Tag: Runtime

All the articles with the tag "Runtime".

• Forbidden Controls in Catalyst: Optimize Interface for Mac

  Published: 22 Sep, 2020

  • 7 min read

  Investigating why certain UIKit controls throw runtime exceptions in Catalyst's 'Optimize Interface for Mac' mode and discovering which controls are forbidden.

• Disabling Keyboard Avoidance in SwiftUI's UIHostingController

  Published: 21 Sep, 2020

  • 6 min read

  Fixing unwanted keyboard avoidance behavior in UIHostingController using runtime dynamic subclassing to override keyboard notification handling methods.

• InterposeKit — Elegant Swizzling in Swift

  Published: 31 May, 2020

  • 3 min read

  Introducing InterposeKit, a modern Swift library for elegant method swizzling that leverages Swift 5.2's callAsFunction for type-safe Objective-C method interception.

• UIKit Debug Mode

  Published: 9 Jan, 2015

  • 2 min read

  Unlock hidden UIKit debugging features by bypassing Apple's InternalBuild checks to access secret flags for logging touches, gestures, and animations.

• Retrofitting containsString: on iOS 7

  Published: 17 Jul, 2014

  • 1 min read

  Backport iOS 8's convenient NSString containsString: method to iOS 7 using runtime patching that won't conflict with Apple's implementation.

• A Story About Swizzling "the Right Way™" and Touch Forwarding

  Published: 4 Jul, 2014

  • 8 min read

  Learn why traditional method swizzling breaks UIKit's touch forwarding and discover a better approach that preserves _cmd integrity.

• Hacking with Aspects

  Published: 5 May, 2014

  • 3 min read

  Explore how Apple detects popover presentation in UIImagePickerController and learn to bypass the restriction using my Aspects library.

• Fixing What Apple Doesn't

  Published: 4 Jan, 2014

  • 2 min read

  Fix the misaligned label in iOS 7's printer controller by swizzling UIPrinterSearchingView's layoutSubviews method.