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pythonista_undocumented.py compares introspection against http://omz-software.com/pythonista/docs/ios

Did I get it right?

keychain.get_services()
motion.MotionUpdates()
notification.set_badge()
scene.Button()
scene.Number()
scene.TextLayer()
scene.curve_ease_back_in()
scene.curve_ease_back_in_out()
scene.curve_ease_back_out()
scene.dedent()
scene.iskeyword()
scene.recordtype()
scene.size()
scene.sqrt()
sound.Player()
speech.get_languages()
speech.is_speaking()
ui.ActivityIndicator()
ui.ListDataSourceList()
ui.add_observer()
ui.begin_image_context()
ui.close_all()
ui.end_editing()
ui.end_image_context()
ui.get_keyboard_frame()
ui.remove_all_observers()
ui.remove_observer()
ui.set_alpha()

ActivityIndicator is in the docs, buried a bit. It is a class.

Thanks, I'll definitely get back to this list when I work on the documentation...

A couple of brief comments for now:

• ui.set_alpha() -- Sets the alpha (transparency) value when drawing in an ImageContext or view
• ui.remove_all_observers(), ui.remove_observer() -- will probably be removed or replaced with something that actually works (intentionally undocumented because of being unfinished)
• ui.get_keyboard_frame() -- should return the current frame of the on-screen keyboard in screen coordinates, not fully reliable.
• ui.begin_image_context(), ui.end_image_context() -- used internally by the ImageContext context manager, there isn't really any reason to use these directly.
• ui.ListDataSourceList() -- used internally by ListDataSource, probably not very useful outside of it.
• ui.ActivityIndicator() -- A "spinner" view class, the most important methods are start() and stop() which start/stop the animation. Can be used for loading indicators and the like. Should be mostly functional.
• speech.is_speaking(), speech.get_languages() -- These should be documented in the current beta.
• sound.Player() -- An object-oriented music/sound player interface... Basically, you create one by passing an absolute path to the constructor. It has play, pause and stop methods, which should be self-explanatory, and a current_time attribute which can be used for scrubbing etc.
• scene.dedent(), scene.iskeyword(), scene.recordtype(), scene.size(), scene.sqrt(), scene.Number() -- Stuff that the scene module imports from elsewhere.
• scene.TextLayer(), scene.Button -- Very simple layer subclasses written in Python (so you could look at the code via inspect.getsource).
• notification.set_badge() -- Sets the badge number of the app icon (only works when you've given the app permission to send notifications via one of the other notification methods)
• motion.MotionUpdates() -- Simple context manager for executing a block of code with motion updates enabled.
• keychain.get_services() -- Returns a list of service/username tuples that have been stored via keychain.set_password().

@omz re. _scene_types.recordtype - why not use collections.namedtuple from the stdlib? ;)

@degelessus If I remember correctly, because I wanted them to be mutable.

Now I'm wondering why there's no collections.namedlist in the stdlib.

@ccc, the scene easing functions you listed are documented at the end of the scene module docs.

And here are a few more undocumented attributes and what I've found out about them so far:

# Get the device's screen size. Works exactly like ui.get_screen_size(), but returns ints instead of floats.
width, height = console._get_screen_size()

# Does... something, mainly crashing the app.
console._save_raw_image_data(data, str2, width, height, str5)

# Class that provides motion data.
obj = _motion.MotionManager()

# Start and stop updates for this MotionManager.
MotionManager.start()
MotionManager.stop()

# Various motion data. Unlike all others, rotation_rate has no high-level getter in the motion module.
MotionManager.attitude
MotionManager.gravity
MotionManager.magnetic_field
MotionManager.rotation_rate
MotionManager.user_acceleration

# Instance of MotionManager used by the top-level motion functions.
motion.shared_manager

# Write text to console in stdout/stderr style. Colors can be changed using the console module.
_outputcapture.CaptureStdout(text)
_outputcapture.CaputreStderr(text)

# Read text from console input field.
text = _outputcapture.ReadStdin(some_int_that_has_no_effect)

# Display an exception.
_outputcapture.HandleException(line, type_str, value_str, traceback_str)