Auth0.webAuth() doesn't work during migration from iOS to VisionOS platform

[DanilRostov]

Auth0.webAuth() doesn't work during migration from iOS to VisionOS platform

[thefaj]

Not sure why Auth0 didn't just update this library as compatible for visionOS way back in June 2023 (maybe there's a staffing issue inside the company?).

Anyway, the library works just fine on visionOS once you update the Swift library to 5.9 and add in visionOS flags in this and the SimpleKeychain repositories. I have a fork that fixes things for the Swift Package Manager. I ignored the Cocoapods or Carthage stuff and got rid of the XCTest targets that aren't necessary.
https://github.com/senstream/Auth0.swift

Note: Just use this as a reference to get things up and running in your project.

[Widcket]

Hi @DanilRostov, thanks for raising this.

The SDK does not yet support VisionOS. Unfortunately, I don't have any news to share ATM regarding future plans around this.

I discovered the source code a little bit and found the next condition in "Auth0" file that are not passing: #if WEB_AUTH_PLATFORM. That should be the root cause why error occues on compilation stage.

WEB_AUTH_PLATFORM is defined:

• https://github.com/auth0/Auth0.swift/blob/master/Package.swift#L6 for SPM
• https://github.com/auth0/Auth0.swift/blob/master/Auth0.podspec#L49-L55 for Cocoapods

[thefaj]

Very interested in visionOS support as well for our app.
Thank you for prioritizing this (lack of Auth0 support is a blocking issue for us).

[cgcardona]

We're also very interested in VisionOS support. We love Auth0 and are using it for our MacOS and iOS apps! Would love to also use it for VisionOS.

Thanks for all the great work!

[cgcardona]

@thefaj this is great! I'll check out your fork. Thanks!

FWIW I contacted Auth0 on X and asked them to share this thread w/ their engineering team and they said that they would.

[thefaj]

@cgcardona Awesome! And good luck with your visionOS work! 🥽

It looks like Apple WWDR reached out to Auth0 in December to get visionOS support added, but Auth0 marked the request as invalid: #818

[Widcket]

Hi @thefaj,

Not sure why Auth0 didn't just update this library as compatible for visionOS way back in June 2023 (maybe there's a staffing issue inside the company?).

The visionOS SDK only became stable last month with the release of Xcode 15.2. We can't add support for the non-stable SDK of a new Apple platform, as things are bound to change. For example, at first #if os(iOS) evaluated to true on visionOS, then it changed to #if os(xrOS), and now it's #if os(visionOS).

once you update the Swift library to 5.9 and add in visionOS flags

That requires Xcode 15+; but as of today it's still possible to upload to the App Store apps built with Xcode 14. And that will be the case until the last days of April. So we can't drop support for Xcode 14 just yet, as per our support policy.

I ignored the Cocoapods or Carthage stuff and got rid of the XCTest targets that aren't necessary.

We need to ensure to support Carthage and Cocoapods as well, and we can't simply remove the entire test target from Package.swift.

It looks like Apple WWDR reached out to Auth0 in December to get visionOS support added, but Auth0 marked the request as invalid

That issue was created by an anonymous account with no activity and, as such, was not taken seriously.

Thanks for your patience on this.

[thefaj]

@Widcket Thanks for making this a priority.