Project Ganymede

• The Paradoxical Moon Philosophy
• Send Separately
• Callisto is the code name for MessagesExtension
• Europa is the code name for Encryption Key Exchange Server

240612

• Complete Reconsideration of Project Ganymede

240414

• Added text placeholders. It was surprisingly hard to do it in UITextView and I'm surprised there's no easy way of doing this.
• Tried to modify ProgressBar but failed
• Completed Read View.

240319

Wrote a simple read view. Added timer for sending action. The send screen is done. All we need to do is the read screen.

Also, AI-gile could be another programming pattern. Gen Z does not know file directories. The gist is that we don't need to "organize" files as semantic search improves because whatever we search will pop up automatically. Just have a giant file-pile and semantic search when you need something. These searches have now become so smart that they search for synonyms and deeply nested contexts and text inside images.

240315

• Added LogTail to Europa
• Implemented Encryption and Attaching

240307

Rewriting Callisto with UIKit. Primarily because of the extensive jumble mess with SwiftUI.

240210

Restored server with FlightControl

240104

Server Crashed. migrating to Fly.io... Because I wanted a Vercel-like experience for backends. However migrating is a pain... because originally I wrote everything as CF workers functions. Such a stress, app is getting delayed and delayed

231224

231215

231122

• There was a property in MSMessage of shouldExpire. The problem is that the recipient can override to keep the message, which we don't want.
• Implemented Message Reading Functionality
• I implemented proper loading view features, with fade-in and fade-out.

• Refactored a lot of files

Callisto
├── Assets.xcassets
│   ├── Contents.json
│   └── iMessage App Icon.stickersiconset
│       └── Contents.json
├── Base.lproj
│   └── MainInterface.storyboard
├── Callisto.entitlements
├── CallistoLoadingView.swift
├── CallistoMessageReadingView.swift
├── CallistoMessageWritingView.swift
├── CallistoService.swift
├── CallistoView.swift
├── Info.plist
└── MessagesViewController.swift

231118

• Linked the client side to
  • request server
  • pack it as MSMessage
  • send the message
  • dismiss the keyboard & request a compact presentation style
• Pink Bubble?

231113

• Implemented Vitest on Prisma and Cloudflare Workers
  • It would be boring to name tests like "A texts B, then C tries to read it" or so, right?

• Implemented CI on GitHub Actions, so that
  • If the Vitest passes, deploy it to Cloudflare Workers

When Test Fails

• Refuses to Deploy

When Test Passes

• Deploys

231111

Used Prisma, Prisma Accelerate, PlanetScale, and Cloudflare Workers to create a simple server for the Ganymede Table Structure. Prisma layer makes three requests to the DB per 1 request to the server, albeit it probably would hit the Prisma Accelerate Layer, we can later optimize it with this document.

Composing Messages with 3 People Group Chat (Writer, Reader 1, Reader 2)

When the Writer Tries to Read (Invalid)

When the Reader Tries to Read (Valid)

When the Reader Re-requests to Read (Invalid)

When Another Reader Requests to Read (Valid)

When an Unauthorized User Requests to Read (Invalid)

Also

• PhotoPicker
• Finished reading the Apple Sign-In UUID from the iMessage App side: had to use App Groups and UserDefaults

231110

231108

• It is possible to limit iMessage forwarding for iMessage Extensions
• It is possible to mark the iMessage with LocalParticipantIdentifier
• LocalParticipantIdentifier is different on all devices
• The most straightforward way would be marking:
  • Set LocalParticipantIdentifier to true on reading (on the server)
  • Reject if LocalParticipantIdentifier is already true.
• Problem: If the user deletes and reinstalls the app, LocalParticipantIdentifier changes. So the user can read unlimited times if the uninstall & reinstall
• Mitigation: Assign UUID for each message. Each message will have LocalParticipantIdentifier + RemoteParticipantIdentifiers count as the maxRead. This will at least 'limit' the max read count.
• Problem: on a Group Chat setting, a user can read unlimited times instead of another participant.
• Solution: Sign in with Apple?!

231020

I can attach many images

231019

• Embed the Photos Picker in your app - WWDC23 - Videos - Apple Developer

231016

231013

In iOS 17, Shortcuts can send messages without confirmation. Can we use this for Send Separately or Ganymede?

231012

• Read notifications
• Screenshot notifications
• Broadcast
• App Clip + Apple Login?
• Therefore, we name it Project Ganymede. You can NEVER win Apple. It is the most massive system, just like Jupiter. Therefore, we choose to become a moon. The moon of Jupiter. And a moon can be bigger than planets. Ganymede is bigger than Mercury.

231009

I finished some working prototypes. Some concerns: It seems like the transcript MSMessage is an immutable object. We might consider server approaches, such as KV storage.

I don't want to store any encrypted or decrypted messages on the server. So we can consider something as:

• When sending a message
  • encrypt message
  • generate UUID
  • write to KV storage as UUID → DecryptKey
  • send UUID and encrypted message to iMessage
• When reading the message
  • extract UUID and encrypted message
  • read KV with UUID and delete the DecryptKey if any necessary condition is met
  • once it expires, the user cannot read the message again

Considerations

• How do you store different strategies (After 5 seconds? 10 seconds? 15 seconds?)
• Group chats
• Photo / Video Payload
• Screenshot detections and notifications

Prehistoric

• Project. Disappearing message for iMessage.
• every message self-destructs in 10 seconds