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Sdk access to filemanager documents directory
Not sure if my question is weird or not, but I didnt find any documentation about an sdks access to an apps documents directory. Im assuming that because sdk is part of the sandbox that it can access and read from the documents directory? i.e. if i used NSFileManager.defaultManager.URLForDirectory( directory = NSCachesDirectory, inDomain = NSUserDomainMask, appropriateForURL = null, create = false, error = null, ) to write a file called "file.txt", then any sdk my app used has the ability to access the contents of said directory? If yes, why isnt this considered something more worth mentioning? usually in filemanager tutorials they never warn about this. FYI: Im asking more for iOS and iPadOs then MacOs.
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How do I tell if i added a sdk as a binary dependency as referred to in the Apple Privacy docs?
In https://developer.apple.com/support/third-party-SDK-requirements/ it says "Signatures are also required in these cases where the listed SDKs are used as binary dependencies. " As I am clueless regarding the technicalities of how sdks are added to a host app, the term binary dependency means nothing to me. For reference, our app uses Cocoapods to install all of the sdks.
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How do I check if a version of an sdk I am using in my app uses a privacy impacting sdk?
I am assuming that even if the app i am using is not listed in the ios list of privacy impacting sdks, if they use a privacy impacting sdk in their sdk, then my app will be required to get the privacy manifest for that privacy impacting sdk: the rule must (logically!) be transitive. So far apple has not sent any email about the app needing to provide that for any of our sdks. but i am worried that maybe apple has not done the check for us yet, and by the time they do , we will be near deadline to submit an app.
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Mar ’24
What is the difference between CLBackgroundActivitySession and the current Always Allow location authorization?
I saw in https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10180/ at 12:51 that the CLBackgroundActivitySession will relaunch the app to resume location updates even if user closed the app (which I interpret to mean swiping the app from app switcher) -- despite the fact that the CLBackgroundActivitySession only require a when-in-use location permission. Since this api can give the app location updates even after the user swiped the app from the switcher, how is the api different than using the current always allow authorisation system to continuously record user movements? For the use case of continously tracking them whenever they move (let's say you wanted to record their driving behaviours), can't the app just launch the CLBackgroundActivitySession and continue to recreate this session every time the app is relaunched to keep on tracking?
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Jun ’23
App Store Review Guideline: Section 5.1.1 (iv) SFSafariViewController
"SafariViewController must be used to visibly present information to users; the controller may not be hidden or obscured by other views or layers. " I am not clear on what this is addressing. If an app has a link to the company's FAQ page on its website, is this page required to show up in the SFViewController? What if it showed up on the Safari web browser instead?
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May ’23
Does the Apple App Store Review Guildelines permit one company to produce multiples apps with similar UI
If you are a company with multiple brands that offer the same app product, can they all have similar UI? so the colours and font styles may differ but the layout and content are the same. for example, if you are a restaurant company and you own multiple different brands of pizza restaurants, and they all offer the same app for pizza delivery, can they all just have same UI? The section on copycats is not clear on this https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#copycats
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Jan ’23
sceneDidEnterBackground( and applicationDidEnterBackground( not getting called when the app is launched in the background
I have a location service running with background mode capabilities, and according to apple docs the app will call sceneDidEnterBackground() or applicationDidEnterBackground() if the app was launched in the background due to location event or if the app was suspended and received a location event. I am not witnessing this happening. These methods are only called when the user moves away from the apps. I am more concerned with the scenario where the app is suspended and gets move to background due to a location event as that is my only point of connection to execute code.
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