Support for macOS AI Writing Tools in Avalonia TextBoxes

[danipen]

Apple introduced AI-powered writing tools in macOS, such as Rewrite, Proofread, and Summarize (Apple Support link). These tools work in many native and web-based text inputs.

Would Avalonia TextBox controls be able to support these features automatically on macOS, or would additional work be required to enable them? If changes are needed, what would be the best approach to integrate support?

Thanks!

[maxkatz6]

Avalonia handles macOS IME, and if these tools are integrated via the same old APIs, everything should work already.
Would require testing to confirm

[BAndysc]

#17384

No, writing tools are not supported by Avalonia, to support writing tools in custom text views, according to Apple docs one need to implement https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsservicesmenurequestor https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10168/ 9:03

[Gillibald]

Looks like we need to implement this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitextinteraction?language=objc

[BAndysc]

iOS 13.0+ iPadOS 13.0+ Mac Catalyst 13.1+ visionOS 1.0+

UITextInteraction seems to be required to support writing tools on the mobile platforms, on the desktop macOS, according to the video it is the combination of NSServicesMenuRequestor + probably some kind of native context menu support (that's how you open writing tools)

[kekekeks]

The feature to be locked behind macOS-specific context-menus