Supported AppKit types (e.g. NSCursor, NSImage) are missing from iOS

[molesmoke]

Apple platform

iOS

Framework version

net9.0-*

Affected platform version

.NET SDK 9.0.305

Description

NSCursor is supported from iOS 13 for assistive touch:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nscursor

Noticed that NSImage is also missing:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsimage

Steps to Reproduce

NSCursor.ArrowCursor.Set();

Did you find any workaround?

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[rolfbjarne]

This is interesting, NSCursor is supported in iOS 13 when using Swift:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nscursor

but not when using Objective-C:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nscursor?language=objc

And the same goes for NSImage.

Unfortunately, as of today, the only way to use a Swift library is via a proxy library. The general idea is described here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/platform/binding-swift/, basically you would need to expose these APIs you need via a Swift glue layer that exposes the method via the swift bridge header and then creating a C# binding project for this.

[molesmoke]

Oh, that is interesting. I had assumed it was a missing attribute or something since it was present on macOS. I think I'll just skip that for now and make the downstream feature Catalyst only. Thanks for looking into it!