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That resubmit approach ways used by at least one camera app years ago who masked their private API usage to secretly include a volume button “take photo” featur
by floatingatoll 7y ago
That resubmit approach ways used by at least one camera app years ago who masked their private API usage to secretly include a volume button “take photo” feature. They were told to knock it off (and Apple also added that option to the API at a later date).
Between that and the folks who hid MAME in an app or whatever, I think Apple is not simply constructing straw men when they warn that attempts to circumvent the spirit of their request - and the letter of it - will result in a lifetime ban.
- kalleboo 7y agoCamera+ didn't use a hidden API - they just used a standard system volume control but placed it offscreen and monitored if the volume changed (and then lower it imperceptibly if you hit 100%). And Apple has still not added an API to do this officially, last I checked all third party camera apps use a similar hack. What changed was just the interpretation of the app store rules - the rules said something like "you're not allowed to use hardware buttons in a non-standard way". Once they added the volume shutter feature to the system camera, now it's not a non-standard way and it's not against the rules.