iPhone and iPad app: the same features, served from the Frame

An iPhone can't run Python or ssh, but the Frame can. The app (ios/, SwiftUI)
connects with its own SSH key (Citadel), copies the server and helpers to
~/.cache/frame-control/<version> on the Frame once per version, starts
ui/server.py there with FRAME_LOCAL=1 on the Frame's 127.0.0.1, and shows the
page through an SSH tunnel. The server exits when the phone disconnects.

Server: FRAME_LOCAL=1 puts ui/local-bin on PATH, whose ssh stand-in runs each
`ssh frame COMMAND` locally (and serves as rsync's transport), so desktop and
phone share one code path. Android display goes through podman exec there, as
the Frame has no adb. FRAME_UI_KEY replaces the fixed X-Frame-UI value with a
per-session key. Power actions take the Developer Mode password via sudo -S.
--port 0 now prints the port it took.

Page: a bottom tab bar and safe areas on phones, Play buttons visible on touch
screens, saving through the share sheet, SSH/SFTP/Steam Link/remote desktop
opening in their iOS apps, and a password dialog for power.

App: pairing with the Developer Mode password once (never stored) or with a
key the user adds; host key pinned on first use; plain-language connection
errors with quiet retries; frame-control://install links; alerts and confirms.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ jobs:
run: sudo apt-get update -qq && sudo apt-get install -y -qq zsh
- name: Script syntax
run: |
sh -n ui/local-bin/ssh
for f in scripts/*.sh frame/*/*.sh; do
case "$(head -n 1 "$f")" in
*zsh*) zsh -n "$f" ;;
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
done
- name: Python compiles
run: |
python -m py_compile ui/*.py apk-catalog/*.py frame/android/*.py
python -m py_compile ui/*.py apk-catalog/*.py frame/android/*.py ios/scripts/*.py
# Valve's devkit-utils (vendored; run by the Frame's python3). Most have no .py suffix.
python -m py_compile $(find frame/devkit-utils -type f ! -name '*.*' ! -name LICENSE) frame/devkit-utils/devkit_utils/*.py
- name: Server tests
@@ -57,3 +58,16 @@ jobs:
python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
- name: Server tests
run: python -m unittest discover -s tests -v
# The iPhone app: builds for the Simulator and runs its unit tests.
ios:
runs-on: macos-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Generate the project
run: brew install xcodegen && cd ios && xcodegen generate
- name: Build and test
run: |
cd ios
udid=$(xcrun simctl list devices available -j | python3 -c 'import json,sys; d=json.load(sys.stdin)["devices"]; print(next(x["udid"] for r in d for x in d[r] if x["name"].startswith("iPhone")))')
xcodebuild -project FrameControl.xcodeproj -scheme FrameControl -destination "platform=iOS Simulator,id=$udid" CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO test