iOS usb3 device driver

[scott455]

what programming language(s) like swift , toolkits, etc. are used to develop device driver for ios for a smart efficient USB3 device?. I am beginner.

 

[casperes1996]

what programming language(s) like swift , toolkits, etc. are used to develop device driver for ios for a smart efficient USB3 device?. I am beginner.

For iOS, this is not something currently supported at all. For iPadOS on M1 iPads, you can use DriverKit as of iPadOS 16

 

[casperes1996]

Note that writing device drivers is not a beginner's task, at all

 

[scott455]

what language is used, swift, c++, c?. I may get by with something I have done. Could usb support applications written in obj-c, cocoa could run on iPads with iPadOS on M1? It may not be feasible since iPads are designed to be iPads not Macs.

 

[casperes1996]

what language is used, swift, c++, c?. I may get by with something I have done. Could usb support applications written in obj-c, cocoa could run on iPads with iPadOS on M1? It may not be feasible since iPads are designed to be iPads not Macs.

DriverKit's template is with C++. There may be language bindings for Obj-C as well, I'm not sure about that.

Creating drivers for iPadOS | Apple Developer Documentation

Bring your drivers to iPadOS by using the platform’s DriverKit support.

developer.apple.com

There's Apple's docs for using it with iPadOS.

You can add a DriverKit dext to iPadOS applications regardless of what language you used for the app target.

I agains stress however that driver development requires a rich understanding of the device you're trying to operate with, the kernel's operation and hardware I/O model and not all driver types are possible with DriverKit on iPadOS presently