Bridge your Swift Playgrounds Apps to everyone's favorite scripting system for Apple platforms (Or anything, really.)
Why? You can't use App Intents within Swift Playgrounds.
How? Hosting a server which awaits an HTTP POST request and then handles this data to pass to your app.
When? Probably never.
Who? Me.
Where? Your iPad.
What? Harmonize is a Swift Package that handles UI, security, and other boring stuff you wouldn't want to bother with when integrating an App Intents-like solution in your app.
Limitations:
- The server will eventually be killed in the background by iOS, no getting around that (However I do notice it honestly takes quite a while before this happens, in my testing.)
- Only one app can use Playcuts at a time (Unless apps all specify a specific port number they want to use, which Harmonize will support in the future if I care enough to update it)
- Harmonize kinda breaks if you use it on multiple iPads, due to pairing codes being reliant on the app's persistent storage. You can get around this by using multiple Playcuts Shortcuts for your many iPads.
Why Harmonize?
- It's kinda secure (Requiring a pairing code to transfer data into or out of your application, plus being hosted only on the device locally, not exposing the server to other devices on the network.)
- It's lightweight and pretty simple to integrate into things
- It works for your semi-sideloading dreams, as Swift Playgrounds doesn't support extensions of ANY form, and Playcuts can get you knockoff App Intents (As data can be passed into and out of your app dynamically) and even widgets (If you use something like Scriptable to handle web requests and obviously all UI).
Usage:
Examples coming soon
Depends on Swifter for actually running a web server, I'm not smart enough to do that myself.