Excited to announce I'll be hosting a workshop on Shortcuts at @ARCticConference in February! My first time speaking internationally 🎉

Thanks to @adamrush for introducing 1-on-1 sessions at @SwiftLeeds – this year’s session by @Robinkanatzar was what made me send a proposal. And huge thanks to Robin who gave me the idea to pivot from a talk to a workshop concept during our session, then generously reviewed my proposal afterward.

So, who else is heading to ARCtic?

Does anyone follow me or read this who can help me with #appintents in #swift? I want to expose properties of a custom type conforming to AppEntity to subsequent actions in the Shortcuts app.

As a workaround I can already make the output be a JSON String that contains all parameters, but it‘s not as beautiful and easy to use as actions from other apps like the „Get Device Details“ action in Actions by @sindresorhus.

See screenshots + descriptions and https://gist.github.com/bennokress/54184b9a097f73d3971a74a377430931 for more details …

@soka Hey, I‘ve just shared the app with a friend and noticed the German localization of your primary screenshot in the App Store, which is also used as the link preview when sharing. The word „Löffelliste“ does not exist in German, so if I didn’t know what the app does, I couldn’t even figure it out, if I wanted to.

In German we don’t have a real counterpart, so you could use „Von KI erstellte Bucketlisten“ or „… Wunschlisten“ (wish lists). I‘d go with the first, that would be understood 😉

@ivory For the last week since 1.9.3 I‘m getting a lot of links without a nice preview. I‘d say it looks like the ones in the screenshot for about 70% of them.

Is that a known bug and can I do something to fix it?

@juxtacode First of all: congratulations on the launch!

One thing I‘m failing at currently is to integrate JuxtaCode into Tower since it‘s not (yet) supported natively (I‘ve already suggested it to them). If you have the time: could you point me to the reason why the shell script might fail? It crashes JuxtaCode on launch while the diff works.

Tutorial: https://www.git-tower.com/help/guides/integration/custom-diff-tools/mac
Plist File: https://gist.github.com/bennokress/8e9031437c0247635ac71a2ac696a7c8
Shell Script: https://gist.github.com/bennokress/4cf38810ce712e5abf42a95caf38370f

The last talk for the day at #SwiftLeeds by @acbdev is the most creative while covering one of the most dry topics in iOS development (at least to me). Heavy stuff presented with unique slides and an energy to wake anyone up 😅

Really looking forward to day 2 of the conference tomorrow!

Do I have followers that can tell me what’s best practice for handling accessibility with Voice Over for a banner that is shown in an app (SwiftUI, custom component)?

I’m thinking UIAccessibilty.post(notification: .announcement, …) when the banner appears, but should the focus change to the the banner action button or is that confusing? Something else you’d do?

I don’t know other apps that don’t use the standard system notifications, but the custom component is a requirement.

#a11y #SwiftUI