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I installed a vpn on my AppleTV and couldn’t tell if it was actually working/secure. So I created my first ever swift app, for TVOS (AppleTV).

The app checks if your vpn is active, and tells you your public ip and geo location on a map (also deployed a small service on fly.io to ping/detect this).

Using copilot/chatgtp it was a doddle.

Of course Apple refused to put it in the App Store because it doesn’t have enough features. Even though adding unnecessary bloat to the app would be against their own design philosophy.



How did you use copilot given that tvOS uses Xcode?



Probably opened a browser tab, started asking questions about how to code the thing. :)


Write the code in another text editor and only use xcode to compile?




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