I’m thinking about making an app that requires two UWB things to work. I can’t seem to find anything about them and I haven’t got the money to just try it out. The questions are: how far can the iPhone be to a moving UWB chip to make a connection? can this work in the background? If so, is it intermittent? i need to be able to detect moving objects pretty reliably and have the app respond when it isn’t open. I guess a bit like the Covid tracking stuff. would the Apple frameworks allow for me to do this?

Hello! I am currently planning to write open source package manager to and accompanying build system to mac os. The idea is identical to the build and package system of SUSE/openSUSE. The packager creates a repository (a collection of RPMs) and adds other repositories as dependencies. When an RPM is built, it is built inside a container with only access to what was listed as Build Requirements, which it can only grab from the current project, and the dependent repositories. It then publishes the rpms and source rpms. A plan would also be a way of deriving pkg installers by finding the transitive closure of dependencies, giving devs a very clean option for more traditional packaging. There are a few reasons that this improves upon brew: Applications built with this method cannot depend on things that aren't packaged and accessible. It is far easier to port RPMs over from linux RPMs can be signed, this would be enforced It is nice and easy to host your own third party RPM repository without constantly monitoring dependencies. It's a more unix-y way to built pkgs The only issue is that the whole idea is based around being able to whip up a chroot/docker like environment based on Mac OS. Without this, we don't get any guarantees that we are only building against other RPMs that are accessible to the user. But I cannot find any container systems for mac os There was a way of constructing chroots, but not since big sur? Is there an FOSS project for creating containers, or maybe an apple mandated way that I could achieve this?

Hello! I was wondering if there could be a place where developers could suggest features and functionality for the development tools, libraries, apis, etc. I work primarily in research and there are things that no platform does that me and many other people in academia would benefit from. I haven't seen anything offered by Google or Microsoft where developers can talk with the company about the tooling and make suggestions. If apple offered the service than I think they could help a lot of people in small disciplines. In my case, I often prototype in terminal apps. But I would have to rewrite the thing from the ground up if I wanted to make a polished application. This means that none of my research ever makes it to a consumer product (which seems a shame). Anyways, could this be a section of the forum? Would apple devs consider ideas from app devs? All the best James