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"Menu items are not visible, except by right-clicking. Users should not have to right click to access menu items"
Hi, I made a macOS app that automatically sets the correct input/output devices depending on the connected speakers/microphones. The App is supposed to live in the background and act automatically, only allowing the users to change through settings which is accessible through the toolbar or through clicking on the toolbar icon to cycle between modes. However, my app was just rejected for not providing UI beyond this. Guideline 4 - Design "Menu items are not visible, except by right-clicking. Users should not have to right click to access menu items." I don't think that this app needs a UI beyond that for something which it is supposed to do automatically. I'm having a hard time to understand what's expected here, should I invent a UI to pass the review and give option to the user to disable that?
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Sep ’24
Setting the default output device using Core Audio stops working after using continuity with AirPods
Hi, made an app which is managing the sound input/output for the user and I'm facing an unexpected behavior which can be replicated using the Apple's HALLab tool too. Initially the app is able to set the input/output AudioDevice and everything works as expected however if you switch from your Mac to your iPhone when using AirPods Pro and switch back again the app is no longer able to set the output device. There's no error, it simply switches back to AirPods immediately. You can replicate the issue on the HALLab(an app provided by Apple as "additional tools for Xcode"). How to: Open HALLab, put on your AirPods and play some media. Try out changing the input and output source and study the expected behavior Unlock your iPhone, play some media and wait for the AirPods Pro to switch to the iPhone. Go back to your Mac and play some media and wait for AirPods to switch to Mac Try changing the output source on HALLab, notice that the source immediately reverses back to AirPods, which is the unexpected behavior. Changing the source from the System Settings keeps working as expected. Any ideas on what's going on and how to handle that? I'm on MacOS 15.1 using the following code to set the device: private func setDevice(deviceID: AudioDeviceID, forType type: AudioDeviceType) throws { guard isDeviceAvailable(deviceID) else { throw AudioDeviceError.deviceNotAvailable } print("setting the device.") var propertyAddress = AudioObjectPropertyAddress( mSelector: type == .input ? kAudioHardwarePropertyDefaultInputDevice : kAudioHardwarePropertyDefaultOutputDevice, mScope: kAudioObjectPropertyScopeGlobal, mElement: kAudioObjectPropertyElementMain ) let dataSize = UInt32(MemoryLayout<AudioDeviceID>.size) var mutableDeviceID = deviceID // Create a mutable copy let status = AudioObjectSetPropertyData(AudioObjectID(kAudioObjectSystemObject), &propertyAddress, 0, nil, dataSize, &mutableDeviceID) guard status == noErr else { throw AudioDeviceError.deviceNotSet(status: status) } }
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Sep ’24
How can I get the public key from SecCertificate? And a few other things
Hi, I'm trying to achieve the following OpenSSL workflow in Swift. I have this intermediate certificate from Let's encrypt and I want to extract the public key from it and then hash it with SHA-256 and finally encide it in base64. The OpenSSL commands that achieve this look like this: openssl x509 -in isrgrootx1.pem -pubkey -noout > publickey.pem openssl rsa -pubin -in publickey.pem -outform der | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | openssl enc -base64 I've tried Security, CommonCrypto, CryptoKit frameworks with no success. I was able to get the public key out of the certificate but its PEM representation seems to slightly differ from what I get with OpenSSL. At the beginning of the public jet, the OpenSSL version has a string that is not present on what I get with Swift but the rest is the same. This is the Swift code to use: import Foundation import Security import CommonCrypto // Step 1: Extract public key from the certificate func extractPublicKey(from certificate: SecCertificate) -> SecKey? { // Extract public key from the certificate var publicKey: SecKey? if let publicKeyRef = SecCertificateCopyKey(certificate) { publicKey = publicKeyRef } return publicKey } // Step 2: Calculate SHA-256 hash of the public key func calculateSHA256(of data: Data) -> Data { var hash = [UInt8](repeating: 0, count: Int(CC_SHA256_DIGEST_LENGTH)) data.withUnsafeBytes { _ = CC_SHA256($0.baseAddress, CC_LONG(data.count), &hash) } return Data(hash) } // Step 3: Encode data as base64 func base64EncodedString(from data: Data) -> String { return data.base64EncodedString() } // Step 4: Main function to perform all steps func processCertificate(certificate: SecCertificate) { // Step 1: Extract public key guard let publicKey = extractPublicKey(from: certificate) else { return } // Step 2: Export public key as data guard let publicKeyData = SecKeyCopyExternalRepresentation(publicKey, nil) as Data? else { print("Failed to export public key data") return } // Step 3: Calculate SHA-256 hash of the public key let sha256Hash = calculateSHA256(of: publicKeyData) // Step 4: Encode SHA-256 hash as base64 let base64EncodedHash = base64EncodedString(from: sha256Hash) print("SHA-256 hash of public key (base64 encoded): \(base64EncodedHash)") } This is the Public Key I get with OpenSSL: -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- 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 -----END PUBLIC KEY----- and this is what I get with Swift: -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- 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 -----END PUBLIC KEY----- Interestingly, if I use the Swift version of the Public Key I get and then run the second command I still get the correct final result. Unfortunately in Swift I don't get the correct final result. I suspect it must be something about headers since I was able to get the correct output on OpenSSL with the public key I got using the Swift. Any ideas?
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Apr ’24