RoyalVNC is a modern, high performance implementation of the VNC/RFB protocol written in Swift. The SDK (RoyalVNCKit) is compatible with Swift and Objective-C on macOS, iOS and iPadOS. It has no external dependencies but includes some free (public domain) third party code from the libtommath and D3DES libraries (see Credits).
Supported Features
Security Types (Authentication Methods)
- No Authentication
- VNC Password
- Apple Remote Desktop
- UltraVNC MS-Logon II
Encodings
- Zlib
- ZRLE
- Hextile
- CoRRE
- RRE
- CopyRect
Pseudo Encodings
- LastRect
- CompressionLevel
- DesktopName
- Cursor
- DesktopSize
- ExtendedDesktopSize
- ContinuousUpdates
Misc. Features
- Support for 8-bit, 16-bit and 24/32-bit color depths with high-performance framebuffer implementations.
- Clipboard redirection support for text in both ways (remote to local and local to remote).
- Connection state management and rendering is decoupled from each other, so it’s possible to build “headless” clients (ie. no rendering of the remote desktop).
- The SDK includes a ready-to-use implementation of a framebuffer view for macOS (subclass of
NSView), which also handles mouse and keyboard input, local cursor (NSCursor), scaling and rendering. The iOS/iPadOS equivalent (UIView) is a work-in-progress. - First-class error handling. The
VNCErrortype divides all possible errors into three broad categories: Protocol, Authentication and Connection errors. There are helper functions to retrieve human-readable descriptions for all errors and a convenience functions that allows the SDK consumer to distinguish between errors that should be displayed to the user and ones that shouldn’t. - The repository contains Demo/Sample clients for macOS (one written in Swift, one in Objective-C) and iOS/iPadOS.
Usage
See Usage.
License
Credits
- libtommath (The LibTom license)
- D3DES (Public Domain, Copyright Richard Outerbridge)
