Downloading Xcode used to be reliable. Now it only takes a single sub-second outage of your network to kick the download into oblivion and make it start again. Please can you put fault tolerance and recivery back into App Store for downloads. Not only does it take 10x as long with all the restarts, on some networks (like Starlink) where sub-second disconnects are expected, it uses up your entire data allowance by (for example) downloading 99% of the 3.21GB and then starting again, and again, and again.... I've reported this on feedback assistant, but did not get a repsonse. Alternativey do we need to go back to days of Mac OSX Tiger and ship developer CDs! I remeber getting my first developer kit back in the day, in a big box full of CDs and printed manuals! I think I still have them somewhere... and UPS would turn up every now and again with updates on CD! Ahhh....

I have a base view which displays a number of subviews at fixed positions. Its for laying out tables in a restaurant. The base view is an image of the restaurant floor, the subviews are images of tables. The user can click on a table and drag it about - so far so good, all working. Tables should only be placed in certain places, for arguments sake we'll say every 100 pixels (x and y) in the base view. While the user drags the table about smoothly, I'd like a "shadow" rectangle to snap to just the nearest available place that's allowable like it's saying "this is where the table will snap to when you drop it" Can someone help this old dinosuar by explaining how to include a temporary rectangle in a SwiftUI view that updates it's position during the DragGesture of the table? Thank you!

Downloading the large simulator files in Xcode used to be robust. Now however I find it almost impossible to download them as even the slightest transient netork outage will cause the download to fail. The process goes something like this... Install fresh Xcode 15, and open a porject that targets iOS. Xcode will prompt you to get the latest simulator: Click on get and the download will begin. After a small sub-second network outage it fails: Click on the info button to get more info: And show details gives: Could not download iOS 17.0 Simulator (21A328). Domain: NSURLErrorDomain Code: -1001 Recovery Suggestion: The request timed out. User Info: { DVTErrorCreationDateKey = "2023-09-20 11:27:17 +0000"; DVTRecoveryBlockKey = "<__NSGlobalBlock__: 0x106dd0810>"; NSLocalizedRecoveryOptions = ( Cancel ); NSRecoveryAttempter = "<_DVTErrorRecoveryHandler: 0x6000010e20b0>"; } -- System Information macOS Version 14.0 (Build 23A339) Xcode 15.0 (22265) (Build 15A240d) Timestamp: 2023-09-20T12:27:17+01:00

I have an app which receives video frames across a network using NDI. My app processes the frames and passes them to an output device (Blackmagic Ultrastudio Monitor 3G) ( which is not a video adapater.) this is all working. I would like to include a video-preview in my app window. I know I can add AVPlayerView (or AVPlayerLayer) to the window. But how can I pass video frames from my frame buffer to an AVPlayer instead of letting it ingest a file or URL? In other words, I don't want the AVPlayer to ingest a URL or HTTP STREAM, I already have the video frames in a memory buffer, how do I feed them to AVPlayerView?