SelfieRingLight/AI_Implementation.md
Matt Bruce 74e65829de Initial commit: SelfieRingLight app
Features:
- Camera preview with ring light effect
- Adjustable ring size with slider
- Light color presets (white, warm cream, ice blue, soft pink, warm amber, cool lavender)
- Light intensity control (opacity)
- Front flash (hides preview during capture)
- True mirror mode
- Skin smoothing toggle
- Grid overlay (rule of thirds)
- Self-timer options
- Photo and video capture modes
- iCloud sync for settings across devices

Architecture:
- SwiftUI with @Observable view models
- Protocol-oriented design (RingLightConfigurable, CaptureControlling)
- Bedrock design system integration
- CloudSyncManager for iCloud settings sync
- RevenueCat for premium features
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# AI_Implementation.md
## How This App Was Architected & Built
This project was developed following strict senior-level iOS engineering standards, with guidance from an AI assistant (Grok) acting as a Senior iOS Engineer specializing in SwiftUI and modern Apple frameworks.
### Guiding Principles (from AGENTS.md)
- **Protocol-Oriented Programming (POP) first**: All shared capabilities defined via protocols before concrete types
- **MVVM-lite**: Views are "dumb" — all logic lives in `@Observable` view models
- **No third-party dependencies**: Pure Apple frameworks only (SwiftUI, AVFoundation, StoreKit 2, CoreImage)
- **No magic numbers**: All dimensions, opacities, durations from centralized `Design` constants
- **Full accessibility**: Dynamic Type, VoiceOver labels/hints/traits/announcements
- **Modern Swift & SwiftUI**: Swift 6 concurrency, `@MainActor`, `foregroundStyle`, `clipShape(.rect)`, `NavigationStack`
- **Testable & reusable design**: Protocols enable mocking and future SPM package extraction
### Architecture Overview
Shared/
├── DesignConstants.swift → Semantic design tokens (spacing, radii, sizes, etc.)
├── Color+Extensions.swift → Ring light color presets
├── Protocols/
│ ├── RingLightConfigurable.swift → Border, color, brightness, mirror, smoothing
│ ├── CaptureControlling.swift → Timer, grid, zoom, capture mode
│ └── PremiumManaging.swift → Subscription state & purchase handling
└── Premium/
└── PremiumManager.swift → Native StoreKit 2 implementation
Features/
├── Camera/ → Main UI, preview, capture logic
├── Settings/ → Configuration screens
└── Paywall/ → Pro subscription flow
### Key Implementation Decisions
1. **Ring Light Effect**
- Achieved by coloring the safe area background and leaving a centered rectangular window for camera preview
- Border width controlled via user setting
- Gradient support added for directional "portrait lighting"
2. **Camera System**
- `AVCaptureSession` with front camera default
- `UIViewRepresentable` wrapper for preview with pinch-to-zoom
- Video data output delegate for future real-time filters (skin smoothing placeholder)
3. **Capture Enhancements**
- Timer with async countdown and accessibility announcements
- Volume button observation via KVO on `AVAudioSession.outputVolume`
- Flash burst: temporarily sets brightness to 1.0 on capture
4. **Freemium Model**
- Built with pure StoreKit 2 (no RevenueCat)
- `PremiumManaging` protocol enables easy testing/mocking
- Clean paywall with benefit list and native purchase flow
5. **Reusability Focus**
- All shared logic extracted to protocols
- Ready for future extraction into SPM packages:
- `SelfieCameraKit`
- `SelfieRingLightKit`
- `SelfiePremiumKit`
### Development Process
- Iterative feature additions guided by competitive analysis of top App Store selfie apps
- Each new capability (timer, boomerang, gradient, subscriptions) added with protocol-first design
- Strict adherence to no magic numbers, full accessibility, and clean separation
- Final structure optimized for maintainability and future library extraction
This app demonstrates production-quality SwiftUI architecture while delivering a delightful, competitive user experience.