Seb Vidal
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iOS Developer 👨🏽💻 Chairman of the _UINavigationBarPalette fan club.
Manchester, England
Joined June 2012
Dropped a new article over on my blog detailing how to use UIKit's private _UIContextMenuAccessoryView API. This internal class is used by Apple in the Messages app to display the Tapback picker when a context menu is presented. Link below 👇🏽
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Cool but can someone at Apple please fix the corner radii of the buttons in the Quick Type bar…we’re on beta 3 and it’s driving me insane 🥲.
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On this topic – what would make most sense in terms of how the post is organised?. Grouped, i.e. views, controls, navigation, etc.? Alphabetical? Something else?. It's gonna be a mammoth read. I'm about 11% of the way through the changes and it's already an 8 minute read 🥲.
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"Showing 107 changed files with 1,970 additions and 350 deletions." 🥵
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Please let it be another free U2 album! 🤞😩.
Tomorrow we’re celebrating 10 years of changing the way we experience music.
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“We’ll recycle your Mac for free!”.
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Change my mind 🤷🏽♂️
Forgot to mention. Messages (and I'm trying not to sound snarky) joins the long list of Apple's first party apps making use of UIKit's private _UINavigationBarPalette class! ☺️
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Forgot to mention. Messages (and I'm trying not to sound snarky) joins the long list of Apple's first party apps making use of UIKit's private _UINavigationBarPalette class! ☺️
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_UINavigationBarTitleView still borked in beta 2…. Obviously I only want this fixed for a better Messages experience 😌. As an aside, if you want your title view to participate in the two-part transition, as per MobileSMS, call setDisplayLayer: and pass in a value of 1.
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People test their React Native apps??
What are people using for testing React Native apps these days?.
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"Foundation Models Tri. ". If only there was a way for your navigation bar's large title to span across more than one line. Two lines maybe?. It could even be a property of UINavigationItem! I'd call it, something like, _largeTitleTwoLineMode! 😁
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The best way I've found to achieve something like this: UITabBarControllerDelegate's tabBarController(_:shouldSelect:) method. Good old UIKit!. In SwiftUI you can observe a TabView's selection and reset it using onChange(of:perform:), although I did experience some flickering.
Anyone know if it's possible with API to add this auxiliary view to the trailing edge of the tab bar?. Under the hood it seems to use a private _UITabBarAuxiliaryView.
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For me: performance, performance, performance. I’ve yet to put the changes to Lists to the test but if the improvements are half as good as they stated, I’d like to see these kinds of optimisations across the board. Also, better feature parity with equivalent UIKit components.
Now that you've seen everything from SwiftUI 26, what is still missing? What are the key pain points you hit? #WWDC25.
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This is your reminder to avoid UICollectionViewCell subclasses where possible and instead use UIContentConfigurations…. Don’t be like me 😅 Small refactor, but now works across 18 and 26. Starting to iOS 26-ify Duet, even used a bit of SwiftUI here!
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Seems to be a _slight_ regression in -[UINavigationItem _preferredNavigationBarVisibility] in iOS 26 beta 1. The navigation bar no longer nicely animates during the push/pop transition. Seems to affect SwiftUI's .toolbarVisibility(.hidden, for: .navigationBar) modifier too.
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Anyone know if it's possible with API to add this auxiliary view to the trailing edge of the tab bar?. Under the hood it seems to use a private _UITabBarAuxiliaryView.
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RT @hiddevdploeg: Indie house 2025 has been a blast again! See you all at #WWDC26 ❤️. Mahlzeit!. @klemensstrasser @jordibruin @twannl @SebJ….
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