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Apple’s Widget Backdoor

Bryce Bostwick

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1.3M views1 year ago2 recommendations

Mobile developmentiOS and SwiftUI

Bryce Bostwick explores undocumented techniques and workarounds to bypass iOS update limits and animate widgets.

github.com/brycebostwick/WidgetAnimation/ This was an incredibly fun one to make. There's a lot more detail that I didn't get to cover here, and a lot of directions that only partially worked that were still interesting — maybe for the future! Shoutout to these open-source repos for a lot of the techniques shown in this video: github.com/octree/ClockHandRotationKit github.com/everettjf/Xcode13ClockHandRotationEffectModifier github.com/TopWidgets/SwingAnimation github.com/tangtiancheng/DouYinComment Thank you Forja Studios for the incredible animation of Beans the Cat. More iOS nonsense over on bryce.co !

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What people say. Recommended as an excellent explanation of how widget apps bypass iOS update limits to achieve smooth animations.

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Animating iOS widgets

u/nekumelonin r/swift • Recommends

On “Animation in widgets”

I know this was years ago now, but in case anyone (or you) are still looking for an answer, here ya go: [video

u/SpaceHonkiOSin r/swift • Mentions

On “How do widget apps stay perfectly synced despite iOS’s update limits?”

Do the tricks mentioned in this video still work?