Turning on a VPN is always a painful experience on an iOS device due to the deep nested menus. This App installs a Today Widget into Notification Center which make it possible to turn on a VPN in about 3 seconds(depends on the connection speed).
- An iPhone running iOS 8.1
- An IPSec IKEv1 VPN(create yours with my Ansible Playbook)
- Xcode 6.1.1
- An Apple iOS developer account
To compile the project, you may temporarily modify the bundle_id after adding yours into the Apple Developer Center. And then activate the following capabilities of both the container App and the widget:
- Personal VPN
- Keychain Sharing
- App Groups
Meanwhile, provisioning profiles are required for testing on iPhone.
After creating a VPN configuration you can activate the Today Widget in Notification Center, then turn on the VPN by tapping the switch. You may be asked to allow the installation of a VPN profile for the first time.
TODOs and issues are listed here.
This project follows the gitflow workflow. You'd better create a branch called feature/sth_improved before any major improvements. Meanwhile minor bug fixes are welcomed in the develop branch.
Most likely, Apple allows "Today" related widgets and rejects the others. Although it's impossible to pass the submission, I've just submit the tag 0.1 to App Store and pray for a miracle.
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At last, VPN On is now available on App Store!
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Note: I set the optimization level of VPNOnKit to None in order to read Keychain properly due to an issue of Swift.
This code is distributed under the terms and conditions of the MIT license.