telegram-tui/crates/tele-ios-ffi/README.md

tele-ios-ffi

UniFFI bridge for the future native iOS app.

Current scope:

• Exposes a fake-backed SessionHandle for Swift integration tests and app shell work.
• Mirrors the tele-core::session DTO/event model with UniFFI-compatible records and enums.
• Keeps real TDLib session creation out of this crate until iOS simulator/device linking is validated.

Generate Swift bindings and headers:

scripts/generate-ios-ffi-bindings.sh

The script builds target/release/libtele_ios_ffi.a and writes Swift sources, headers, a Swift typecheck-friendly tele_ios_ffiFFI module map, and an XCFramework-compatible module map under build/ios-ffi/.

Build the fake-only iOS simulator XCFramework without linking TDLib:

DEVELOPER_DIR=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer scripts/build-ios-fake-ffi-xcframework.sh

Current linking status:

• Xcode is installed at /Applications/Xcode.app, and DEVELOPER_DIR=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer xcodebuild -version reports Xcode 26.5.
• The iOS 26.5 simulator runtime is installed and scripts/check-ios-prereqs.sh passes with available iPhone/iPad simulators.
• The current app shell uses the fake Swift bridge. Real TDLib iOS simulator/device linking is still pending until TDLib is built for iphonesimulator and iphoneos and wired into the UniFFI target.
• Run scripts/check-ios-tdlib-linking.sh to reproduce the current TDLib iOS blocker documented in docs/ios/tdlib-linking.md.