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My Swift/iOS students are building apps with GooglePlaces. It seems GooglePlaces does not run in the simulator on M1 Macs, so anyone with an M1 has been building & running on iOS devices. I have one student who has an M1 Mac but is an Android user & doesn't have an iOS device.

• Is there a way to run GooglePlaces in the simulator on M1 Macs? If so, can you please point folks to newbie-friendly instructions (this is a zero-to-full stack university course, so many students are still fairly new to Xcode & iOS). If there are not clear instructions, I will adapt & create on my own if any instructions are available.
• If there is no way to run GooglePlaces on a simulator on M1 Macs, do we know when this will be available from Google?
• Any word on when GooglePlaces will use SwiftPackageManager? We'd like to get away from using Cocoapods, but the online documentation doesn't mention any SMP version of GooglePlaces is available. Thank you - sorry if I missed something on the forums, but my group of iOS devs in training are grateful for any help you can point us to. John

We are planning to make a recommendations engine for the features in the app and we were thinking about using GCP Recommendations AI. Then, we ran into some unclear areas due to lack of examples.

1. GCP Recommendations AI is not only for shopping sites, right? I saw a movie rating example by Google. (https://cloud.google.com/retail/recommendations-ai/docs/movie-rec-tutorial#objectives)

2. Can we use Google Tag Manager for iOS (with Firebase Analytics) to send real-time event data to GCP Recommendations AI? Could you please provide some docs/examples/articles that explains how (We are using Swift to code the app)? It is possible for web sites, according to docs. (https://cloud.google.com/retail/recommendations-ai/docs/record-events#gtm)

3. When we send POST requests from iOS (swift) to GCP, is there a way to get access-token for the header field "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token)" using Firebase iOS SDK? Could you please point us to some resources that we can follow. If it's not possible to do easily, what is the easiest secure method that you recommend? Any resources? (example use case - https://cloud.google.com/retail/recommendations-ai/docs/record-events#write)

Could you guys please help us with these?

I'm using fallocate_reserve = 5368709120 as an option in account, container and object confs, to make sure 5G reserve space remains on the disks and the the disks does not get filled up.

However, while uploading larger objects, it does not limit or move over to other free disk, but keeps filling same disk after reserve to 100%, even though above reserve option of 5G is used. Can you help or guide please?

when i type

swift stat

i get this error :

HTTPConnectionPool(host='controller', port=8080): Max retries exceeded
with url: /v1/AUTH_d17698cf7bbf4dcc8fc59ed6f7b48052 (Caused by 
NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 
0x7f1c597f9910>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] 
Connection refused'))

I've created a container named jobs some months ago, and today i see another container named jobs_segments holding several Gigabytes of data.

I've read that it is created to hold the individual parts when doing a segmented SWIFT upload.

Questions are :

• can or should this container or files inside it be deleted once the segmented upload has finished?
• is there any option to avoid this second container _segments and work only at the main one, jobs?