Kinda. While there is no API to make a phone call, you can use the webbrowser module to open a tel:PHONE_NUMBER url. This will show a dialog, asking for confirmation to initiate the call. This should work for you since, when the call ends, you automatically return to Pythonista.

For example, this code makes a call to Amazon Germany:

import webbrowser
webbrowser.open('tel:+49-800-2629663')

Yes it is indeed possible to load a font from a .otf file at runtime (in fact, I implemented such a feature months ago using the ctypes module), but that's never as good as a proper first-party implementation.

@scj643 it says that the type error is caused by the 3rd argument (which makes sense since 1 is self and 2 is cmd).
And it can't say which type it wants because it doesn't know what to expect, it just knows that what it got was wrong

@scj643 because it doesn't know. The objc runtime can only get the expected type encoding of an argument or a method's return value. The type encoding specifies which primitive type an argument should be (float/int/char/etc) or whether it is an object. But since ObjC classes are basically just glorified structs, the runtime can't differentiate between different classes. (That's why objc has the id type to represent "any objc-object")

NSHipster on Type Encodings

It'd be nice if Pythonista offered Apple's SF-Mono font in addition to the existing fonts.

Another font that'd be very well suited for Pythonista is FiraCode, which is a monospaced font with programming ligatures.
Since UITextView already supports ligatures, FiraCode would work fine in Pythonista.

Example of FiraCode:

cc @omz

@scj643 said:

Currently objc_utils throws very cryptic errors when a type issue happens with an objc function

What exactly do you mean? I never found the objc_util errors to be cryptic at all.

Pythonista already includes a "draw image and save to camera roll" script in the examples folder. You might be able to learn from that how to save the contents of your view to an image.

You can find the example script at Documents -> Examples -> User Interface

The built in ui.TableView supports only one action per row, but you can use the objc_util module to create a custom UITableView and implement the -[UITableViewDelegate tableView:editActionsForRowAtIndexPath: method which returns an array of table view row actions.

An other option for multiple actions per row would be to simply add an info accessory button to each row and show an alert w/ more options when the accessory button is pressed

Can you post the code that crashed?

I noticed that the "Import file" feature of the app extension seems to be a bit inconsistent:

When I launch the extension from the share sheet in the Photos app, the import option is hidden, while it is available when I launch the extension from Pythonistas own share sheet or an app like Transmit.

The problem seems to be that the photos app only specifies the public.png key, while pythonista itself (and presumably Transmit as well) specify the public.file-url key.

I think Pythonista should offer the "Import" option in both cases.

The "Import File" option:

The items passed to the extension: