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Delivering Rich App Experiences with Haptics

At a glance

Item Summary
Purpose Enhance your app’s experience by incorporating haptic and sound feedback into key interactive moments.
App architecture A Swift sample bundle with entry-bearing project variants HapticRicochet-Final, HapticRicochet-Start, each leading to CoreHaptics APIs.
Main patterns View-controller organization, Delegate or data-source callbacks
Project style 10 scanned source file(s) across Swift, organized around ranked entry, type, and file boundaries.

Project structure

Source bundle/
├── HapticRicochet-Final/
│   ├── HapticRicochet/
│   │   ├── AppDelegate.swift
│   │   ├── ViewController.swift
│   │   ├── ViewController+Animations.swift
│   │   ├── ViewController+AudioHapticFeedback.swift
│   │   └── ViewController+Motion.swift
│   └── HapticRicochet.xcodeproj/
│       └── .xcodesamplecode.plist
├── HapticRicochet-Start/
│   └── HapticRicochet/
│       ├── AppDelegate.swift
│       ├── ViewController.swift
│       ├── ViewController+Animations.swift
│       ├── ViewController+AudioHapticFeedback.swift
│       └── ViewController+Motion.swift
└── Configuration/
    └── SampleCode.xcconfig

Structure observations

  • Architecturally prominent files are ranked from entry points and role-named declarations; resource-only paths are omitted.
  • Primary languages: Swift.
  • The verified tree contains 11 project/configuration file(s) and 6 source declaration(s).

Overall architecture

Reference code

HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/AppDelegate.swift:12 — architecture anchor

@UIApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {
    // ...
}

Interpretation

The branches represent separate entry-bearing project variants in the downloaded bundle, not runtime calls between those variants. Each branch is intentionally collapsed at the documented framework boundary; the detailed target-local flow remains in the cited files. Ownership is claimed only where the next section cites a stored property or assignment.

Ownership and state

Ownership evidence

HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/AppDelegate.swift:15 — stored dependency or nearest verified ownership anchor

@UIApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {
    // ...
    var window: UIWindow?
    // ...
}
Owner Object or state Relationship Mutation authority
AppDelegate UIWindow (window) stores or receives App/module collaborators
ViewController UIView (sphereView) stores or receives App/module collaborators
ViewController Cancellable (spherePositionPublisher) stores or receives App/module collaborators
ViewController CGFloat (kSphereRadiusSmall) owns value state Initialized by the owner; the binding is immutable

Composition arrows indicate a source-visible construction expression or locally owned value state; aggregation means the owner stores or receives a dependency without proving exclusive lifetime ownership.

Class and protocol design

HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/AppDelegate.swift:13 — representative type boundary

class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {
    // ...
}
Type Responsibility Depends on or conforms to
AppDelegate Receives callback-driven events UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate
AppDelegate Receives callback-driven events UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate
ViewController View lifecycle, callbacks, and feature coordination UIViewController, UICollisionBehaviorDelegate
ViewController View lifecycle, callbacks, and feature coordination UIViewController, UICollisionBehaviorDelegate
SphereState Represents mutable feature state Concrete collaborators/imported frameworks
SphereState Represents mutable feature state Concrete collaborators/imported frameworks

No local protocol conformance is claimed as protocol-oriented design; external framework conformances are listed only as dependencies.

Access control

Symbol Access Verified effect Likely rationale
wallPadding (HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/ViewController+Animations.swift:12) private Use is restricted to the lexical declaration and same-file extensions allowed by Swift. Inference: keep state mutation or dependency lifetime inside the owning implementation.
addAnimationBehaviors (HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/ViewController+Animations.swift:205) private Use is restricted to the lexical declaration and same-file extensions allowed by Swift. Inference: hide an implementation step that is not part of the collaboration surface.
removeAnimationBehaviors (HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/ViewController+Animations.swift:212) private Use is restricted to the lexical declaration and same-file extensions allowed by Swift. Inference: hide an implementation step that is not part of the collaboration surface.
boundedSphereCenter (HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/ViewController+Animations.swift:219) private Use is restricted to the lexical declaration and same-file extensions allowed by Swift. Inference: hide an implementation step that is not part of the collaboration surface.

Reference code

HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/ViewController+Animations.swift:12 — representative boundary

    private var wallPadding: CGFloat { return 1 }

Swift declarations without a modifier are internal; explicit private, fileprivate, private(set), public, or open entries above are interpreted by language semantics. Objective-C/C samples instead rely on header and implementation boundaries, which are not equivalent to Swift lexical privacy.

Logic ownership and placement

Logic Owning type or file Placement rationale
View lifecycle, callbacks, and feature coordination ViewController The source’s Controller suffix makes this role explicit.
Receives callback-driven events AppDelegate The source’s Delegate suffix makes this role explicit.

Design patterns

Pattern Source evidence Purpose or tradeoff
View-controller organization HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/ViewController.swift:15 A controller is the verified coordination boundary; this is MVC-style only where a separate model is present.
Delegate or data-source callbacks HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/AppDelegate.swift:13 Callback protocols invert event delivery back into the sample’s owner.

Naming conventions

  • Types: Controller: ViewController; Delegate: AppDelegate.
  • Protocols: no local protocol declaration in the scanned source.
  • Methods: application, viewDidLoad, initializeBackgroundImage, initializeSphere, handleSpherePositionChanged, collisionBehavior, sphereTapped, backgroundTapped.
  • Files: HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/AppDelegate.swift, HapticRicochet-Start/HapticRicochet/AppDelegate.swift, HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/ViewController.swift, HapticRicochet-Start/HapticRicochet/ViewController.swift.

Architecture takeaways

  • AppDelegate is the main source-visible entry or composition anchor for this sample.
  • Framework work reaches UIKit, CoreHaptics, CoreMotion, AVFoundation through a deliberately small high-level chain; the detailed API graph remains inside the cited implementation files.
  • Stored-property evidence identifies lifecycle collaboration; it does not by itself prove exclusive object ownership.
  • Access-control conclusions separate verified language visibility from the likely design rationale.
  • The source does not justify labeling the design protocol-oriented.

Source map

Source file Relevant symbols
HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/AppDelegate.swift AppDelegate
HapticRicochet-Start/HapticRicochet/AppDelegate.swift AppDelegate
HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/ViewController.swift ViewController, SphereState
HapticRicochet-Start/HapticRicochet/ViewController.swift ViewController, SphereState
HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/ViewController+Animations.swift Feature implementation
HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/ViewController+AudioHapticFeedback.swift Feature implementation
HapticRicochet-Final/HapticRicochet/ViewController+Motion.swift Feature implementation
HapticRicochet-Start/HapticRicochet/ViewController+Animations.swift Feature implementation
HapticRicochet-Start/HapticRicochet/ViewController+AudioHapticFeedback.swift Feature implementation
HapticRicochet-Start/HapticRicochet/ViewController+Motion.swift Feature implementation