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How to get NSPersistentCloudKitContainer to sync in background
Is it possible for an app using NSPersistentCloudKitContainer to enable sync in the background, if so, how? Install app on your iPhone and iPad, create some data, it automatically syncs to both and life is good Close the iPad app Modify the data on iPhone Desired behavior: The backgrounded iPad app should sync (even if it takes a while) and be informed that its local database has finished syncing or similarly that changes were made. The use case is I want to reload my widget when data changes so it's up-to-date, so I need my app to sync it in the background, then notify when it's complete to be able to trigger the widget reload. I am concerned it will be a poor widget experience if it's always showing stale data until they manually open the app to initiate sync - kind of defeats the purpose of widgets. ha According to this post, they found sync is never run in the background. Is this not the case, or has it changed in iOS 15? Thanks!
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How to set content scroll view when using SwiftUI ScrollView in UIKit view controller?
I have a UIViewController that initially does not display any scrollable content, but later on I add a child view controller that does scroll - a UIHostingController whose rootView is a GeometryReader containing a ScrollView. The problem is when you scroll the UINavigationBar remains transparent I’m sure because it couldn’t find a scroll view in the view hierarchy. There is an API to specify which scroll view to use but that’s a UIScrollView. How can I tell it about my SwiftUI scroll view? viewController.setContentScrollView(scrollView, for: .bottom)
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How to migrate NSPersistentCloudKitContainer to App Group to access in Widget
I have shipped an app that utilizes Core Data in CloudKit viaNSPersistentCloudKitContainer. I now want to add a widget that can query for the current data to display. It's my understanding you need to migrate this to a new location available to a shared App Group. How do you do this? container = NSPersistentCloudKitContainer(name: "AppName") container.loadPersistentStores { description, error in //handle error } container.viewContext.mergePolicy = NSMergeByPropertyObjectTrumpMergePolicy container.viewContext.automaticallyMergesChangesFromParent = true
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How to get "file" information from MPMediaItem
The Music macOS app shows various info about a song in the Get Info window. Most of this metadata is available in the iOS SDK via MPMediaItem. I'm wanting to access the information displayed in the File tab but I'm not seeing several pieces of data in the API. Is this possible? □ Kind - Apple Music AAC audio file - ? ☑︎ Duration - 3:00 - playbackDuration □ Size - 10 MB - ? □ Bit rate - 256 kbps - ? □ Sample rate - 44.100 kHz - ? □ Date modified - 1/1/2001 - ? ☑︎ Date added - 1/1/2001 - dateAdded □ Cloud status - Apple Music - ? ☑︎ Location - Cloud - isCloudItem
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Possible to query for song by Apple Music trackId?
Given an Apple Music trackId is it possible to query the user’s media library to see if they’ve added it to their library? Something like: let predicate = MPMediaPropertyPredicate(value: "1440818675", forProperty: MPMediaItemPropertyPersistentID) let query = MPMediaQuery(filterPredicates: Set([predicate])) let songs = query.items let isInLibrary = !songs.isEmpty
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Is it possible to get a song's bit rate from MPMediaItem?
I'd like to get a song's bit rate, for example 256 kbps, from a MPMediaItem retrieved via MPMediaPickerController. Is this possible? I tried to get it via: AVAsset(url: mediaItem.assetURL).tracks.first?.estimatedDataRate but this is 0 for most songs I've tried, and it's 127999 for a song that's really 64 kbps. I can get the sample rate of 44100 via: let trackDescription = AVAsset(url: url).tracks.first?.formatDescriptions.first let basicDescription = CMAudioFormatDescriptionGetStreamBasicDescription(trackDescription as! CMAudioFormatDescription)?.pointee let sampleRate = basicDescription.mSampleRate Supposedly one can calculate the bit rate given the sample rate, bit depth, and channels count, but I'm seeing mBitsPerChannel is always 0 in my testing.
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How to get NSPersistentCloudKitContainer to sync in background
Is it possible for an app using NSPersistentCloudKitContainer to enable sync in the background, if so, how? Install app on your iPhone and iPad, create some data, it automatically syncs to both and life is good Close the iPad app Modify the data on iPhone Desired behavior: The backgrounded iPad app should sync (even if it takes a while) and be informed that its local database has finished syncing or similarly that changes were made. The use case is I want to reload my widget when data changes so it's up-to-date, so I need my app to sync it in the background, then notify when it's complete to be able to trigger the widget reload. I am concerned it will be a poor widget experience if it's always showing stale data until they manually open the app to initiate sync - kind of defeats the purpose of widgets. ha According to this post, they found sync is never run in the background. Is this not the case, or has it changed in iOS 15? Thanks!
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How to set content scroll view when using SwiftUI ScrollView in UIKit view controller?
I have a UIViewController that initially does not display any scrollable content, but later on I add a child view controller that does scroll - a UIHostingController whose rootView is a GeometryReader containing a ScrollView. The problem is when you scroll the UINavigationBar remains transparent I’m sure because it couldn’t find a scroll view in the view hierarchy. There is an API to specify which scroll view to use but that’s a UIScrollView. How can I tell it about my SwiftUI scroll view? viewController.setContentScrollView(scrollView, for: .bottom)
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How to migrate NSPersistentCloudKitContainer to App Group to access in Widget
I have shipped an app that utilizes Core Data in CloudKit viaNSPersistentCloudKitContainer. I now want to add a widget that can query for the current data to display. It's my understanding you need to migrate this to a new location available to a shared App Group. How do you do this? container = NSPersistentCloudKitContainer(name: "AppName") container.loadPersistentStores { description, error in //handle error } container.viewContext.mergePolicy = NSMergeByPropertyObjectTrumpMergePolicy container.viewContext.automaticallyMergesChangesFromParent = true
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How to get "file" information from MPMediaItem
The Music macOS app shows various info about a song in the Get Info window. Most of this metadata is available in the iOS SDK via MPMediaItem. I'm wanting to access the information displayed in the File tab but I'm not seeing several pieces of data in the API. Is this possible? □ Kind - Apple Music AAC audio file - ? ☑︎ Duration - 3:00 - playbackDuration □ Size - 10 MB - ? □ Bit rate - 256 kbps - ? □ Sample rate - 44.100 kHz - ? □ Date modified - 1/1/2001 - ? ☑︎ Date added - 1/1/2001 - dateAdded □ Cloud status - Apple Music - ? ☑︎ Location - Cloud - isCloudItem
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Possible to query for song by Apple Music trackId?
Given an Apple Music trackId is it possible to query the user’s media library to see if they’ve added it to their library? Something like: let predicate = MPMediaPropertyPredicate(value: "1440818675", forProperty: MPMediaItemPropertyPersistentID) let query = MPMediaQuery(filterPredicates: Set([predicate])) let songs = query.items let isInLibrary = !songs.isEmpty
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Is it possible to get a song's bit rate from MPMediaItem?
I'd like to get a song's bit rate, for example 256 kbps, from a MPMediaItem retrieved via MPMediaPickerController. Is this possible? I tried to get it via: AVAsset(url: mediaItem.assetURL).tracks.first?.estimatedDataRate but this is 0 for most songs I've tried, and it's 127999 for a song that's really 64 kbps. I can get the sample rate of 44100 via: let trackDescription = AVAsset(url: url).tracks.first?.formatDescriptions.first let basicDescription = CMAudioFormatDescriptionGetStreamBasicDescription(trackDescription as! CMAudioFormatDescription)?.pointee let sampleRate = basicDescription.mSampleRate Supposedly one can calculate the bit rate given the sample rate, bit depth, and channels count, but I'm seeing mBitsPerChannel is always 0 in my testing.
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