enable ui automation
Generated on 8/6/2024
1 search
To enable UI automation, you can leverage various tools and APIs provided by Apple. Here are some relevant sessions from WWDC that discuss features and tools that can help with UI automation:
-
Get started with Writing Tools:
- This session discusses how to integrate writing tools into custom text views. By adopting
UITextInteractionorUITextSelectionDisplayInteraction, you can get running tools in the color bar or context menu for free, which can be useful for automating text interactions.
- This session discusses how to integrate writing tools into custom text views. By adopting
-
- This session covers new text improvements in UIKit, including advanced text editing experiences and APIs for tracking and modifying user interface experiences. These can be useful for automating text-related UI tasks.
-
Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI:
- This session explains how accessibility elements represent views and provide attributes to describe the contents of a view and actions. Understanding these can help in automating UI interactions, especially for accessibility testing.
-
- This session introduces new ways to open context menus and other refinements in AppKit, which can be useful for automating context menu interactions.
For more detailed information, you can refer to the specific chapters in the sessions mentioned above.
What’s new in UIKit
Explore everything new in UIKit, including tab and document launch experiences, transitions, and text and input changes. We’ll also discuss better-than-ever interoperability between UIKit and SwiftUI animations and gestures, as well as general improvements throughout UIKit.
What’s new in AppKit
Discover the latest advances in Mac app development. Get an overview of the new features in macOS Sequoia, and how to adopt them in your app. Explore new ways to integrate your existing code with SwiftUI. Learn about the improvements made to numerous AppKit controls, like toolbars, menus, text input, and more.
Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI
SwiftUI makes it easy to build amazing experiences that are accessible to everyone. We’ll discover how assistive technologies understand and navigate your app through the rich accessibility elements provided by SwiftUI. We’ll also discuss how you can further customize these experiences by providing more information about your app’s content and interactions by using accessibility modifiers.
Get started with Writing Tools
Learn how Writing Tools help users proofread, rewrite, and transform text in your app. Get the details on how Writing Tools interact with your app so users can refine what they have written in any text view. Understand how text is retrieved and processed, and how to support Writing Tools in custom text views.