create a more customized experience by using your own views. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through how to use a custom view on the status bar in macOS using Swift and SwiftUI.
Before we get started, make sure you have the following:
Read MoreData security is of utmost importance when dealing with sensitive information. Encryption plays a vital role in safeguarding data from unauthorized access. In this technical blog, we will explore how to encrypt and decrypt files in Swift using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. We will provide a Swift implementation that demonstrates the encryption and decryption process using a symmetric key.
This tutorial allow you to create a simple macOS status bar application (with registered file handle: “Open with…”) for crypt and encrypt file, instantly and easily:
AES is a widely used encryption algorithm that provides a strong level of security. It operates on fixed-size blocks of data and supports key sizes of 128, 192, and 256 bits. AES uses symmetric encryption, meaning the same key is used for both encryption and decryption.
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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:
Read MoreA 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…
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.
While writing this post, the SDK provide these protections callbacks:
Read MoreWeward 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.
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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:
Today a funny 😎 way to use device motion to move using the gravity the objects on your view controller, like this:
Read MoreSometimes 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.
Read MoreToday 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!
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