WWDC 2012 Keynote
WWDC 2013 Keynote
WWDC 2013 Platforms State of the Union
Be among the first to see the unveiling of MARI on OS X, the supercharged 3D painting package coming to the Mac later this year, running on the next generation Mac Pro. Jack Greasley, The Foundry’s MARI Product Manager, will chart MARI's rapid rise from in-house studio tool to the film industry’s painting tool of choice. He will detail MARI's evolution, from its original conception during Weta Digital's visual effects work on Avatar to becoming a critical element in making countless blockbusters a reality. Then watch as Pixar character shading artist, Jonathan Hoffman, makes full use of the power of the next generation Mac Pro to demonstrate how MARI was used to help bring Monsters University to life.
Leveraging the industry-leading support for accessibility in OS X can let you reach new markets. Hear about exciting new products, new API additions and improved security for both accessibility hosts and clients; all designed to help applications reach wider audiences and provide unparalleled access for users with disabilities. Learn techniques to make even the most custom UI accessible.
Learn how UIKit has changed to create iOS 7’s new UI, both conceptually and practically. Join us in considering new approaches to your app’s design based on these principles and explore your newly expanded toolbox so you can bring those designs to life.
iOS offers unmatched accessibility support that you can use to reach a wider audience. Hear about the latest changes in GuidedAccess and VoiceOver and how you can take advantage of these technologies to help people with disabilities stay on task and get more value out of your app.
iOS 7 introduces many enhancements made to the Cocoa Touch frameworks that will accelerate your development time and improve your app’s user experience. Get an overview of the changes to UIKit and other system frameworks, and find out which sessions you won’t want to miss.
It’s critical to keep people’s content as up to date as possible. Learn how new APIs in iOS 7 will let your applications fetch new data in the background to keep people up to date. See techniques you can use to perform operations in the background without draining the user’s battery. Understand how you can keep your app’s snapshot up to date so users see the latest content in the new multitasking interface in iOS 7. All these techniques will let you build an app that feels alive and always up to date.
Cocoa is a powerful set of frameworks on which OS X is built. Gain an overview of the advances in AppKit, Foundation, and related frameworks. Find out what technologies you need to focus on and what techniques you should adopt to develop state of the art apps for OS X.
UIKit Dynamics makes it easy to create animated view interactions and transitions to delight your users. Discover how animators and behaviors work by learning how to add subtle and meaningful dynamics to your app, making it stand out on the App Store.
Core Data is a powerful way for your app to store data locally or in iCloud. Learn about the latest advancements in Core Data for iOS, OS X, and iCloud. We’ll examine changes to Core Data’s use of SQLite and discuss improvements for iCloud at length.
Join us for an in-depth tour of the stunning and completely re-imagined iOS 7. See how the principles that guided the new design made our apps more useful, simple and beautiful. Learn how you can take advantage of iOS 7 to create a deeper and more engaging user experience.
Improved battery life and system responsiveness are important features in OS X 10.9. Learn how App Nap helps your application become a good power citizen. This session will dive into the details of how App Nap works, explore the API to tell the system when your application has important work to be done, and learn techniques using Xcode and other tools to pinpoint high power usage.
Text Kit is the powerful new text engine and API in iOS 7, providing sophisticated text handling and typesetting capabilities. Learn about Text Kit and how easy it can be to manipulate text on the fly, adjust text attributes, and apply the power of Core Text with fewer lines of code.
Learn strategies to squeeze the best performance from Core Data, including concurrency, advanced fetch request options, text searching, and object model design considerations. Master Instruments to find out how to see what is really going on behind the scenes.
Smooth animations and great performance are key to developing a state of the art app. Learn best practices when using animations with Auto Layout, see unique animations in OS X and understand how to create similar effects in your apps, and gain insight into common pitfalls.
UIKit provides powerful customization capabilities for iOS views and controls. Learn how to customize the look and feel of your app to embrace the new UI of iOS 7 and see how to effectively use tinting and images to create an immersive, high quality user experience.
Creating a responsive app requires fast drawing and smooth scrolling. Discover techniques to optimize drawing, find out best practices for handling layers, and learn how to combine those techniques with new features to achieve smooth scrolling.
Learn how to leverage your existing iOS codebase to bring applications to the Mac. UIKit on iOS and AppKit on the Mac share a common heritage and many similarities. Below both of them, sit many frameworks that are shared. Learn design patterns that will make the conversion easier, discover tips and tricks of the conversion process, and explore Mac-only technologies that are important to include.
UIScrollView is an important building block for constructing iOS interfaces. Join us for a tour of how scroll views are used in new and interesting ways across iOS 7 to create stunning interactions. Learn tips and tricks for using scroll views to create immersive effects in your apps.
View controllers now allow you to create custom transitions, giving you expanded control over your user interface. Learn how to take advantage of custom transitions by using powerful new animation APIs, explore changes with full screen layouts, and see how to use navigation controllers with collection views to create a truly immersive experience.
Making your app support users in multiple countries and languages is easy with the built-in power of iOS and OS X. Walk through the basics of internationalization and localization, gain insight into common pitfalls, and learn best practices when targeting an international audience.
Move beyond the basics and unlock the full power of Text Kit for advanced text handling in your apps. Understand how to use hit detection and pixel-perfect layout information for responding to user touches. Discover new text effects, including a sophisticated letterpress look, and dive deeper into the mechanics of Text Kit for displaying multi-page documents and custom layouts.
Go beyond the basics to learn how to combine dynamic behaviors to create rich interactions. Discover how to apply dynamics to view controllers, collection views, and your own view subclasses to create engaging layouts and transitions. Learn best practices to keep your app responsive and performing well.
State Restoration makes for a seamless experience when people returns to your app. Find out what’s new in State Restoration and learn about new capabilities in iOS 7 to restore model objects, system view controllers, and discover techniques to transition smoothly when views may have changed while people have been using other apps.
Choosing the right fonts and using them effectively are key to engaging your users. Gain a practical understanding of how fonts work in Text Kit, learn best practices for using system-provided and bundled fonts, and discover how to give users more control over their content with text styles.
Effective use of the right data structures can make a big difference in the responsiveness of an app. Come learn about the performance characteristics of the Foundation collections, how to select one that best fits your needs, and how to design software to use them efficiently.
Designing a great user interface for your iOS app requires tremendous care, creativity, continual iteration, and a solid understanding of platform conventions and UI design best practices. Learn techniques to avoid common UI pitfalls and gain key insights into what it takes to create an app that is intuitive and beautiful.
Users expect interesting animations and responsive interactions. Learn how to achieve this by making view controller transitions smooth, optimizing performance when using images, and harnessing customization APIs alongside new iOS 7 features.
Working with dates and times can be tricky and yet it’s vital that they’re handled correctly. Simple date calculations can be surprisingly challenging and getting the calculations right in every case isn’t easy. Hear about new APIs that simplify common operations and best practices for handling common tasks correctly.
Learn from the experts about the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch classes you may not even know exist, as well as some very obscure but extremely valuable classes that are favorites of the presenters.
Learn about an exciting new approach to managing Apple devices in an enterprise environment. Learn how MDM can be used to wirelessly configure settings, monitor compliance with policies, install apps, and remotely wipe devices, and how these capabilities can be integrated with in-house or third-party server solutions.
Business and education markets are a growing audience for iOS apps. With new capabilities in iOS 7 and a few key concepts you can fine tune your app to meet the needs of large organizations. Learn about data security, authentication, integration with enterprise systems, app configuration and customization, and the distribution options available to you. This session is not just for enterprise developers, but for all developers looking to extend their reach and get their apps in the hands of business professionals, educators, and students worldwide.
Passbook is the easiest way for users to keep track of their boarding passes, event tickets, coupons and more. See how to streamline the process of adding multiple passes to Passbook in a single operation. Find out how to optimize location relevance using iBeacons. Learn about all of the improvements in Passbook that give you more control and flexibility in your passes.
Implementing a rich Passbook experience requires coordination between your application, back end server and point of redemption. Hear how the Apple Store engineering team rolled out gift card passes used in the Apple Retail stores. Get best practice advice and pointers from the Passbook engineering team about how to avoid pitfalls during development to ensure your users get the most out of Passbook.
Learn about the latest improvements to Map Kit, including end-to-end directions and customized map view callouts. Find out how you can snapshot maps in various ways to optimize your content or use maps in new ways. And now, Map Kit is also available for OS X, so you explore how to enhance your Mac apps with maps.
In-App Purchase continues to be a terrific mechanism for selling products, services and subscriptions directly from your app. Get all the details you need to implement a digital storefront in your OS X or iOS app. Hear how you can now take advantage of subscriptions in OS X and hear best practices for how to capitalize on selling digital products in your app.
iTunes Connect is critical element of deploying your app on the App Store. Hear about all the latest improvements including configuring Game Center options and new options for managing apps across teams. Take a deep dive into how you can dramatically improve your workflow for managing metadata, localization, app assets, and more.
Core Location offers a variety of ways you can find out where your users are and when they are on the move. Hear an update on changes to Core Location and dive deep into the new world of beacon regions. Leveraging Bluetooth Low Energy, iBeacons open up a whole new dimension in region monitoring. Gain a practical understanding of how you can efficiently create beacon regions for important locations so your app can be alerted when users enter them, and techniques for detecting proximity to physical objects.
The App Store, Mac App Store and In-App Purchases support a wide range of business models to generate revenue from your digital products. Whether you offer a paid app or a free app with In-App Purchases, you need to protect yourself by verifying receipts for those purchases. Get all the details on how receipt validation is changing in iOS and hear best practices for combating fraud.
iOS 6 introduced a 3D view in Maps and now your app can take advantage of this view as well using Map Kit. Dive deep into how to use 3D mode for Map Views and how you can use it to build dramatic cinematic views to engage your users. Understand how to control the viewport in order to look at specific points on a map from particular angles and how to work with annotations in 3D. See how you can create snapshot of map views for flexibility and performance.
Enrich the user experience in your apps by leveraging key iOS technologies in innovative ways. The Apple Store app engineering team will show you how they used Push Notifications, Core Location, Region Monitoring, and Bluetooth to create compelling product pickup and in-store experiences for their customers. Learn tips, tricks, and best practices, and see how you can also offer great experiences in your apps around event notifications, welcoming users to locations of interest, and enabling rich user interactions with their surroundings.
Xcode is the development environment for creating amazing apps for OS X and iOS. Start the week by watching the Xcode team demonstrate the latest features and enhanced workflows in Xcode 5. This session is a great overview of the many in-depth Developer Tools topics covered at WWDC 2013.
Xcode has a wealth of features to help you be more productive than ever before. Join engineers from the Xcode team as they teach the basics of using Xcode, demonstrate power-user workflows, and help you get the most out of your development environment.
Apple continues to invest in the LLVM compiler technology, and that investment has been paying off in spades. Get details on the latest improvements to the compiler and static analyzer. See how to get the most out of these tools with settings in Xcode.
New account management features in Xcode 5 make it easier than ever to sign and package your app. Join Xcode engineers as they take a brand new project through to App Store submission. See how the new capabilities editor makes it simple to add iCloud, Passbook, and other features and entitlements entirely within the Xcode environment.
Objective-C is continuing to evolve as a powerful object-oriented programming language. Technologies like Automatic Reference Counting let you build more robust and easier to maintain code. Modules make it easier than ever to reference framework classes. See how this new technology will help keep your project organized and how you can take advantage of it. Find out about all the newest features and improvements to Objective-C.
The Interface Builder feature built into Xcode makes it easy to create world-class interfaces using a design canvas. Learn how to use storyboards to arrange the views of your app, and employ Auto Layout to ensure your design adapts to changes in screen size, orientation, and localization. See how to easily wire up connections between your beautiful UI and your implementation code using the Assistant editor.
Auto Layout’s powerful constraint-based engine enables a single user interface to work beautifully on both iOS 6 and iOS 7, and respond dynamically to changes in the size of controls, rotation, or localization. See how the improvements to Auto Layout in Xcode 5 make it even easier to quickly build flexible, modern interfaces.
Xcode includes a powerful graphical debugger backed by the new, state-of-the-art LLDB debugging engine. Discover how you can detect and fix your performance problems earlier, configure advanced breakpoints, easily explore your variables within the editor, and take advantage of the new XPC debugging support built right into Xcode.
The Apple LLVM compiler has evolved at a staggering pace, providing remarkably quick compile times and generating lightning-fast code. Hear from the experts on how LLVM technologies can help you write better code. Dive deep into specific techniques to see how you can produce the most efficient code possible.
Unit testing is an essential tool to consistently verify that your code works correctly. Learn how Xcode 5 makes it dramatically easier to create, edit, execute, and understand your tests.
Using memory responsibly can be the key to stability and ensuring a great user experience. Get a look at new memory tools and learn helpful patterns for dealing with common memory issues specific to reference counting in Objective-C.
Unit tests are great, but to get the most value from them you need to test continuously. Xcode bots make testing easy, as they automatically build, analyze, test, and archive your project in a repeatable manner. See the Xcode team give a start-to-finish demonstration of setting up the new continuous integration support in Xcode.
Dive deep into using LLDB via the terminal interface and within Xcode’s graphical debugger. See the latest features, improvements, and advanced techniques to help you track down bugs more efficiently than ever before.
Learn how Xcode’s source control features can help you work more efficiently with your team, juggle numerous development branches, find and fix bugs, and better understand the history of your code with the Version editor.
When you have a problem, there are numerous avenues to get help, from communicating with Apple to reaching out to your fellow developers for their advice. Gain insight from Apple engineers into how your bug reports make a difference in the software we ship. Understand the different ways you can help us help you with your questions about shipping your apps on the App Store, getting Technical Support, or how to make the most out of seed releases.
In a major update and enhancement to its native scripting language, OS X delivers a new plugin architecture for AppleScript, enabling easy development and access to custom sets of functions and methods. Each individual AppleScript Library, saved as an AppleScript script file, can publish its own scripting terminology, and contain dozens of routines written in native AppleScript or the incredibly powerful AppleScriptObjective-C. Scripting just got a whole lot better!
The Automation technologies in OS X continue to improve with each release, and the new automation features of OS X provide great examples. Highlights include new notification actions and commands, built-in developer code-signing for AppleScript applets and droplets, and new innovative and versatile AppleScript Libraries that easily extend application and OS scripting functionality.
Scene Kit is a high-level Objective-C framework that enables your app to efficiently load, manipulate, and render 3D scenes. Check out what’s new in Scene Kit and understand how your apps can take advantage of the latest additions. Learn how to extend Scene Kit rendering with custom OpenGL shaders, see how to integrate morphing and skinning, and dive into advanced image effects.
The Game Controller framework in iOS 7 and OS X 10.9 enables games to integrate with physical game controllers and take advantage of exciting new modes of input. Learn how to add support for MFi game controllers with physical d-pads, buttons, triggers, joysticks, and more. Understand the approach for discovering and connecting to controllers and how to support both wireless and form-fitting controller types. See how to map physical controls to game inputs, and get expert advice about the best practices to follow in your titles.
Sprite Kit is a powerful graphics framework ready-made for developing 2D action games, platformers, puzzle games, and much more. Get introduced to the Sprite Kit API and learn key details about controlling and rendering sprites. Discover how to leverage built-in physics support to make animations look real, and learn about using particle systems to create essential game effects such as fire, snow, explosions, and smoke. This is the first of two must-attend sessions for all developers creating games for iOS or OS X.
Dive into the practical workflow of developing a 2D adventure game using Sprite Kit. See how to get started, and learn about tools for optimizing image assets, creating particle systems, and building game levels. Understand how Sprite Kit integrates with your art pipeline and get expert guidance to share with your artists. Come away from the session with a fully functioning game in-hand and its code explained.
Make your games even better by taking advantage of Game Center, Apple’s social gaming network. Learn about the latest additions to Game Center and enhancements to the Game Center user interface. Discover new techniques for tracking scores and expanding your leaderboards. Encourage interaction between your players by integrating challenges into your game.
OpenGL ES provides access to the exceptional graphics power of iOS devices. See how the innovations in iOS 7 deliver incredible graphics in games and other mobile 3D applications. Learn about advanced effects enabled by the latest extensions, and get specific tips and best practices to follow in your apps.
Turn-based gaming has taken off with the addition of asynchronous multiplayer gaming in Game Center. Dive into the latest developments in turn-based play. See how to add in-game trading, player chat, negotiations, and much more by using exchanges. Learn about the API and gain insight into managing game states and multiple game sessions.
OpenGL is the foundation for GPU-accelerated graphics on OS X, enabling a broad range of applications including games, animation software, and imaging solutions. See how your apps can deliver incredible visuals and high performance using the OpenGL 4.1 Core Profile. Learn how to take advantage of multiple GPUs and access the computational capabilities of OpenCL.
OpenCL lets your application unleash the parallel computing power of modern GPUs and multicore CPUs. Learn how use OpenCL to accelerate a wide range of compute-intensive tasks found in applications today. Explore the tight integration between OpenCL and OpenGL and see how to tap into the full processing capabilities of the Mac.
Core Image lets you create incredible visual effects in your photo and video apps. Learn how to harness the new filters added in iOS 7 and OS X 10.9. Check out the seamless integration with OpenGL and OpenCL on the Mac. Understand recommended practices for using Core Image efficiently and see how to maximize its powerful features.
Whether you publish a web site or embed web views in your Mac or iOS application, this is where you can learn about new and upcoming web technologies in Safari and WebKit. Find out how to take advantage of new HTML, CSS, and JavaScript capabilities to interact better with Apple devices and deliver a richer browsing experience for users.
Web Inspector is a powerful tool for understanding the behavior of your web site. Gain an overview of everything Web Inspector can do. Explore the user interface and learn about features that will make your life easier. Learn how to connect the Safari Web Inspector to your iPhone or iPad for on-device testing. Find out how to inspect, tweak, optimize, and debug the web content in your web, Mac, or iOS app.
Core Audio is the professional-grade technology for playing, processing and recording audio on iOS. Learn how your apps can take advantage of the latest advances in Core Audio. Discover how to send and receive audio between multiple apps, allowing for advanced mixing, effects, and sound generation.
Dig deeper into the many enhancements and new features that Safari has added to Web Inspector. Learn how to use them for more advanced inspection, tweaking, profiling, and debugging of your web content on iOS and the Mac. If web technologies are at the core of your web, Mac, or iOS app, this session will show you how Web Inspector can help you get the results you want.
Powered by iAd, iAd Workbench makes it easy to create and manage mobile campaigns optimized to drive downloads of your app. Learn the entire workflow for promoting app downloads from selection of an Apple designed or custom banner to reviewing an active campaign and optimizing for performance.
iBooks Author lets you use a drag-and-drop interface to create rich and immersive books for the iBookstore. Discover best practices for book design and asset preparation, and learn how to use the iBooks Author interface efficiently to develop your book. See how to enhance your book with rich media such as audio, video, and animations, plus get tips for testing your book before submitting it to the iBookstore.
AV Foundation is the recommended framework for working with time-based audiovisual media. Learn how to transition your QuickTime or QTKit based media app to AV Foundation and understand the key concepts underlying the modern media architecture of OS X. Explore how AV Kit makes it easy to play modern media in your OS X apps by providing view-level services for playback, standard navigation controls, chapter selection, and support for subtitles.
People want a great web experience that doesn’t drain their battery and provides the ultimate in scrolling responsiveness. Find out how you can tune your content for optimum performance and efficiency. Learn how to work with Safari techniques and web features that help you save power. Discover how to get the smoothest possible scrolling for your content.
AV Foundation automatically selects appropriate audio and subtitle tracks in your media. Learn how media selection works and find out how to author media with accessibility features like subtitles and closed captions. Go beyond the basics to use AV Foundation for customizing subtitle appearance and presentation.
iAd Producer’s drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to deliver highly interactive iAd rich media ads, iBooks Author HTML5 widgets, and more. Discover how the refined environment for actions and objects, an expanded library of customizable interactive objects, integration of iAd Blueprints, and widget templates increase your efficiencies and creative possibilities.
AV Foundation provides your application with access to the powerful camera imaging sensors built-in to all iOS devices. iOS 7 enables finer grained control over the capture format, support for zoom, built-in barcode recognition, and enhancements to autofocus. If your application uses the camera on iOS you want to attend.
iAd Producer’s visual design approach belies its advanced customization and development capabilities. We’ll go beyond drag-and-drop to discover powerful iAd JS classes, show you how to create dynamic data-driven objects, and demonstrate debugging and performance optimization techniques you can use right away.
AV Foundation provides powerful services for editing video and audio in your iOS or OS X apps. See the tremendous control and flexibility AV Foundation offers. Learn how custom compositors create new possibilities for advanced transitions and effects. Gain expert insight into best practices for integrating compositions into your app and working with audio mixes.
iAd technologies built-in to iOS let you easily incorporate advertising into your app. Come to discover what’s new in the iAd Framework, multi-view banner strategies, effective integration with Storyboards, and more. You’ll walk away with actionable implementation best practices and the tactics necessary to ensure maximum ad performance.
Learn how to prepare your website for push notifications. See how to sign up your users to receive notifications even when your site is not running in Safari. Find out about best practices for managing notifications across both the web and your applications.
Introducing a new Objective-C API to JavaScriptCore. iOS developers can now integrate scripting into their apps without having to bundle custom language interpreters. This API builds on top of the existing C API to JavaScriptCore available on Mac, and makes programming with JavaScript much easier and less error-prone.
Learn about services that allow apps to interact with accessories. Understand your options for designing hardware solutions, including the latest on Wi-Fi, AirPlay, Bluetooth, and the Lightning connector.
Helping users get the most out of their battery is a cornerstone of modern application development. Join Vice President of Software Technology, Bud Tribble, and get a rare tour through the latest energy-efficient Apple hardware, learn about new features and API in OS X that help prolong battery life, and discover how your app can become even more energy efficient by adopting the latest best practices and API.
XPC has been enhanced to make it even easier to design for robustness and efficiency. Learn how to save power by opportunistically scheduling long-running tasks, transferring large amounts of data with minimal overhead, and how to best compartmentalize your app.
Core Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy enable a new category of Bluetooth accessories which have an incredibly long battery life. With CoreBluetooth, iOS apps can talk with shoes to find out how far they’ve run and jumped, make toys come to life, fly a paper airplane, find car keys and remote controls, open a door lock, and find out why a check engine light is on. Learn what’s new in CoreBluetooth and the new ways that iOS apps can interact with Bluetooth Low Energy accessories.
Apps on OS X must share a common pool of system resources. Learn the tips and tools for making the best use of these shared resources to improve both your performance and the performance of your user’s systems. See how to investigate your app’s impact on system memory use and disk I/O, and learn techniques for doing work in the background without impacting performance.
The Foundation networking APIs provide powerful networking solutions for your app. Learn about the new NSURLSession API that lets you do out-of-process networking and configuration options. Learn how to create a NSNetService based server. Learn the best practices for HTTP authentication, proxies, and scheduling.
OS X Kernel Extensions are used to deliver device drivers and other kernel-level support software. Learn what is new with Kext development, including how to sign your kext, how to use lldb for kernel debugging, and how to build and deploy kexts for multiple releases of OS X.
Multipeer Connectivity is a new networking framework that enables discovery of, and communication with, nearby devices. Learn the basics, hear about the best practices, and see how writing networking code can be easy, fun, and powerful.
The iOS and OS X keychains are designed to protect sensitive data such as passwords, keys, and credentials. Learn why the keychain provides more security than other methods of storing data, when it’s appropriate to use the keychain, and how to use the keychain for common tasks such as saving passwords and importing and exporting certificates in various formats.
Discover how you can use App Sandbox to protect your app’s users from unintentional bugs or deliberate attempts to compromise security. Understand sandboxing’s security goals, how applications and their data are isolated from each other, and how to express the resources your application needs. Learn about App Sandbox-related APIs and entitlements, and how to adopt them for your app to meet the Mac App Store Guidelines.
AirPrint is the iOS and OS X printing system, a revolutionary printing architecture that makes printing easy for users and app developers. Learn all about AirPrint, how it has grown, and best practices for adding printing to iOS apps.
Your apps play a vital role in maximizing battery life. Learn how to use Power Tools and new APIs to write energy-efficient code. Find out if your app is using excessive CPU or timers, and how to adopt design patterns that will avoid these problems.
The Accelerate framework contains signal and image processing, matrix, and linear algebra computation. Learn about new signal and image processing functionality. Find out how you can use the Accelerate framework to achieve dramatic improvements in performance and energy consumption.
Learn about new iOS and OS X privacy features and get details on new and updated APIs. Hear best practices for delivering great features and respecting your customers’ privacy.
WWDC 2014 Keynote
WWDC 2014 Platforms State of the Union
Join us for an unforgettable award ceremony celebrating developers and their outstanding work. The 2014 Apple Design Awards recognize state of the art iOS apps and OS X apps that reflect the very best in design, innovation, and technology excellence.
Making your app appealing to customers around the world requires more than basic localization. See how to tackle the complex aspects of making your app truly world-ready. Learn about the latest developments with internationalization on iOS and OS X, and learn from case studies illustrating common pitfalls to avoid and simple and effective techniques. Find out how to give your users a great experience no matter what language they speak or where they live.
iOS 8 brings enhancements to the Cocoa Touch frameworks for making next generation apps on iOS. Learn about updates to view controllers, the introduction of size classes, and get an overview of all new APIs to help you create adaptive apps. Hear about new capabilities, such as extensions and handoff, which will enable you to create great experiences for users to keep them up to date at all times or allow them to continue their workflow when they move from one device to another. Find out which sessions you won't want to miss throughout the week.
HealthKit is a brand new framework that centralizes the data storage of personal health information. Learn from the framework authors how to save, query, and interpret health data to make your apps more engaging and personal for your users.
OS X Yosemite brings a clean new look, view controller enhancements, Mac storyboards, app extensions, Continuity, and many additional features you can leverage through the Cocoa frameworks. This is your first stop to discover great Cocoa sessions throughout the week.
Extensions enable you to keep people engaged with your content across iOS and OS X. Learn how to create extensions that share content with social websites, engage users in Notification Center, and enable a variety of other exciting features. Tap into the potential of extensions and prepare to dive into advanced topics in Part 2.
The modern WebKit framework enables developers to integrate web content into their native app experience with more features and fewer lines of code. Dive into the latest WebKit enhancements including modern Objective-C features such as blocks and explicit object types, advanced bridging between JavaScript and Objective-C, increased JavaScript performance via WebKit's super-fast JIT, and moreâall delivered in an API unified for both iOS and OS X.
OS X is known for its unsurpassed level of accessibility. Find out about an all-new OS X accessibility API to make adding accessibility support to your apps even easier. Discover how to add support for VoiceOver, Switch Control, automation and other assistive-technology clients to work with your OS X applications. Learn advanced techniques to make complex controls accessible with only a few lines of code.
CloudKit is the framework that powers iCloud on iOS and OS X, now available directly in your app. Learn how you can take advantage of its feature-rich API to store and query your own custom data and assets in iCloud.
Adapting Your App to the New UI of OS X Yosemite Take a tour of the new appearances and behaviors that Cocoa supports and learn how easy it is to adopt them when you use standard Cocoa classes. Get an overview of the changes to Cocoa and find out how to make your app fit in and feel familiar to people using OS X Yosemite.
iOS offers unmatched accessibility support that can help you reach a wider audience. Join us for an exploration of the features that iOS offers for users with specific needs, in areas such as vision, hearing, movement, and learning. Learn how to leverage existing and new UIAccessibility APIs in iOS 8, including expanded support for low vision users, to ensure that your app's features are available to all users.
Learn about the key concepts and principles that will enable you to make your app intuitive and approachable. Gain insights into how you can harness UI animations to help people stay oriented, get clear and meaningful feedback, and navigate with ease.
Learn how to build your OS X application using storyboards, view controllers, and gesture recognizers. See how these OS X enhancements can simplify complex user interaction controller code. Gain a practical understanding with a high level introduction to Xcode's Interface Builder integration and dive deep into a detailed discussion of the new APIs with tips to create great apps for OS X.
iOS 8 introduces HomeKit, a high-level device connectivity framework enabling apps to interact with physical accessories in the world around us. Learn the objects that define these devices, see how to control them, and discover how to create a full device control experience for the home.
View controllers are fundamental to creating apps on iOS. Learn about the enhancements made to view controllers in iOS 8 to improve the user experience in your apps. Dive into using and creating transition coordinators and find out about all-new additions to split view controllers and navigation controllers.
Building your apps to be flexible enough to be used in different orientations and on different devices is crucial. Learn about the enhancements that have been made to UIKit view controllers to make it even easier for you to adapt your user interface to any size or orientation. See how to effectively use size classes to ensure a great user experience for any context and find out how Xcode can help you create and test your apps for different sized devices.
Take the plunge into advanced extension concepts such as creating custom action extensions. Dive deep into extension architecture to learn how to provide a consistent experience between extensions and your app. See how to utilize extensions with Safari to bridge the gap between your websites and native apps, and discover how to make great extensions that users will love.
Being successful with In-App Purchases requires much more than just having a store within your app. A well-designed experience motivates customers to purchase, offers them the items that they want based on what's happening, communicates item details and pricing clearly, and provides vital feedback about the purchasing process. Learn key design techniques, how best to communicate when new content and subscriptions become available, how to handle large sets of In-App content, and important StoreKit tips.
Handoff allows people to seamlessly move activities between devices and pick up right where they left off. Learn how to save, transfer, and restore user activities in apps of all architectures. See how easy it is to add Handoff support to your iOS and OS X apps to make your user experience even better.
OS X Yosemite introduces a refined new look, and Cocoa provides you with a rich set of APIs and facilities to embrace this new look in your application. Discover how to properly use these APIs to bring the refinement, translucency, and vibrancy of OS X Yosemite to your apps. Dive deep into a number of case studies demonstrating applications with different designs and needs.
Make your app stand out from the competition with a compelling, yet familiar, user interface, and custom controls that match your app's personality and effectively reveal it's key features. Learn advanced Core Animation techniques such as spring view animations, and see new visual effects such as blur and vibrancy and how they can give your apps a visual edge.
iAd technologies built into iOS let you easily include advertising in your app. Discover what's new in the iAd Framework, including multi-view banner strategies, full screen and video interstitials, and best practices to ensure optimal ad performance. You'll also learn how to implement iAd App Attribution to help you accurately measure the lifetime value of newly acquired customers.
Make better apps by trying things out first, before you write any code. Get a glimpse of Apple's prototyping process and the range of tools and techniques we use, some of which might surprise you.
Get the most out of iOS's frameworks by understanding their core idioms and expectations. Learn about pervasive design patterns like "Model, View, Controller", Target/Action, Delegation and others used throughout Cocoa Touch. Gain practical knowledge of architectural idioms to organize your code for flexibility, clarity and reliability. See how to structure your app to take full advantage of Apple's frameworks.
Learn about the latest enhancements to the Core Data framework. Hear how to efficiently update your objects, execute simultaneous operations, and extend the framework to support your custom requirements.
iOS 8 brings dynamic type front and foremost throughout UIKit classes. Learn about extensive enhancements made to table views and collection views, empowering you to create dynamically sized cells and exercise greater control over layouts. Find out how to align user expectations from their settings to your UI.
Developing apps for OS X Yosemite is easier than ever with new enhancements to Cocoa. Learn how to use these new tools and APIs to develop a modern OS X app. Explore what's now available in Cocoa and learn to harness and implement these key technologies to make your app at once totally modern and familiar to people using it on OS X Yosemite.
iOS 8 brings you powerful new means of presenting content within your apps. Hear how presentation controllers were leveraged by UIKit to give you fine grain control using new alert and searching APIs. Dive deep into how presentation controllers work and how you can use them to present content within your app in exciting new ways.
Explore a selection of high-level software engineering techniques presented in the context of Cocoa Touch. Learn how to manage complexity in large codebases by clearly defining where truth resides, by controlling state with Swift's powerful value types and immutability, and by thinking in terms of composition.
Learn how to effectively introduce new users to the capabilities and features of your app or game in a way that will draw them in the very first time and then keep them coming back.
Dive deep into CloudKit! Learn how to perform advanced operations on records and store private data and gain a deeper understanding about custom record zones, ensuring data integrity, and effectively modeling your data.
Building an advanced user interface with collection view requires a great design, careful code architecture, and often times a custom layout. Learn how the iTunes team used UICollectionView to deliver a new version of the iTunes Connect app with an updated user interface incorporating pinning headers, swipe to edit and reorder, and a manageable code-base.
Learn what the iWork engineers did to ship iWork for iOS and Mac from a single codebase. Explore the patterns for sharing code between desktop and mobile, and see how you can optimize your code and write great apps.
Come hear the advancements in document handling in iOS 8. See how easy it is to use the new Document Picker UI. Learn how to share documents between apps, and even provide documents to other apps from your custom data store.
Scrollviews build on gesture recognizers and underlying multi-touch mechanics to provide a fundamental piece of the iOS user experience. Gain a broader understanding of the iOS touch handling architecture through practical real-world examples. Discover advanced tips and tricks for combining scrolling with other touch handling techniques to create delightful user interfaces.
Learn how to fluidly transition interactive UI elements from gesture-driven control to animated transitions. Take advantage of new iOS 8 behavior to smoothly transition between several animations on the same view. Discover architectural approaches to interfaces which remain interactive while they animate.
Experience with past projects can help you do better work in the future if you can draw out the right lessons from what's happened. Hear stories and gain valuable insights from a senior engineer, with a lot of Apple software development experience, who's learned a few lessons along the way and figured out some useful approaches to take.
Earn commission while linking to iTunes music, apps, books, and more. Get an overview of the new global iTunes Affiliate Program and see how simple it is to get started linking to iTunes content using iOS APIs and SmartApp Banners, creating iTunes Radio stations, and much more.
Get acquainted with the new iTunes Connectâyour hub for publishing on the App Store. Learn about new ways to market with App Bundles and App Previews and how to make even better apps with App Analytics and TestFlight Beta Testing.
Using the StoreKit framework properly and optimizing the user experience of your In-App store is vital in order to never miss out on a sale or confuse people. Learn valuable techniques for a trouble free browsing and purchasing experience, and to ensure your app gets through the app submission process smoothly.
Spark interest in your app by showing a compelling video preview highlighting the magic moments that make your app unique. Learn how to plan, create and publish your App Preview using Apple's tools, guidelines and best practices.
Receipts provide a valuable record of the sale for an app or for any In-App Purchases made from within an app. You can add receipt validation code to your app to prevent unauthorized purchases and protect your content. Learn how to verify exactly what people have paid for and how to validate these transactions.
Automation in OS X has always been about power and choice. Scriptable applications, including Pages, Keynote, Numbers, and the Finder, can already be automated using a variety of languages, including AppleScript, Objective-C, Perl, Python, and Ruby. With OS X Yosemite, application scripting support has been added to another popular language, JavaScript. JavaScript for Automation (JXA) extends the standard JavaScript environment provided by the JavaScriptCore framework with support for querying and controlling all of the scriptable applications running in OS X. JXA scripts are supported at all layers of the system and can be invoked from the command-line, from the system-wide Script Menu, and can even be distributed as code-signed applications.
Xcode is the development environment for creating amazing apps for iOS and OS X. Start the week by watching the Xcode team demonstrate the latest features and workflows in Xcode 6. This session also provides a complete overview of the in-depth developer tools topics covered at WWDC 2014.
Swift is Apple's brand-new programming language for writing great iOS and OS X apps. Learn the basics of the language. See how to declare variables, use the fundamental data types, declare functions, and implement classes. Explore some of the great features that make Swift a safe, modern, and extremely powerful language.
Explore the modern features of the Swift programming language. Learn about object initialization, closures, and optionals. See how you can perform pattern matching using Swift's powerful switch statements.
Dive deep into Swift! Explore some of its more powerful features, like operator overloading, string interpolation, and advanced pattern matching. Learn how to take advantage of generics to write terse and expressive code.
Swift makes it faster, easier, and more fun than ever to write Cocoa apps. See how you can integrate Swift alongside your existing Objective-C code. Learn how design patterns translate between languages and how you can start integrating Swift into your apps today.
Swift and Objective-C work together at multiple levels to ensure that you can create great apps for iOS and OS X. Dive deep with us to see how to use fundamental Core Foundation and C types in your Swift code. Learn how bridging values work and gain a practical understanding of how Swift and Objective-C can accelerate your app development.
Playgrounds are a new and innovative way to explore the Swift programming language. Explore how Playgrounds provide new workflows, enable rapid development, help you conveniently step through your code to diagnose bugs, and make it easier than ever to learn new concepts.
Learn how to use LLDB, Apple's state-of-the-art debugger. Learn how to analyze stack traces and diagnose bugs. See how you can test your hypotheses and explore your app's state with the Swift REPL.
Explore LLDB's powerful features that help you more quickly debug your Swift code. Learn about LLDB's support for protocols, generics, optionals, and mixed-language source code.
Interface Builder makes it easy to create world-class interfaces using the design canvas. Learn how to use storyboards to arrange the views of your app, use Auto Layout to adapt to changes, and see how to easily make connections between your UI and your implementation on both iOS and OS X.
Your app deserves a global audience, and iOS, OS X, and Xcode 6 make it easy to design and test applications in multiple languages. Discover how you can easily add and manage localized content, preview and test with different languages, and export and import content for localizers to translate.
Xcode provides a powerful debugging user interface backed by the new state-of-the-art LLDB debugger. Discover how you can more easily explore and fix your user interfaces, add custom Quick Look support for your own classes and get deeper insight into how and from where your app is enqueuing work.
Unit testing is an essential tool to consistently verify your code works correctly. Learn how Xcode 6 takes this to the next level with support for performance testing, baselining, and integration with Xcode bots to continually monitor your performance over time and devices.
Xcode bots provide a seamless way to continually build, analyze, and test your applications across many devices. See the Xcode team show how to set up and configure bots, review unit and performance testing data, and set up custom triggers and integration points.
Frameworks are a great way to share code between your apps and their extensions. Learn how you can convert your static libraries into frameworks. Go in-depth on how to best organize and share your code between your projects so you can increase code reuse.
The Apple LLVM compiler continues to evolve, with support for 64-bit iOS products, powerful new optimizations, and other new features. Learn about some of the advanced technology that the compiler uses to increase the performance of your code, and get details on how to take advantage of the latest features in the compiler.
Whether you're new to optimizing your app's performance or a seasoned veteran, learn about the new version of Instruments. See the new workflows, tools, and tips that will help you analyze and refine your app as it adopts the latest Apple technologies, including Swift and app extensions.
Creating a responsive UI requires an understanding of Core Animation and how mobile GPUs work. Learn about the iOS rendering pipeline in Core Animation, the new UIVisualEffectView and how it utilizes the GPU. Find out about the available tools for profiling UI performance. See how to identify and fix performance issues on a variety of devices.
See what's new in Core Audio for iOS and OS X. Be introduced to the powerful new APIs for managing audio buffers, files, and data formats. Learn how to incorporate views to facilitate switching between inter-app audio apps on iOS. Take an in depth look at how to tag Audio Units and utilize MIDI over Bluetooth LE.
Dive deeper into the new Objective-C based audio graph system in AV Foundation. Learn how apps can utilize rich audio services from simple audio playback tasks to complex audio rendering chains, including effects and 3D spatial rendering for games.
Media playback just got easier and more powerful with the introduction of AVKit on iOS. Hear how AVKit provides view-level services that give you access to the modern media capabilities of AV Foundation. Learn the best practices for playing audiovisual media on iOS and OS X.
With the increasing popularity of media on the web, content providers find themselves confronted by an over-abundance of formats, codecs and technologies competing for their attention. See how to use the latest HTML5 technologies in WebKit and Safari to make it easier to deliver media to your users and explore the performance and user experience tradeoffs you'll need to keep in mind when deciding between building for simplicity and fine-grained control.
Rich metadata, such as time, date, location, and user defined tags, are particularly useful for time-based media. Discover how to harness static and timed metadata in your AV Foundation apps. See how to write metadata into media and read it during playback. Gain knowledge of best practices for privacy and protecting user data.
While a modern digital presence combines both apps and traditional web sites, people expect a coherent, seamless, and device-optimized experience in each case. Learn techniques and best practices for successfully making transitions between iOS and OS X apps and the web. Gain insights into the appropriate web standards you can use to make your web content look and work optimally in Safari.
Learn about using manual controls to manipulate focus, exposure, and white balance. Take control of the camera's focus position, ISO, shutter speed, temperature, tint, and more. Learn how to use the new iOS 8 exposure bracketing API to enable powerful creative and computational photography applications. Discover view-level services for capturing audio and video on OS X.
WebGL allows you to create amazing content that lifts off the page. Learn how to use WebGL to create immersive online experiences, display three-dimensional models with real-time interactivity and use image processing techniques typically thought of as unavailable on the web.
iAd Workbench makes it simple to create and manage mobile ad campaigns that reach the right audience for your apps, products or brands. Discover how features such as new creative executions, enhanced targeting and pricing capabilities and access via API's make iAd Workbench more effective and easy to work with. Learn how app download attribution and custom audience segments can provide insights into your audience, deliver customized messages and realize long term value.
iOS 8 introduces two frameworks for managing the photo library and enhancing editing in photo, video, and camera apps. Get introduced to the Photos Framework and see how it enables you to build first-class photo browsing and editing apps. Learn about photo editing extensions with the PhotosUI framework and see how to include your own editing features into the built-in Photos app.
Web Inspector, the powerful debugging tool in WebKit, is now available to JavaScriptCore-based apps. Find out how to leverage Web Inspector in your WebKit- and JavaScriptCore-based apps on iOS and OS X. Gain an overview of what's new in the JavaScript language and how to use modern JavaScript in your apps.
Discover how to use AV Foundation and Video Toolbox to access hardware accelerated encoding and decoding services. Gain best practices for when it is appropriate to use a high-level or low-level API for encoding or decoding. Learn about multi-pass export for improved H.264 encoding and see how to use it in your app.
Core Image lets you create amazing effects in your camera and image editing apps. Learn about the advances in Core Image for iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. Get introduced to writing custom image processing filters for iOS and see how they can be used in Photos extensions. Walk through the enhancements for working with large images, and get details about the newest filters and detectors.
Dive deeper into creating your own custom Core Image filters for iOS. Learn about writing filter kernels and get details about the Core Image kernel language. See how to use custom filters in your apps or make them available to other apps via extensions.
The increasing complexity of modern web applications brings increased challenges to ensuring your web app is usable by everyone. Discover how accessibility benefits everyone, and why it's worth the effort. Learn advanced tips and techniques, and discover new developer tools for increasing productivity and avoiding common pitfalls.
As your user base grows, so will the variety of devices you'll need to support. People expect modern web sites to be fast, visually appealing, and rich functionally, regardless of a device's performance characteristics, resolution or size. Learn how to use the latest web technologies in WebKit and Safari to create engaging, attractive, and adaptive layouts across all devices.
The new Mac Pro enables you to unleash the power of dual workstation-class GPUs and multiple CPU cores in ways that just weren't possible until now. Gain a deeper understanding of the integration between OpenCL and OpenGL and see how to tap into the parallel compute and rendering power of the Mac.
Kick off the game development sessions of WWDC 2014 by gaining insight into the key ingredients needed to create a great game for iOS. Understand the importance of harnessing the full capabilities of the platform to create a richer gameplay experience. Get practical guidance about game production and distribution, and learn the design and platform conventions that will make your game even more engaging.
Metal provides extremely efficient access to the graphics and compute power of the A7 chip. Get introduced to the essential concepts behind Metal, its low-overhead architecture, streamlined API, and unified shading language. See how Metal lets you take your iOS game or app to the next level of performance and capability.
Start learning how to code with Metal in this step-by-step walkthrough of basic scene rendering. See the code you need to get your first Metal-based application up and running. Explore how to create graphics and compute shaders and efficiently animate scenes.
Building on the fundamentals, learn how to create advanced games and graphics applications with Metal. See how to construct your rendering pipeline, understand how to use compute and graphics together, and discover how to optimize your Metal-based app.
SpriteKit provides everything you need for high-performance 2D games to animate sprites, simulate physics, and create stunning graphics effects. Check out new APIs for enhanced shading and lighting, advances in physics and collisions, constraints and inverse kinematics, integration with SceneKit, and powerful editing tools built right into Xcode 6.
Gain a deeper understanding of the best practices to follow when building a SpriteKit based game. Get tips about game construction and see how to map the logical elements of your game into SpriteKit. Learn how data driven techniques can speed your development cycle, and discover how to achieve maximum performance for rendering, physics, and animation.
Now available for iOS and OS X, SceneKit is an inventive high-level graphics framework enabling your apps to efficiently load, manipulate, and render 3D scenes. Get reintroduced to SceneKit and check out how your apps can take advantage of its latest capabilities. Learn about advanced capabilities for physics and animation, support for subdivision surfaces, new rendering effects, integration with SpriteKit, and much more.
Dive into the practical workflow of developing a 3D side-scrolling game using SceneKit. See how to get started, and learn about tools for managing game assets, creating particle systems, and editing nodes. Understand how SceneKit integrates with your art pipeline and learn how to implement lighting, shadows, and other visual effects. Come away from the session with a demo game in-hand and ready to play.
The Game Controller framework enables games to integrate with MFi game controllers and take advantage of exciting new modes of input. Check out the latest additions and get expert advice about best practices to follow when adding game controller support to your titles. Understand how to avoid common pitfalls and gain key insights into what it takes to create an experience that's intuitive and fun.
Core Motion leverages the M7 motion coprocessor and other built-in sensors to provide support for step counting and motion tracking. See examples of Core Motion based apps in action. Learn how health and fitness apps use pedometer information to give users performance and workout results, and how journaling apps use motion classification to tag the day's activities.
Learn how to create app-enabled accessories. Understand your options for designing accessories that connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or the Lightning connector. Learn how to develop accessories that work with HealthKit and HomeKit.
Learn about the latest developments in managing Apple devices in an enterprise environment. Learn how MDM can be used to wirelessly configure settings, monitor compliance with policies, install apps, and remotely wipe devices, and how these capabilities can be integrated with in-house or third-party server solutions.
The Accelerate framework has always provided fast, energy efficient signal and image processing and linear algebra libraries. Learn about new interfaces that are easier to adopt and give you the same speed, and about new primitives that make it easier to write your own vector code for iOS and OS X.
Learn about data security, enterprise authentication, integration with back-end systems, app configuration methods, and the latest technologies for interacting with documents, accessories, and more. Get helpful tips for constructing your apps to meet the needs of schools and educators, as well as key requirement from IT. Perfect for everyone looking to get their apps in the hands of business professionals, educators, and students worldwide
Learn how to provision and deploy apps across your enterprise. Leverage key Apple programs such as the Volume Purchase Program and the iOS Developer Enterprise Program to get the right apps in the hands of your employees, contractors, and partners. Learn how to manage certificates and provisioning profiles to deploy your apps, and take advantage of mobile device management (MDM) tools to provide a seamless experience for your users. Gain insight into the complete app management lifecycle; from signing your in-house apps in Xcode, to distributing, managing, and revoking apps across your workforce.
Find out how your app can use new functionality in Core Location to do automatic check-in or journal the user's location. Learn how location authorization is changing to give the user more precise control of what location services an App is authorized is use, and what this means for developers and users.
The NSURLSession class provides powerful HTTP networking features in iOS and OS X. Learn about new NSURLSession capabilities and hear expert advice on practical, efficient and high performance networking for your apps.
iOS 8 makes it possible for an iOS app to determine its precise indoor position in supported venues. Learn best practices on how your app can take advantage of indoor positioning. Discover how indoor positioning and iBeacon complement each other, and understand the best use cases for both technologies. As a venue, find out how you can get involved and signup to enable indoor positioning.
Multipeer Connectivity comes to OS X. You can now discover and communicate with nearby devices on OS X and iOS. See what is new. Learn about best practices and advanced topics, such as writing cross platform code, customizing discovery and handling certificates.
People expect long battery life on both their iOS devices and Mac laptops and your apps play a vital role in ensuring long battery life. Get an overview of energy efficiency best practices and learn about new APIs in iOS and OS X that help you to minimize the energy impact of your code.
The Keychain has always been the most secure place to store passwords and other sensitive data. iOS 8 introduces significant new security features. Discover how to integrate Touch ID into your apps using the Keychain and the new LocalAuthentication framework. Learn about other Keychain enhancements, including how to tie data to the user's passcode.
Go in-depth into specific API and design patterns you can use to avoid consuming excessive energy as well as tools that can help you diagnose issues.
Local and push notifications let background or inactive apps notify users that an event of interest has occurred, or that an app has new information for them. See how to configure interactive notifications to let users act on notifications from banners, alerts, in notification center and on the lock screen. Learn how to trigger notifications using geofences and iBeacons, and discover the new API's for registering for user notifications and remote pushes.
Finding and diagnosing application bugs can be very difficult. Activity Tracing is a new technology that can dramatically improve your speed and efficiency finding bugs in your code. Log trace messages to an auto-generated ring buffer while associating them with the originating user action. Reduce the time sifting through unrelated log messages trying to understand what was going on when the failure happened.
Learn about new iOS and OS X privacy features and get details on new and updated APIs. Hear best practices for delivering great features and respecting your customers' privacy.
Learn about new features in GCD and XPC that help you write responsive energy-efficient apps and diagnose their interactions with the system.
With Student Accounts and Family Sharing, kids under age 13 can now have fully-featured accounts for buying apps and In-App Purchases. However, regulations in the US and other countries limit what information you can collect from kids without parental permission. Learn about the new account programs, whether and how to check the age of your app's user, what you can and can't do without parental permission, and how to request parental consent if you need to.
AirPrint is widely supported by all the well-known printer companies. Learn how quick and easy it is to support AirPrint in your app. Discover what's new and improved in the iOS printing system.
WWDC 2015 Keynote
WWDC 2015 Platforms State of the Union
Join us for an unforgettable award ceremony celebrating developers and their outstanding work. The 2015 Apple Design Awards recognize state of the art iOS, OS X, and Apple Watch apps that reflect excellence in design and innovation.
Xcode is the development environment for creating great apps for Apple's platforms. Start the week by watching the Xcode team demonstrate the latest features and improved workflows in Xcode 7. This session also provides a complete overview of the in-depth developer tools topics covered at WWDC 2015.
WatchKit for watchOS 2 introduces many new capabilities for creating responsive Watch experiences. Beyond a faster architecture, learn about all new support for the Digital Crown, fluid animations, and media playback and recording. Find out how to make use of accelerometer and heart rate data, as well as providing physical feedback via the Taptic Engine.
Swift continues its rapid advancement with version 2. New optimizations make your app run even faster, and new syntax makes your code more expressive. Learn about powerful new features like error handling, testability, and availability checking. This session will help you write even better apps by moving to Swift 2.
iOS 9 expands on adaptivity with Multitasking. Learn about additions to UIKit to support truly universal layout sizes and types. Get introduced to all-new frameworks and APIs for Cocoa Touch such as a new Contacts framework, text-editing gestures, enhancements to dynamics and visual effects, and much more. Come find out which sessions you won't want to miss throughout the week.
Building Watch apps with Xcode 7 is easy and straight-forward. Learn how to build and debug a Watch app for watchOS 2 from the ground up. Walk through adding a Watch app to an existing application, building the user interface, debugging and profiling with Instruments, and discover how to efficiently communicate between iPhone and Apple Watch.
When Debbie Sterling heard from Steve Jobs at her Stanford graduation that she should "never settle" until she found her true passion, she took this to heart. After graduating from Stanford with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Product Design, she had firsthand knowledge of how significantly men outnumber women in science, technology, engineering and math. Debbie then became obsessed with the notion of "disrupting the pink aisle" with a toy that would introduce girls to the joy of engineering at a young age. Industry leaders told her the idea would fail, but less than three years after launching GoldieBlox on Kickstarter, she has made significant strides in her quest to bridge the gender gap in STEM: she has launched massively successful viral videos, a Superbowl ad that brought mainstream awareness to her mission, an award-winning iOS app and GoldieBlox presence in more than 6,000 retail stores worldwide. Debbie has also recently been selected to join the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship, a select group 'committed to helping develop the next generation of entrepreneurs around the world.' Hear Debbie's story of challenging the status quo, achieving audacious goals, and igniting a national conversation about breaking gender stereotypes.
iOS has transformed the lives of many users with a range of physical and learning disabilities. Learn how to create apps that leverage the power and simplicity of Apple's assistive technologies to make them accessible to the broadest audience possible. Hear about the latest advancements in iOS accessibility and how you can take advantage of them today.
Cocoa is a powerful set of frameworks on which OS X is built. Gain an overview of the advances in AppKit, Foundation, and related frameworks. Find out what technologies you need to focus on and what techniques you should adopt to develop state of the art apps for OS X. Start here for a high level view of what's changed, and get pointers to relevant sessions for more depth.
HealthKit is Apple's framework to centralize the data storage of personal health information. Hear about the latest enhancements to the framework, supporting new types of data, efficiently deleting objects, and integrating HealthKit into your Apple Watch app.
Building on the strong accessibility support in iOS, Apple Watch offers assistive features like VoiceOver and Zoom. Gain insights into how these accessibility features work on Apple Watch, and how to make sure your app can be accessible to all users.
iOS 9 on iPad introduces the ability to view and interact with more than one app at a time. Discover how to update your code to take advantage of enhancements to multitasking and how to participate in Slide Over and Split View. Learn specifics about how to architect your app and understand best practices for adapting to a dynamically sized interface.
See what's new in MapKit. Learn about improvements to existing APIs and new ways of incorporating transit ETAs and Flyover map views in your app.
watchOS 2 provides a new architecture that runs your WatchKit extension directly on Apple Watch. Take an in-depth look at how this new architecture works. Learn how to migrate existing WatchKit apps to watchOS 2, how to support both versions of watchOS, and hear about updates to Glances and Notifications.
Move beyond architecture changes for Watch apps and explore the different ways you can use the Digital Crown to enhance your apps. Find out how to create persistent app experiences to keep your Watch app at the ready for users and learn how to use the playback and recording APIs to add audio and video to your Watch apps.
Making your app's information available to users on Apple Watch is even easier in watchOS 2. Learn how to create custom complications for Watch faces using the new ClockKit framework and see how to provide data through numerous templates using text and images.
HomeKit is Apple's framework that enables apps to easily and securely interact with HomeKit enabled accessories such as lights, locks, thermostats and more. Learn about the improvements to HomeKit, including support for new accessory types, easy ways to setup and remotely manage accessories.
iOS 9 on iPad introduces the ability to view and interact with more than one app at a time. Learn advanced techniques for efficiently sharing resources and presenting media while other apps are in the foreground. Tap into the potential of Picture in Picture to allow your video content to play above other apps, and explore multitasking best practices for creating great experiences in this environment.
Multitasking in iOS 9 allows two side-by-side apps and the Picture-in-Picture window to simultaneously run onscreen at the same time. Discover essential techniques for designing efficient, responsive apps to give your users a fluid, immersive experience with Slide Over, Split View, and Picture-in-Picture.
ResearchKit is an open source framework introduced by Apple that allows researchers and developers to create powerful apps for medical research. Learn how to easily create visual consent flows, real-time dynamic active tasks, and surveys using a variety of customizable modules that you can build upon and share with the community.
iOS 9 introduces On Demand Resources, enabling the efficient delivery of rich games and full featured applications using dynamically loaded content. Significantly reduce the time between purchasing and running an app from the App Store, while also decreasing the required storage space by downloading and retaining only content that is necessary. Dive into the latest enhancements in app packaging and learn the APIs to allow your app to acquire only its essential resources.
Storyboards are a great way to build the user interface and flow of your application on iOS and OS X. Gain an understanding of how to effectively organize your storyboards, define segues for your interface, and easily unwind transitions. Dive into a detailed discussion of the new APIs, and hear tips on how to create great user interfaces.
Advanced layouts and animations are essential to your app's interface. Gain insights into group layout mechanics and the new element animation APIs introduced in WatchKit for watchOS 2. Understand how to create layouts that work well with animations and learn other techniques to add liveliness to your apps.
The new Force Touch trackpad adds a whole new dimension to user interactions. OS X 10.11 introduces system controls that support pressure behaviors. Understand how to integrate with these behaviors and support them in custom controls. See how to use the Taptic Engine to provide subtle physical feedback based on trackpad input. Hear best practices for adopting new swiping gestures.
Auto Layout is a powerful constraint-based layout engine that can drive complex and dynamic interfaces on both iOS and OS X. Learn about the new UIStackView, now your first stop for interfaces built with Auto Layout. See how to build self-sizing views using Auto Layout, and gain critical insights into the inner workings of Auto Layout.
Continue your pursuit of Auto Layout mastery. Gain high level insight into how Auto Layout works, and strategies for debugging layout issues. Learn how to use new APIs for constraint creation and layout guides to build more complex layouts.
Learn about the latest enhancements to the Core Data framework. Hear how to efficiently delete objects, ensure uniqueness, and easily migrate your persistent stores to new locations.
Full screen windows enable people to focus on the task at hand by removing extra system UI and deferring to more of the content they care about. OS X 10.11 adds new flexibility to how these full screen windows can be configured and controlled. Hear from the experts how to get your Mac app ready to take advantage of this new functionality. Learn key strategies to making your window content be adaptive depending on the space available.
iOS 9 brings complete right-to-left support for Arabic, Hebrew, and other languages. Going beyond basic text, your app's entire interface can now flip to provide a native right-to-left experience. Learn what behavior you get for free from UIKit, and hear details about adding right-to-left support in custom interfaces. Hear from experts about how to evaluate the readiness of your app for these languages. Understand best practices to avoid common pitfalls and to create a seamless bi-directional app.
Whether it's getting contact information, managing a social graph, or adding a new friend, Contacts are a critical piece of many apps. OS X El Capitan and iOS 9 now share a new Contacts API. Understand the design, goals, and benefits of this new framework. Gain critical insights into how to make a smooth transition for your app to this new framework.
App extensions allow powerful ways to expose your application's abilities throughout iOS and other apps. Discover best practices for various extension types and see how to effectively communicate between your extension and its parent application or the network. Learn techniques for using the shared keychain and see how to improve discovery of your share and action extensions.
NSCollectionView has been displaying grids of views for many years. OS X 10.11 brings a major update to the capabilities of NSCollectionView. Much of the design of UICollectionView in iOS is now available for OS X apps. Understand the details of the enhancements and how you can harness them in your apps.
Operations are a flexible way to model your app's business logic, but they can do so much more. See how NSOperation forms the heart of the WWDC app, and how using features like dependencies, readiness, and composition allow you to quickly and easily build dynamic and complex apps.
With the majority of Apple's market outside of the US, it's critical to learn about the latest advancements in Internationalization support to make your app truly localized. Gain insight into best practices for using formatters to display information correctly, how to easily handle pluralization in any language, how to avoid the most common localization pitfalls, and much more. Whether you are looking to significantly expand your market or want to take advantage of powerful new features for all languages, you don't want to miss this session.
Apple Watch apps should load quickly and be responsive to users. Learn tips and tricks for optimizing your existing apps and gain insights specific to communicating between Apple Watch and iPhone, creating responsive layouts, decreasing loading times, and more.
Dynamic interfaces create fluid and rich interactions. Hear about new dynamic behaviors that have been added in UIKit and how to take advantage of them in your applications. Gain a practical understanding of how to integrate dynamics with AutoLayout. Learn about enhancements to UI Kit Visual Effects.
Great performance is a prerequisite for delivering a compelling and immersive app experience that keeps users engaged. Learn best practices and strategies for characterizing and improving the performance of your code for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
Small improvements can make a big impact on your iOS app's performance and launch time. Learn best practices to optimize your UIKit-based applications. See how to future-proof your app for what may be next, and walk through numerous real world examples for more responsive and dynamic collection and table views.
NSProgress lets you easily and accurately report the progress of work in your app. Understand the concepts behind progress reporting and how to design code that accurately and efficiently reports its progress. Gain specific insights on how to receive progress updates from framework APIs, fold that into your own progress reporting, and show that progress in your app. Hear from the experts about best practices and how to master the NSProgress APIs.
Learn about the touch input and drawing pipelines. Gain specific insights in how best to design your app to minimize latency in receiving touches and maximizing the performance of drawing content on the screen. Explore new API in UIKit and learn best practices for faster and smoother input.
UIDocument is a robust way to model user-generated content in your app. See how to easily integrate your app's documents with iCloud, file extensions, and document browsers. Learn how to build a document-based app from the ground up.
Learn about the latest developments in managing Apple devices in large organizations. Learn the latest techniques to wirelessly configure settings, monitor compliance with policies, install apps and bulk configure devices with ease.
iTunes Connect is the gateway to sharing your creativity on the App Store. Learn about new opportunities to get your products out on Apple Watch. See how the latest improvements to TestFlight as well as other new upcoming features on the iTunes Connect, will help you make the most of Apple's digital storefront.
App Analytics is the powerful new tool inside iTunes Connect. Get a walk through of the metrics related to user engagement, marketing campaigns, monetization and more. Gain valuable insights from data that only Apple provides, so you can build better iOS apps and a more informed app business.
Get more acquainted with iTunes Connect, your gateway to the App Store. Dive into unique services like TestFlight for beta testing and Transporter to help automate metadata setup for your apps. Discover the power of adding rich media to your app store page, the benefits of broadening your distribution path globally, and the abundance of help resources.
Automation is the life blood of any organization, providing speed, accuracy, and the ability to efficiently scale in-house processes. See how the automation technologies in OS X can easily and quickly configure shared-use iOS devices, generate, update, and distribute company documents and provide reliable desktop solutions for the back-office. With tools like Automator, AppleScript, and the new JavaScript for Automation (JXA), creating problem-solving solutions has become even easier and even more interesting.
Discover new features that make it easier than ever to craft Objective-C APIs that work beautifully in Swift, as well as new Swift language features that provide even better interoperability. Apple engineers will also discuss enhancements to Apple's SDKs that improve the Swift experience.
Enhancements to LLDB simplify life for Swift and Objective-C developers alike. Experienced developers will find new powers within the debugging console, and learn more about the connection between the debugger and Swift REPL. Newcomers will get insight into the range of possibilities hidden behind the LLDB prompt.
See how you can incrementally add Swift into your existing Objective-C codebase and app development workflow. Learn how to leverage Swift's powerful language features to develop robust applications that are faster to write and easier to maintain.
The app distribution pipeline is becoming more powerful and flexible. Learn to create full featured apps that are delivered to users devices with new App Thinning features such as slicing and ODR. See how to integrate these new features into your continuous integration and testing processes, and discover workflows for creating on-demand, tailored content.
Learn about the new features in Xcode playgrounds such as inline results, auxiliary sources and resources, multiple pages, and markup for formatted text. Find out how to explore programming problems in a playground, and create engaging experiences for teaching and learning.
Xcode 7 introduces new UI testing features fully integrated into the IDE. Learn about the new APIs and how UI testing fits in with existing testing features in Xcode. See how to get started by recording your app, and how to efficiently craft and maintain UI tests.
Apps that stand out must be attractive, intuitive, and easy to use. Interface Builder experts will give you the skills to turn your idea into a world class app. Learn to use the new stacks feature, create adaptable interfaces, employ asset catalogs, and design custom UI to build an outstanding app for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
At the heart of Swift's design are two incredibly powerful ideas: protocol-oriented programming and first class value semantics. Each of these concepts benefit predictability, performance, and productivity, but together they can change the way we think about programming. Find out how you can apply these ideas to improve the code you write.
Hear from the experts about how you can write faster Swift code and use Instruments to identify performance bottlenecks. Dive deep into specific techniques that will help you produce the most efficient code possible.
Xcode 7 includes new code coverage features to help you design a powerful test harness for your app. Learn all about coverage along with integration and improvements with Xcode Server.
Learn how Swift can help you define away some common pitfalls in app development, allowing your apps to benefit from safer runtime behavior while enjoying strong guarantees provided by Swift at compile-time. Hear about how API availability checking in Swift allows you to easily take advantage of new APIs while guaranteeing safe deployment to earlier OS releases. See how enumerations and protocols can help not only maintain compile-time invariants between your app's code and assets but also reduce boilerplate.
Learn about time profiling down to the disassembly level to help you investigate the minute details of your application that affect its performance and responsiveness.
Discover UI debugging and how to use advanced breakpoint actions to quickly explore and fix your app. Learn how the new Address Sanitizer feature finds buffer overflows, use-after-free errors, and other memory corruption bugs at run time.
Swift supports rich first-class value types in the form of powerful structs, which provide new ways to architect your apps. Learn about the differences between reference and value types, how value types help you elegantly solve common problems around mutability and thread safety, and discover how Swift's unique capabilities might change the way you think about abstraction.
See how you can incrementally add Swift into your existing Objective-C codebase and app development workflow. Learn how to leverage Swift's powerful language features to develop robust applications that are faster to write and easier to maintain.
At the heart of Swift's design are two incredibly powerful ideas: protocol-oriented programming and first class value semantics. Each of these concepts benefit predictability, performance, and productivity, but together they can change the way we think about programming. Find out how you can apply these ideas to improve the code you write.
Learn about exciting new features in WebKit and Safari that will help you make your content feel alive. See compelling new interactions made possible by the Force Touch trackpad and enhanced scrolling support. Expand your design toolkit with high performance filters for stunning image and backdrop effects, and embrace the connected living room with updated AirPlay support.
FairPlay streaming provides industrial-grade protection for audio and video content. Learn how to implement and deploy FairPlay streaming to protect content when using HTTP Live Streaming.
iAd is Apple's advertising platform, designed to enable developers to monetize and promote their apps in over 100 countries. See how iAd technologies built into iOS make it easy to enable advertising to generate revenue, identify user segments for re-engagement and understand the impact of your marketing campaigns. Learn how to promote your app to new users and create targeted campaigns designed to re-engage those you already have.
The new SFSafariViewController class enables you to deliver interactive web content in your app just like Safari, including the key Safari UI elements already familiar to your users. See how to easily bring Safari features like Reader and AutoFill into your app, and provide a great web viewing experience with fewer lines of code.
Safari has a powerful new interface for designing responsive web experiences. Explore this great new feature and other new capabilities and improvements to the Web Inspector—WebKit's built-in development tool. Discover how you can use Safari and Web Inspector to powerfully and efficiently design, debug, and optimize for the web.
Learn how to use the new AVMutableMovie class to modify media files and simplify your editing workflows. See how to support segment-based editing and discover the power of sample reference movies.
See what's new in Core Audio. Learn about enhancements to AVAudioEngine such as Compressed audio format support, more flexible node connections and new Sequencer functionality. Learn how to take advantage of digital audio between your OS X and iOS devices via Lightning. Learn best practices and what's new in AVAudioSession.
Learn about using Audio Unit Extensions to provide your App with sophisticated audio manipulation and processing capabilities. Explore the architecture and fundamentals of an App that uses Audio Unit Extensions, and how your app can benefit from their power.
Learn how to increase app engagement by using universal links to lead users directly to your App when they tap links to your website. Discover how Smart App Banners and Shared Web Credentials give your users the most integrated mobile experience possible.
The newly-unified architecture of Core Image gives iOS and OS X apps access to even more image processing power. Learn about new CIFilters and enhancements to the CIKernel language. See how to use Core Image with AV Foundation and Metal to expand the capabilities of your app.
Safari in iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan delivers new ways for your app to extend Safari's behavior. Learn how to create Shared Links and Content Blocking extensions for iOS and OS X, and about changes to the Safari Extension development process.
Model I/O provides a seamless infrastructure for accessing and managing 3D models. Its high-performance architecture supports reading and writing popular mesh and model formats, textures, and materials. Get introduced to the Model I/O framework and learn key details about its integration with SceneKit, MetalKit, and GLKit.
Metal provides extremely efficient access to the GPU through its streamlined API and high-performance architecture. Check out what's new in Metal and dive into support for Metal on OS X. Understand enhancements to the Metal memory model and learn how to prepare assets for delivery in Metal-based apps and games.
SpriteKit provides everything you'll need to build 2D games with high-performance graphics and engaging gameplay. Check out new APIs for managing a virtual camera and delivering spatial audio. See the all-new timeline-based Actions editor built right into Xcode, and learn about deep integration with Metal, SceneKit, GameplayKit, and more.
ReplayKit provides an easy-to-use framework that lets players record their gameplay — amazing plays, great victories, or solutions to tough challenges — and share video with other players and viewers online. Get introduced to the ReplayKit framework and see how to enable its capability for sharing game video and audio in your games and other apps. Then get the latest news about Game Center, Apple's social gaming network. Learn about the new model for pre-release testing with Game Center and enhancements for multiplayer games.
SceneKit is a high-level graphics framework that helps you create 3D animated scenes and effects in your apps. See how to take advantage of the new capabilities and performance gains enabled by SceneKit's new Metal-based renderer. Check out the innovative Scene Editor, enabling you to build game levels and other scenes directly within Xcode. Learn about new features for realistic shading, enhancements for physics, and dynamic spatial audio.
Your app can be ready to harness the power of Metal starting with just a few lines of code. Get introduced to the new MetalKit framework and learn its simple API for model and texture loading, animation control, and other common tasks. Plug into Metal Performance Shaders and access a powerful library of image-processing operations tuned for Apple hardware.
GameplayKit provides a collection of essential tools and techniques used to implement gameplay logic. Get introduced to the GameplayKit framework and see how to put its capabilities to work in your own titles. Learn about managing state machines, controlling game entities, and implementing rule systems. Dive into its built-in tools for randomization, pathfinding, and advanced simulation.
Dive into the tools and technologies used to construct the DemoBots developer sample. Gain a practical understanding of how DemoBots implements its gameplay logic with GameplayKit and visuals using SpriteKit. See how the sample integrates On Demand Resources and other system services.
Learn best practices to maximize the efficiency of your Metal based apps and attain high frame rates. Gain insight into powerful tools for analyzing and optimizing performance for both the CPU and GPU. Discover how to identify bottlenecks, tune performance hot-spots, and overcome any hurdles that could keep your app from reaching its potential.
Passbook is now Wallet. Wallet stores your coupons, boarding passes, event tickets, and even the credit and debit cards you use with Apple Pay. In iOS 9, Wallet makes the Apple Pay experience even better and integrates more with Apple Watch. Learn about the Wallet app, new kinds of passes, and how your app can integrate and interact with Wallet.
Apple Pay is the easy, secure, and private way to pay for physical goods and services within apps on iPhone 6, iPad Air 2, and iPad mini 3. Find out how you can increase conversion rates in your checkout experience by integrating with Apple Pay APIs. And learn more about what's new with Apple Pay within apps in iOS 9.
Learn about new developments in Privacy in iOS, OS X, and watchOS that impact your apps. Hear about best practices for delivering great features and respecting your customers' privacy.
CloudKit is the framework that powers iCloud on iOS, OS X, and now iCloud on the web. Hear how we've been working to make CloudKit more accessible to all your users with the web services API and Javascript library. Learn about reporting available in the updated Dashboard and the new, more flexible public database storage pricing.
See what's new in Core Motion. Learn how your application can take advantage of the motion sensors on iOS devices. Walk through new features of the pedometer and learn how to use the altimeter to take your app to the next level. Get personal with motion APIs and sensor data on the Apple Watch. Run through a demo that uses motion-context awareness to make an application feel smarter!
Your reputation depends on protecting your users' data. Do this by taking advantage of the Security frameworks built into iOS, OS X and watchOS. Find out about new developments in Security and learn the best practices to develop secure apps and protect your users' data.
Learn why efficient software is the key to long battery life for both OS X and iOS devices. We'll explore where the energy in our batteries goes, how Apple hardware and software efficiently manage energy, and how you can make your code most efficient to ensure long battery life.
Learn how to debug energy issues in your app. See the energy debugging tools on iOS and walk through debugging common energy issues in a sample app.
Making your app more discoverable leads to more downloads and generates revenue. iOS 9 adds a variety of ways to surface the rich content in your app making search results more relevant. Understand how you can enhance search results with App History and CoreSpotlight. See how small changes on your website can produce better Safari suggestions. Gain insights into how deep app links can bring people directly where they want to go in your app, making your app's content even more discoverable and searchable than content on the traditional web.
CloudKit.js is the new library that provides web access to your app data stored in iCloud. Explore the new web service APIs and learn how to extend your iOS or OS X apps to the web using CloudKit.
Learn about App Transport Security, HTTP/2 protocol support, new NSURLSession API, and best practices for networking in apps, extensions, and WatchKit apps.
The Accelerate framework gives you fast, energy efficient signal and image processing and linear algebra libraries. Learn about a new library, dedicated to high performance compression. simd.h, introduced in iOS 8 and OS X 10.10, is the unified 2d and 3d math library for graphics and games. Find out how you can use simd.h and what's new in iOS 9 and OS X 10.11.
Getting information to your Watch app is crucial. Learn how to leverage NSURLSession to get your data from the Internet. Tap into the new WatchConnectivity framework for device to device communication and transferring of data. See real-world examples and learn best practices to understand when to use your WatchKit extension and when to leverage your iPhone app.
Learn what's new in Core Location. Discover how to use Core Location with Apple Watch, and how to make the best use of location services to develop powerful and compelling apps.
CloudKit makes it easy to store and retrieve any kind of data from iCloud. Dive into the API with the CloudKit framework team as they explore some of its lesser-known features, explore best practices around subscriptions and queries, and reveal its hidden gems.
The Network Extension framework allows apps to customize and extend the core networking features of iOS and OS X. Learn how to use new VPN features and NetworkExtension API to create network security solutions for education and enterprise.
watchOS and iOS Multitasking place increased demands on your application's efficiency and responsiveness. With expert guidance from the GCD team, learn about threads, queues, runloops and best practices for their use in a modern app. Take a deep dive into QoS, its propagation and advanced techniques for debugging your GCD-enabled app.
IPv6 is growing exponentially and carriers worldwide are moving to pure IPv6 APNs. Learn about new tools to test your apps for compatibility and get expert advice on making sure your apps work in all network environments. iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 now support the latest TCP standards. Hear from the experts on TCP Fast Open and Explicit Congestion Notification, and find out how it benefits your apps.
Remote notifications are sent by your server to the Apple Push Notification service, which pushes the notifications to each device. Your app may take different actions, such as displaying a message to the user or downloading new data. Find out about important changes to the provider protocol. Learn about enhancements to the way your app can respond to notifications.
Design for tomorrow's products today. See examples of how Apple and partners designed software for Apple Watch and other products before they even existed. Learn techniques for designing and prototyping so you can create great apps for hardware accessories and new products before they are available.
Apple Watch represents a new chapter in the way people relate to technology. It's the most personal device Apple has ever designed, and it enables new ways to receive information and to interact with apps. Learn about the foundations on which Apple Watch was designed and how they lead to Apple Watch apps that complement the iPhone, support lightweight interaction and deliver timely and relevant information to the wrist. Discover how to create usable and beautiful apps, notifications and glances through effective use of typography, information design, layout, animation, and color.
Animation is a powerful tool for creating a delightful and intuitive app experience. We will show you how to get started with animations, how to make them effective for your user interface, and how to save time coding by building animations into interactive prototypes.
Fonts lay at the intersection of design and engineering. Get introduced to typographic principles and how they apply to the San Francisco fonts. Hear what makes this family of fonts unique and how to effectively take advantage of their advanced features. Learn best practices when designing and implementing interfaces with text.
Get essential design guidance for creating Apple Watch apps that support quick and efficient interaction, make accessing features and information more convenient, and compliment their companion iOS apps. Learn key tips about information architecture, layout, typography, color and app icon design that will make your app easy to use, beautiful and delightful.
WWDC 2016 Keynote
White House Champion of Change, Forbes 30 under 30 leader, and BBC Women of Africa Hero, Haben Girma is an acclaimed accessibility and inclusion advocate. The first deaf blind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben champions equal access to information for people with disabilities, earning her recognition from both President Obama and President Clinton. Through this presentation, Haben will share how designing with accessibility in mind benefits not just users with disabilities, but developers, too. Throughout history, disability has sparked innovation, leading to breakthroughs in wide-ranging inventions from keyboards to telephones. Hear Haben's remarkable story and learn how incorporating universal access principles into product development can increase access for people with disabilities while simultaneously improving the overall usability of your app.
Wildlife populations across the globe face innumerable threats that have resulted in dwindling numbers of many species. Ginette Hemley, SVP of Wildlife Conservation at World Wildlife Fund, will take us through many of the bold new approaches to conservation that organizations like WWF are taking to tackle these challenges. One of the most promising and potentially game-changing ideas for solving conservation problems around the world is by applying technology in creative new ways. From examining polar bear DNA to utilizing devices such as thermal imaging cameras and gunshot detectors to drawing upon the power of social networks and apps, learn about the surprising ways that WWF and its partners are harnessing the power of technology to keep up with the planet's most urgent wildlife conservation challenges.
When Ajit Narayanan began working on technologies for children with disabilities in India in 2008, it was the beginning of an incredible journey down a rabbit hole — one that took him and his team on a wild ride across the worlds of electrical engineering, autism, cross-cultural communication and the mathematics of language. His journey led him to build Avaz, a wheelchair-mounted tablet to help people with disabilities communicate, then even more ambitiously, to invent FreeSpeech, an entirely new visual language that could break down language barriers altogether. Ajit will talk about the series of events that led to the creation of the Avaz and FreeSpeech apps, their impact in India and around the world (earning him the National Award for Empowerment of People with Disabilities from the President of India) and his ideas on the transformative role that apps can play in education.
The heroes and villains of Marvel have captivated a worldwide audience for over 75 years. Marvel Games Creative Director Bill Rosemann lifts up the masks of Spider-Man, Black Panther, the Guardians of the Galaxy and more to reveal the true power behind the world's most heroic brand.
WWDC 2017 Platforms State of the Union
Dr. Christine Darden started her career in 1967 at NASA's Langley Research Center as one of a pool of African-American female mathematicians whose talent earned them the nickname of ‘human computers'. Demonstrating strong skills, initiative and perseverance throughout 40 years at NASA, Christine's accomplishments include becoming one of the first female aerospace engineers, achieving groundbreaking work on sonic boom minimization, and becoming the first African-American woman in senior management at NASA Langley. Hear the remarkable story of one of the pioneering mathematicians upon which the book 'Hidden Figures' was based.
Why design apps with accessibility? Meet Todd Stabelfeldt, founder of C4 Consulting, who has lived with quadriplegia since the age of 8. Over his decades-long struggle for increased independence in both his personal and professional lives, Todd has become a noted expert in technologies for persons with disabilities, which he has found can offer not only a level of autonomy but also empowerment and dignity to the mobility impaired. Leading by example, Todd runs a successful business but his real passion lies elsewhere. Hear how apps designed well with accessibility in mind have changed his life as a husband, father and as owner of the “Quadthedral“, his family's HomeKit-enabled smart home.
iOS 11 enhances the Cocoa Touch frameworks for making next generation apps on iOS. Learn about drag and drop, file management, document browser, updates to the navigation and tab bars, app safe areas, swipe actions and API refinements. Find out which sessions you won't want to miss throughout the week.
TVMLKit allows you to quickly build native tvOS apps that are backed by XML templates and JavaScript logic. Take your TVMLKit apps even further with new tvOS 11 technologies and features. Learn about Right-to-Left support, performance optimizations, significant enhancements to Web Inspector, and much more.
Drag and Drop has arrived in iOS 11! Learn the fundamentals behind the new iOS Drag and Drop — architecture and APIs. This session will go over the design goals, architecture and key components of the API to allow you to quickly adopt Drag and Drop in your App.
iOS 11 brings a bold, dynamic new style to UI elements systemwide. Learn how to adopt new features in your app, including large title bars with integrated search, landscape tab bars, and more powerful swipe actions. Find out about new patterns and enhancements that make it easier than ever to craft the perfect experience for your users.
watchOS 4 adds a new runtime architecture to make your apps run even faster on Apple Watch. Alongside performance gains, watchOS 4 brings numerous enhancements to make robust WatchKit UI layouts, new background modes for navigation and audio apps, Core Bluetooth connectivity to allow devices a direct connection to your wrist, and much more. See what's new and how you'll be able to make your Watch apps even better on watchOS 4.
Logging in to an app is a source of friction that can lead to user abandonment. Password AutoFill is a new feature in iOS 11 that makes logging in easy by putting users' passwords directly on the keyboard in your login UI. Learn how to guarantee that Password AutoFill works in your app to make logging in a frictionless experience for your users.
Join us for this annual session to learn about enhancements in Cocoa. Catch up on the latest APIs for Touch Bar, performance improvements like copy-on-write collections, new features such as document sharing, Swift improvements for key paths and archiving, and many other refinements to AppKit and Foundation APIs. Get an overview of many topics and a guide to important related sessions throughout the week.
Discover how to enhance app intelligence by using machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). Learn how to use our performant on-device NLP APIs to break text into sentences and tokens, identify people and places mentioned in the text (typed, transcribed speech/handwriting). The NLP APIs can be used standalone or as a preprocessing framework for machine-learning based text modeling tasks. The APIs are available in many languages across all Apple platforms, thereby providing homogeneous text processing for consistent user experience. Open up your imagination as we walk you through hypothetical apps that harness the power of NLP to enhance the overall app experience.
tvOS allows you to deliver incredible apps and games for the big screen with the tvOS SDK. Gain insights into new tvOS 11 capabilities and enhancements such as Right-to-Left support, image overlays, background app updates, and user interface style improvements. And with the new AVKit capabilities you can take your media playback experience even further.
Join the Core Data engineering team and learn about the new features in Core Data. See how you can easily and automatically include your data in Spotlight to allow users to find content even if it's stored in Core Data. Learn about new options for indexing your data, and hear the details on a new feature for tracking changes over time.
Touch Bar replaces the function keys that have long occupied the top of your keyboard with a versatile MultiTouch input device that features a Retina display. AppKit provides powerful APIs to let you easily leverage the power of Touch Bar in your applications. Learn how to use Touch Bar in your application to add context sensitive commands and flexible content to your user experience. This session will cover the basic concepts, design considerations, standard controls, IB support, and API that you will need to get started using Touch Bar.
Whether you're building apps for iOS, macOS, watchOS, or tvOS, a lot of the functionality you get from Apple's SDKs comes from the Foundation framework. Join the Foundation engineering team to hear about the improvements they've been working on. Learn how significant changes to key paths can help make your code safer with strong type checking in Swift. Hear all about how the new archiving API can help you safely convert your native Swift types to and from external formats like JSON. Gain insights into performance enhancements that will help make your app even more efficient.
Dive deep into the new Drag and Drop APIs in iOS 11. Learn what users will come to expect of your draggable views and how to best deal with the asynchronous nature by which data gets dropped into your app. We'll also show you how to make your Drag and Drop look great using the advanced visual appearance tweaks that we offer.
SiriKit provides a powerful and intuitive way to expose your app's functionality through Siri. Learn how to use the all-new lists and notes domain to jot down notes or complete tasks quickly. See how easy it is to display your app's visual codes for others to scan. And, using SiriKit's new intent parameters, it's easy to customize even more of the UI for your app within Siri. Explore these and numerous other new features that SiriKit brings to iOS 11.
Discover what's new in accessibility in iOS, watchOS, macOS, and tvOS. Learn how to audit an App for accessibility, and take advantage of new assistive features. Topics include how to best customize how Voice Over describes an App UI to the user, how to enhance the accessibility user experience with new features like Drag and Drop, and how to take advantage of sophisticated accessibility APIs to solve common issues.
watchOS 4 introduces numerous enhancements to the application lifecycle of an app on Apple Watch. This session will outline when your app has runtime, how much time it has, and how to maximize your opportunities to create a great experience on Apple Watch. Learn about background modes new to watchOS 4 and find out how taking snapshots with background app refresh have been simplified.
As a game developer, you may know your game like the back of your hand, but could you play it with your eyes closed? Apple devices come standard with award-winning accessibility features that let people with disabilities experience everything Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV have to offer. Media apps and games require specific considerations and approaches to allow for all people to engage fully with your content. Gain deep insights into the key approaches and technologies to make your apps seamlessly functional for a broad range of users.
AppKit offers numerous ways to easily present your data. Join our framework engineers for a guided tour of versatile standard view classes you can put to work in your own macOS apps. Hear about NSStackView, NSTableView, NSCollectionView, and other container views in AppKit. Explore the interesting features and benefits of each, and examine real-world use cases to help you choose the most suitable building blocks for your apps' user interfaces.
Touch user interactions are fundamental to the user experience on iOS. Learn how to master the power of UIKit's gesture recognizer system in your application. Find out how to integrate with the new Drag and Drop features and the system gestures. Get some great tips for debugging your custom built interactions.
WKWebView allows you to seamlessly integrate web content into your app. Learn how new features in WKWebView allow you to manage cookies, filter unwanted content, and give you more control over loading web content.
HealthKit has become the standard for apps that help you manage and track your health on iOS and watchOS. Learn about new HealthKit data types in iOS 11, how to create and access workout route data, how to avoid duplication of health data, and enhancements made in HealthKit to support people managing diabetes.
Look behind the scenes into how system applications enhance their Touch Bar content with more than the basic controls. Learn about NSScrubber, customizing the text bar, candidate list item, event handling, layout, animations, and more. Leverage the full power of the Touch Bar to take your Mac app to the next level.
Discover new APIs for UICollectionView and UITableView designed to make drag and drop easy to implement in your apps. Learn how to quickly adopt drag and drop in collection and table views, create polished animations, and adopt new features to keep your app fluid and responsive during asynchronous data transfers.
Focus interaction is the primary interaction model for UIKit-based apps on tvOS. Learn about new focus animation APIs, custom sounds, support for SceneKit and SpriteKit games, and new debugging tools for your development workflows. Gain insight into how to get the most from these new technologies in your apps.
Safari View Controller brings Safari's features into your app for browsing the web and logging in with 3rd party services. Learn how to use new APIs to customize Safari View Controller's UI to fit your app's style.
The CloudKit Dashboard has been completely overhauled to aid you throughout your development lifecycle of building, testing, operating, and supporting your CloudKit-backed applications. See the new functionality, including fetching changes and modifying sharing relationships right from the Dashboard. Gain insights from real-time server logs into events across all of your users—including CloudKit push notifications—to facilitate debugging and customer support.
Drag and Drop is the front end of a simple concept: transferring data. Whether it is in app or between apps, this data transfer is backed by item providers. Learn how item providers work and how to implement your own providers to facilitate efficient data transfers from your App.
People love Siri so it's essential to use SiriKit optimally for your app to provide a great Siri experience. Learn how to solve common pitfalls related to contact resolution, using Touch ID, and more. Find out how UI tests can benefit your SiriKit extension and how they can speed up the development process by automatically giving Siri text to process.
Document based apps have never been better with the new consistent system-provided user interface for opening and creating documents. This session will go into detail of how your document based app can leverage this functionality to provide a great user experience. See how to customize the UI so it fits perfectly inside your app. Get details about making your documents look their best with the new QuickLook APIs for generating thumbnails and for showing custom previews of your own files formats.
So much power has been added to animations on iOS since their inception that it's time to think about animations in a whole new way! Learn to combine and coordinate between multiple animations, resulting in interactive transitions and learn some tips and tricks along the way.
Fundamental to the iOS Search Experience, Core Spotlight is now available on macOS. Using the same APIs that are available for iOS, Core Spotlight lets you index your app's contents without requiring on-disk files. Learn how to provide rich custom Quick Look previews on both macOS and iOS so your users can see the content right in their search results. Get details about how your Core Spotlight items on iOS can participate in the new Drag and Drop feature.
Whether you're a medical researcher or a care provider, the CareKit and ResearchKit open source projects are designed to be the quickest path to delivering a customized iOS app to your candidates or patients. These frameworks are constantly gaining features and functionality from both Apple and the community. Discover the latest active-tasks, care modules, and tools designed to allow medical professionals the ability prototype their own care app.
With a completely redesigned App Store for iMessage and new App Drawer, discovering, installing, and using iMessage apps has never been easier. And now with live message views people can benefit and interact with your iMessage app directly in the transcript. Get the details on how your app can streamline the message sending experience with the new direct send functionality. Hear about important best practices like making the best use of summary text, optimizing snapshots of your iMessage app, and more in order to provide an outstanding user experience.
iOS and macOS have a wide range of graphics and animation technologies for bringing your app designs to life. Get to know the full graphics stack, from the high-level tools in UIKit and AppKit all the way down to low-level frameworks like Metal. Dive deep into Core Animation and learn the techniques used by Apple engineers to build responsive, engaging UI across the ecosystem.
Gain tips from seasoned framework engineers about how to get the most out of your Cocoa development efforts. For example, find out how you can get perfect hashing behavior from NSDictionary with a simple API. From best practices to lesser known APIs, there is something for everyone to learn.
MapKit makes it easy to embed a fully interactive and configurable map directly into your app. Lean about new capabilities to tailor the look of the map view and annotations, more manageable controls and new features that make dealing with a large number of annotations a snap.
People expect long battery life on their mobile devices, and apps play a vital role in achieving that experience. Learn strategies to conserve energy while providing the best experience for your app. Find out about the key areas that affect energy consumption of an app as well as how to best use the available APIs to optimize battery life. Master energy debugging tools to make your app more energy efficient.
The CareKit open source project provides customizable modules for delivering an app that puts a patient's care plan and adherence tracking in the palm of their hands. Connecting patient care apps to the care team is critical for monitoring adherence and providing updates is crucial. Until now, every implementation required custom integration. Learn how the new CareKit Bridge API abstracts the communication to the back end and provides a simple mechanism for plugging in your custom or third-party provided cloud connectors.
Business Chat is a powerful new way for your customers to get answers to their questions, learn about and purchase your products, and engage with your existing support channels. Integrated into Messages and discoverable through Maps, Siri, Search, as well as your own app and website, Business Chat helps you build persistent, long-lasting relationships with your customers. See how to leverage built-in features like Apple Pay or calendar integration, as well as your own iMessage app in the conversation. Understand how to get started with Business Chat Developer Preview today.
The enhanced PDFKit framework lets your app perform essential operations, such as authoring, modifying, and displaying Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Previously available only on macOS, this powerful framework is now available on iOS 11. Gain insights and best practices on how to use this technology within your own apps.
Go beyond the basics and provide a first class text input experience in your app. Learn best practices and how to expand your app by supporting text input traits and QuickType. Get tips on how to optimize your UI when incorporating the system keyboard into your layout. Discover how to create a custom keyboard and upgrade it to a system-wide keyboard extension.
File providers are front and center in the new Files app and system-provided document browser, empowering users to work on their documents in the cloud without the confusion of multiple copies or different versions. Hear details about how your cloud services can integrate with this new functionality. See how to provide an efficient and seamless user experience. If you are an app developer, learn the details about how file providers work and hear about exciting opportunities to take advantage of service-specific APIs from cloud storage providers.
Border crossings can be smooth and efficient or slow and tedious. The boundary between an app and a framework is analogous, but inefficiencies may not always be obvious. Whether it's passing data to an API or understanding how to stay on the fast path while rendering text, we'll explore various aspects of how an app can work efficiently with underlying frameworks. If you build your own frameworks, gain valuable insights into how your clients can be as efficient as possible.
With Dynamic Type, people choose their preferred text size and iOS switches fonts automatically as needed. Understand why Dynamic Type is important and how to support it when displaying text. Learn what's new in iOS 11, and master the frameworks and tools that make it easy to support Dynamic Type in your app.
Design features such as the tvOS Top Shelf and Universal Links help customers immerse themselves in your content more quickly and easily. Learn how to create seamless app launch experiences when deep linking into content of UIKit or TVMLKit apps.
Help your users share the great content in your app by using the built-in iOS sharing functionality. Learn how timing, placement and context of sharing can drive engagement and acquire new users.
Expand the reach of your apps by building them for a worldwide audience. Learn how to create localized tvOS apps that perform seamlessly regardless of country and language. Gain insights into such topics as handling server-side content, matching preferred languages, and localizing images and text direction.
Unwanted SMS and MMS messages are a persistent, frustrating nuisance. Identity Lookup is a new framework that allows you to participate in the process of filtering incoming messages. Get the details of how to identify and prevent these unsolicited messages. Understand the options for on-device detection as well as more dynamic server-based integration in order to ensure a better user experience.
Learn about deep linking and how universal links can be used to make your app's content and functionality accessible throughout iOS.
Consistent and intuitive control of media playback is key to many apps on tvOS, and proper use and configuration of MPNowPlayingInfoCenter and MPRemoteCommandCenter are critical to delivering a great user experience. Dive deeper into these frameworks and learn how to ensure a seamless experience whether your app is being controlled using Siri, the Siri Remote, or the iOS Remote app.
Redesigned from the ground up, the new App Store provides a fresh approach to marketing your app. Learn how the new functionality, enhanced editorial features, and the thinking that drove the visual changes are all designed to make your apps and in-app purchase more discoverable and appealing to your customers.
iTunes Connect has been updated to make the experience of delivering your app to the new App Store even better. Learn about new and updated meta-data requirements, capabilities to support promotion of in-app purchases and techniques for handling customer reviews. Discover how new TestFlight features and deployment options can help you test and deploy your next masterpiece.
Starting with an expert guide to implementing the In-App Purchase workflow, learn about Promoted In-App Purchases and how to use the new StoreKit APIs. Find out what's involved for your server and apps. And finally, get the details and guidance on asking for Ratings and Reviews, and responding to Reviews.
Platform features and tools make it easy to configure, deploy and manage Apple devices in organizations of all sizes. Discover new and updated configuration capabilities for each platform, updated app deployment techniques and tool changes that make low-bandwidth updates more accessible. Learn how educational institutions can use the advancements in Apple School Manager and Classroom to make configuring student devices even easier.
Gain an understanding of the pros and cons of server- versus app-based receipt validation, and how to implement this critical functionality for your In-App Purchases. Get the latest news, and valuable tips for keeping subscribers and managing subscriptions. Learn about a major improvement to In-App Purchases: Server-to-Server Notifications. And finally, get detailed instructions for testing with the In-App Purchase sandbox.
Build world-ready apps using Xcode by following some simple steps to manage strings and assets, and display your user interface. Take your localized apps even further with new technologies and features in Xcode 9. Learn how Xcode 9 helps you design, localize, and test your app in multiple languages.
Swift 4 continues the evolution of the safe, fast, and expressive language, with better performance and new features. Learn about the new String and improved generics, see how Swift 4 maintains support for your existing Swift 3 code, and get insight into where Swift is headed in the future.
Learn about new advances in Xcode's support for code signing, including more powerful distribution signing, better integration with Xcode Server, and more control for working with manual signing assets.
Xcode 9 introduces wireless development for iOS and tvOS. Discover how to configure and use wireless development with your devices. Learn about Xcode's latest debugging features — including debugging workflow enhancements, and new view debugging support for view controllers, SpriteKit and SceneKit — now with no strings attached.
Learn about the new tools in Xcode 9 for exploring the source control history of your projects. See how Xcode integrates with GitHub, and discover how the new source control navigator makes it easy to browse branches, tags, and detailed history and commit information.
Learn how to use Xcode 9 runtime tools to help find issues and bugs, ranging from missing and unintended UI updates to integer overflows and data races on collection APIs. Hear about the new Undefined Behavior Sanitizer and Main Thread Checker runtime tools in Xcode 9, and the improvements to Address and Thread Sanitizers.
Undefined behavior in programming languages can introduce difficult to diagnose bugs and even lead to security vulnerabilities in your App. Learn more about undefined behavior, the tools available in Xcode 9 that address it, and why Swift is safer by design.
Learn more about the new features in Swift Playgrounds, such as support for localized content and user-added pages. Learn how to leverage these new features to build engaging content in the latest playground book format. Harness external accessories using the new PlaygroundBluetooth framework, and take advantage of new frameworks added in iOS 11.
Xcode 9 has new APIs for structuring your test logging and including your own attachments and screenshots, as well as new support for parallel device and simulator testing. Learn how to write UI tests that target multiple applications, and find out ways to improve the performance of your UI tests.
Localizing a playground book is more than just translation. Explore best practices, potential problem areas, and the unique challenges of localizing educational content. Understand how a localized playground book is structured and hear about the lessons learned by the people who made it happen.
The Apple LLVM compiler in Xcode 9 has new language features, improved diagnostics, and more powerful optimizations. Keep up with the newest additions to Objective-C and C++, get an overview of new and improved warnings and static analyzer checks, and learn about how the LLVM compiler technology is delivering faster build times and better runtime performance for your apps.
Auto Layout enables you to easily create robust layouts for your apps. Hear details about new and existing techniques for building layouts in Interface Builder. Learn how to build more dynamic layouts and handle state changes using priorities and size classes. Find out how iOS 11 support for dynamic type and safe areas can ensure your content can be viewed by anyone.
Learn about the dyld dynamic linker used on Apple platforms, how it's changed over the years, and where it's headed next. Find out how improved tooling makes it easier to optimize your app's launch time, and see how new changes coming in dyld will bring even further launch time improvements.
Unit testing is an essential tool to consistently verify your code works correctly. Discover techniques for designing the code of your app so that it can be easily tested. Find out the best practices for developing a test suite that evolves with your app and scales as your app grows.
Teaching can be difficult and teaching programming can be even harder — it's abstract and concrete at the same time, and you must help the learner build a mental model of what code really does. Find out how the Swift Playgrounds content team works through the teaching process, from idea to finished playground. We'll cover lessons learned building the Learn to Code series, and tips and methods we've developed to streamline our current workflow. Come away with valuable teaching insights and a great head start on building your own instructional content.
Apple platforms provide a comprehensive set of audio frameworks that are essential to creating powerful audio solutions and rich app experiences. Come learn about enhancements to AVAudioEngine, support for high-order ambisonics, and new capabilities for background audio recording on watchOS. See how to take advantage of these new audio technologies and APIs in this session.
Get introduced to the new API for the Apple Music subscription service. Learn how to add Apple Music playback in your own app, and discover how to search the catalogue, manage playback queues, and engage with playlists and recommendations.
High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) are powerful new standards-based technologies for storing and delivering images and audiovisual media. Get introduced to these next generation space-saving codecs and their associated container formats. Learn how to work with them across Apple platforms and how you can take advantage of them in your own apps.
HTTP Live Streaming allows you to stream live and on-demand content to global audiences. Learn about great new features and enhancements to HTTP Live Streaming. Highlights include support for HEVC, playlist metavariables, IMSC1 subtitles, and synchronized playback of multiple streams. Discover how to simplify your FairPlay key handling with the new AVContentKeySession API, and take advantage of enhancements to offline HLS playback.
Learn all about newest APIs in Photos on iOS and macOS, providing better integration and new possibilities for your app. We'll discuss simplifications to accessing the Photos library through UIImagePickerController, explore additions to PhotoKit to support new media types, and share all the details of the new Photos Project Extensions which enable you to bring photo services to Photos for Mac.
Vision is a new, powerful, and easy-to-use framework that provides solutions to computer vision challenges through a consistent interface. Understand how to use the Vision API to detect faces, compute facial landmarks, track objects, and more. Learn how to take things even further by providing custom machine learning models for Vision tasks using CoreML.
Portrait mode on iPhone 7 Plus showcases the power of depth in photography. In iOS 11, the depth data that drives this feature is now available to your apps. Learn how to use depth to open up new possibilities for creative imaging. Gain a broader understanding of high-level depth concepts and learn how to capture both streaming and still image depth data from the camera.
When using Portrait mode, depth data is now embedded in photos captured on iPhone 7 Plus. In this second session on depth, see which key APIs allow you to leverage this data in your app. Learn how to process images that include depth and preserve the data when manipulating the image. Get inspired to add creative new effects to your app and enable your users to do amazing things with their photos.
AirPlay allows you to wirelessly stream content from your iOS device or Mac. Now with AirPlay 2, you can fill the home with multi-room audio. Learn how AirPlay 2 synchronizes playback and provides an even more reliable audio experience, and how to incorporate support for AirPlay 2 into your app.
Get all the details on how to access the latest capabilities of Core Image. Learn about new ways to efficiently render images and create custom CIKernels in the Metal Shading Language. Find out about all of the new CIFilters that include support for applying image processing to depth data and handling barcodes. See how the Vision framework can be leveraged within Core Image to do amazing things.
High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) are powerful new standards-based technologies for storing and delivering images and video. Gain insights about how to take advantage of these next generation formats and dive deeper into the APIs that allow you to fully harness them in your apps.
Podcasts reach millions of listeners around the world every year. iOS 11 upgrades the Apple Podcasts app to support new feed structures for serialized shows. Discover how to publish your own podcast and take advantage of all the features and capabilities in this comprehensive podcasting session.
Learn the essential details of the new High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) and discover which capabilities are used by Apple platforms. Gain deep insights into the container structure, the types of media and metadata it can handle, and the many other advantages that this new standard affords.
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) reliably delivers media content across a variety of network and bandwidth conditions. However, there are many factors that can impact stream delivery, such as server or encoder failures, caching issues, or network dropouts. Learn the best-practice behaviors that your servers should adopt to maximize reliability, and gain a practical understanding of the errors your app may encounter and how to handle them.
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) reliably delivers video to audiences around the world. Key to this reliability is a comprehensive set of tools to help you author, deliver, and validate the HLS streams you create. See what's new in these tools, learn the latest authoring recommendations, and how they apply to advances in HLS such as support for HEVC and IMSC1.
Metal 2 provides near-direct access to the graphics processor (GPU), enabling your apps and games to realize their full graphics and compute potential. Dive into the breakthrough features of Metal 2 that empower the GPU to take control over key aspects of the rendering pipeline. Check out how Metal 2 enables essential tasks to be specified on-the-fly by the GPU, opening up new efficiencies for advanced rendering.
ARKit provides a cutting-edge platform for developing augmented reality (AR) apps for iPhone and iPad. Get introduced to the ARKit framework and learn about harnessing its powerful capabilities for positional tracking and scene understanding. Tap into its seamless integration with SceneKit and SpriteKit, and understand how to take direct control over rendering with Metal 2.
Metal 2 provides powerful and specialized support for Virtual Reality (VR) rendering and external GPUs. Get details about adopting these emerging technologies within your Metal 2-based apps and games on macOS High Sierra. Walk through integrating Metal 2 with the SteamVR SDK and learn about efficiently rendering to a VR headset. Understand how external GPUs take macOS graphics to a whole new level and see how to prepare your apps to take advantage of their full potential.
SceneKit is a fast and fully featured high-level 3D graphics framework that enables your apps and games to create immersive scenes and effects. See the latest advances in camera control and effects for simulating real camera optics including bokeh and motion blur. Learn about surface subdivision and tessellation to create smooth-looking surfaces right on the GPU starting from a coarser mesh. Check out new integration with ARKit and workflow improvements enabled by the Xcode Scene Editor.
Discover tips and tricks gleaned by the Swift Playgrounds Content team for working more effectively with SceneKit on a visually rich app. Learn how to integrate animation, optimize rendering performance, design for accessibility, add visual polish, and understand strategies for creating an effective workflow with 3D assets.
Check out the new capabilities of ReplayKit 2 and see how to access its rich functionality right from Control Center. Learn about in-app capture, giving apps direct sample-level access to their audio and screen output. Get details about developing a live broadcast extension, and discover how apps can be coupled to a preferred broadcast provider.
Developing Metal 2-based apps is even easier with the redesigned tools for debugging and profiling in Xcode. Dive into the enhanced Metal Frame Debugger and explore techniques for fine-tuning graphics and compute workloads. Learn about accessing detailed GPU performance counters, and check out new support in Metal System Trace for optimizing VR apps.
Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) provides a highly tuned library of functions that extend the power of the GPU for more than just graphics. With Metal 2, MPS comes to the Mac along with an expanded set of capabilities. Learn how to tap into the latest image processing operations, perform linear algebra operations, and accelerate machine learning algorithms via new primitives and a graph API to build and execute neural networks on the GPU.
SpriteKit makes it easy to create high-performance, power-efficient 2D games and more. See how to take SpriteKit objects into Augmented Reality through seamless integration with ARKit. Learn about mixing 2D and 3D content and applying realistic transformations. Take direct control over SpriteKit rendering and walk through offline rendering into a Metal texture.
Model I/O makes it easy to bridge the divide between artists' tools and your custom engine. See how to build a Model I/O-powered art pipeline to bring assets from content creation tools into a Metal 2-based renderer. Learn strategies for baking 3D content into structures optimal for real-time rendering, and best practices for working with animation data, common mesh and model formats, textures, and materials.
Security standards are continuing to evolve to counter emerging threats, and so too must your apps if you want to best protect your users and their data. Learn about new developments in certificate handling, TLS, and certificate status checking on iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS that impact your apps.
Protecting user privacy is a core principal in the Apple ecosystem. Learn what that means for the way you design and implement your apps, and learn about privacy-related changes, including new APIs, in the next versions of iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS.
Machine learning opens up opportunities for creating new and engaging experiences. Core ML is a new framework which you can use to easily integrate machine learning models into your app. See how Xcode and Core ML can help you make your app more intelligent with just a few lines of code.
Discover how enhancements in authorization simplify accessing sensitive and historical motion data. Learn how to use DeviceMotion effectively and how to leverage SensorRecorder to capture hours of motion data. Walk through adding immersive motion controls to enhance an existing game.
Learn about the new types of HomeKit accessories supported in iOS 11, new accessory setup options, and how enhancements to triggers make it possible to automatically run scenes based on who is home, only at certain times, and with more types of accessories. Understand how improvements to the HomeKit protocol greatly improve the responsiveness of HomeKit accessories. Discover how HomeKit accessory development is now open for experimentation & exploration.
macOS 10.13 and iOS 11 have reinvented how Grand Central Dispatch and the Darwin kernel collaborate, enabling your applications to run concurrent workloads more efficiently. Learn how to modernize your code to take advantage of these improvements and make optimal use of hardware resources.
Find out how Apple's networking libraries and frameworks are taking advantage of new and improved protocols to deliver better connectivity and performance for your apps. In this first of two sessions, we'll cover ECN, IPv6, Network Extensions, and Multipath protocols.
Local and push notifications enable your app to keep users informed with timely and relevant content, by displaying messages and accepting users' actions, or playing distinctive sounds, or updating the badge on your app icon. Service extensions enable your app to decrypt and augment push notification content before being displayed. Find out what's new and get expert advice on implementing user notifications in your app.
Learn about important improvements to URLSession. Find out how to use new URLSession APIs to better handle connectivity fluctuations, to schedule background session tasks, and to receive progress reports for session tasks. Plus, gain insights into valuable best practices, tips, and news about ongoing work with emerging network technologies.
Dive deeper into the details of the new Core ML framework. Explore how machine learning model development and app development fit together. Take a closer look at how models are represented and how models can be converted from popular machine learning and deep learning libraries, and learn about the performance optimizations Core ML does behind the scenes.
Learn about Sparse Matrix Solvers in the Accelerate framework. In addition, find out how Accelerate's Basic Neural Network Subroutines (BNNS), vDSP, simd and other subframeworks give you fast, energy-efficient signal and image processing and handle large-scale mathematical computations.
Discover how watchOS 4 makes it possible for a watchOS app to communicate with Bluetooth Low Energy accessories. Learn about changes to Core Bluetooth that improve reliability and enable high performance streaming connections with Bluetooth Low Energy Accessories. Understand the best practices in Bluetooth Low Energy accessory design.
Location technologies are core to delivering context-based services within your app. Discover how advances in the Core Location Framework APIs provide new and more performant features in a manner designed to provide confidence for you privacy-conscious users. See how changes in iOS 11 provide clearer communication to your users of when their location is being queried and allows them to provide more granular access authorization to your app.
Apple Pay is the easy and secure way to accept payments in your app and website on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. Get the latest news and updates from the Wallet and Apple Pay teams. New for this year, increase your conversions by providing feedback to users right in the Apple Pay sheet. Discover great new Wallet features like pass sharing controls, and increase customer satisfaction and sales with UI best practices.
The Apple File System (APFS) is a modern file system, optimized for responsiveness on Flash/SSD storage, and designed for extensibility, security, and data integrity. APFS is now the default filesystem on iOS, tvOS, and watchOS. Learn about what's new for APFS on the Mac and how to take advantage of its new features in your apps.
iOS provides several techniques for keeping your app front and center. Whether you're building a kiosk, hospitality check-in, or educational assessment app, choosing the right app-lock technique is critical. From Guided Access to Automatic Assessment Configuration you'll learn which approach works best for your unique experience.
Wireless CarPlay is perfect for any trip. Get in your car without taking your iPhone out of your bag or pocket, and start experiencing CarPlay effortlessly. Learn how to design your CarPlay system to connect wirelessly to iPhone. Understand hardware requirements, best practices for a great user experience, and how to optimize the pairing and reconnection process.
Core NFC is an exciting new framework that enables you to read NFC tags in your apps on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. Learn how to integrate Core NFC into your apps, key requirements for using this feature, and start thinking about the new kinds of apps that are enabled with NFC capabilities.
Understand how to enable your audio, messaging, VoIP calling or automaker app for CarPlay. Audio, messaging and VoIP calling apps use a consistent design that's optimized for use in the car. Automaker apps provide vehicle specific controls and displays to keep drivers connected without leaving CarPlay. Explore best practices and learn about the tools and frameworks for CarPlay apps.
Design principles are the key to understanding how design serves human needs for safety, meaning, achievement and beauty. Learn what these principles are and how they can help you design more welcoming, understandable, empowering and gratifying user experiences.
Design is not just about what people see, it's also about what they hear. Learn about how sound design can help you create a more immersive, usable and meaningful user experience in your app or game, and get a glimpse of how the sounds in Apple products are created.
Learn techniques for determining which Apple platforms are right for your app and how to create a great user experience by designing for the unique capabilities and strengths of each platform.
By understanding the range of abilities and capabilities of the people who use our apps, you can design robust apps that work for everyone. Learn how designing for accessibility and inclusiveness can do social good, widen participation, and enable everyone to benefit.
Creating a great Watch experience involves planning and attention to detail. Learn how to focus your development for Apple Watch to ensure that the experience is timely and contextually relevant for your users. Walk through a case study of the WWDC Watch app and gain insights from the development team's experience across three versions of the app. Finally, learn design and technical tips for making your watchOS app the best it can be.
Good communication between designers and engineers is the key to building great products. Discover how production and specification techniques can improve communication, build trust, and help design and development teams work together to build better apps.
See how the updates to UIKit controls and text styles in iOS 11 can help you design an app with a stronger visual hierarchy, clearer navigation, and a simpler interface that's easier to use.
Great games transport us into another world where we can reign over a kingdom, fight epic battles, or become a pinball wizard. Learn on-boarding and UI design best practices that will enable everyone to lose themselves in your game and have fun.
Designing for multiple screen sizes can seem complicated, difficult, and time-consuming. Learn how size classes, dynamic type, and UIKit elements help your app to scale elegantly, save you time, and make your app look amazing on whatever device people are using.
Learn how to create clear, informative, and helpful alerts that will make your app easy and enjoyable to use. Get valuable insights about the proper role for alerts, actionable guidance about writing effective alerts, and techniques for avoiding common pitfalls.
Providing a great user experience can make it easier to acquire new subscribers. Get insights into effectively communicating the value of your subscriptions, streamlining the sign up flow, and providing a positive and effortless subscription experience.
Choosing a custom font for your app can be a daunting task involving both functional and stylistic decisions. Gain a solid understanding of fundamental font design characteristics such as proportion and contrast. Learn how to apply this knowledge when deciding which font is right for your app.
Engage people from the first moment they open your app, and keep them coming back for more. Learn tips on how to make a compelling first impression, methods for teaching new users about your app, and best practices when asking users for more information.
Discover the keys to creating informative, useful and beautiful rich notifications in iOS. Get practical and detailed guidance about how to design short looks, long looks, and quick actions that will make your app's notifications something people look forward to receiving.
Learn how to quickly build interactive prototypes! See how you can test new ideas and improve upon existing ones with minimal time investment and using tools you are already familiar with.
The worldwide reach of the App Store means that your app can be enjoyed by people from around the globe. Explore ways to make your app useful and appealing to as many people as possible. And pick up simple techniques for avoiding common issues when reaching a global audience.
iMessage Apps help people easily create and share content, play games, and collaborate with friends without needing to leave the conversation. Explore how you can design iMessage apps and sticker packs that are perfectly suited for a deeply social context.
Wide color displays allow your app to display richer, more vibrant and lifelike colors than ever before. Get a primer on color management, the Display P3 color space, and practical workflow techniques for producing more colorful images and icons.
An app icon is the face of your app on the home screen. Learn key design principles for creating simple, unique, meaningful and beautiful app icons. Gain simple but effective techniques for testing your app icon for clarity and immediate recognizability.
Glyphs are a powerful communication tool and a fundamental element of your app's design language. Learn about important considerations when conceptualizing glyphs and key design principles of crafting effective glyph sets for spaces inside and outside of your app.
2018 Platforms State of the Union
Common assumptions can break when your app is used by a global audience. Learn about the many aspects of creating apps for different regions and languages. Understand how to use fonts and typography, layout techniques, and support text input so your app shines in all languages.
iOS 12 enhances the Cocoa Touch frameworks to improve app performance and deliver exciting new features. Learn about performance best practices, security improvements, tools for supporting multiple screen sizes and shapes, new APIs for iMessage apps, Siri Shortcuts, and Swift refinements. Find out which sessions you won't want to miss throughout the week.
Do you have an idea for an app that you think would be useful to others, but you don't know how to make it a reality? You're not alone! Lots of people are interested in app development, but they aren't sure how to turn their idea to code and then into a finished app. From first steps to Xcode, we'll explain the building blocks you need to turn your iOS app idea into reality.
Passwords and security codes are a modern necessity required for security and privacy. iOS 12 eases the tedious aspects of account setup and sign-in by automatically suggesting and using strong, unique passwords — even from within apps — and by bringing one-time codes to the QuickType bar so users can fill them with one tap. Learn how to optimize your app to ensure that password, security code, and other AutoFill features provide a seamless way for your users to be more secure.
HealthKit, CoreMotion, and other iOS frameworks combined with the ResearchKit and CareKit open-source projects, provide a deep platform for the creation of game-changing apps for care teams, researchers, and the medical community. Discover new active tasks that leverage calibrated device data and how new CoreMotion APIs deliver insightful results capable of assisting diagnosis and improving care. Hear about updates and contributions from the open-source community and gain practical guidance you need to rapidly deliver your next research or care app.
watchOS 5 makes creating great experiences on Apple Watch easier than ever before. Learn about robust capabilities to create rich and interactive notifications, a new background mode and controls for audio playback, shortcuts that bring your apps to the Siri watch face, and more. See what’s new in watchOS and discover how to expand your app’s presence on the wrist.
Whether you use web content in your app via an embedded WebKit view, deliver pure web apps, or create web content to be embedded by others, it's important to ensure that you are using the most current web security standards. Learn techniques like such as special cookie attributes and HTTP response headers designed to secure your web content against the latest threats that include cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgeries, and speculative execution attacks, commonly known as Spectre.
Apps on tvOS entertain, inform, and inspire with their content and interactive experiences. tvOS 12 brings new technologies that help make these experiences even more enjoyable and engaging. Get an introduction to focus engine support for non-UIKit apps, new UI elements, and Password AutoFill. Learn how to bring it all together to create incredible tvOS apps and experiences.
Gain insights into the latest in Cocoa frameworks for macOS. Hear about Dark Mode, control tinting, contextual workflows for Touch Bar and Finder, and other improvements in AppKit, Foundation, and related areas. Get an overview and guide to the sessions that we have this year covering advancements in Cocoa.
Hear from the Apple design team about the principles and concepts that anchor Dark Mode. Learn the basics of enhancing your app with this new appearance, and add an experience that people are sure to love.
Siri Shortcuts are a powerful new feature in iOS 12 that allow your app to expose its functionality to Siri. This enables Siri to suggest your shortcut at relevant times based on various context. Shortcuts can also be added to Siri to run with a voice phrase on iOS, HomePod and watchOS. Learn how to expose shortcuts in your app using NSUserActivity and discover the benefits of creating custom intents with SiriKit for a richer user experience.
MapKit JS brings Apple Maps to your website. See how MapKit JS provides map rendering that is optimized for various browsers and devices, and supports native gestures such as pinch-to-zoom, two-finger rotate, and more. Learn how to add annotations and overlays, and how to use JavaScript interfaces to Apple Maps services such as Search and Directions to deliver an amazing map experience on your website.
Learn how to update your audio or navigation app to support CarPlay. Apps in CarPlay are optimized for use in the car, and automatically adapt to available vehicle screens and input controls. Audio apps can deliver music, news, podcasts, and more. With the new CarPlay framework, Navigation apps can provide detailed maps, destination search, turn-by-turn guidance, and user notifications.
Siri Shortcuts are a great way to help people execute actions or get information from your app, but shortcuts can be made even more powerful by adding them to Siri to be used with a simple phrase. Learn how you can now customize responses from Siri and add custom UI to make a great shortcuts experience across iOS, watchOS and HomePod. See how to allow users to add and manage shortcuts from right within your app and learn best practices to make shortcut suggestions that can be exposed through Settings.
The new ClassKit framework lets you organize educational content in your app so that teachers can discover and assign specific activities and view students’ progress in the new Schoolwork app. Learn how to adopt ClassKit to your content structure, declare assignable content, and share student progress on activities teachers assign in Schoolwork.
Last year we introduced the Files App and an easy way to view, edit, and share documents within your application. Learn best practices for implementing this technology, how to effectively manage documents in your app, and how to avoid common document manager pitfalls. Hear about the difference between a Document Browser and a Document Picker and when to use them. Gain a better understanding into how this technology works in a sandbox. Learn how to give your customers a great experience, beginning at sign-in and continuing throughout your app!
Learn how to use Siri Shortcuts to bring glanceable information and custom interactions to the Siri watch face. Walk through how to create a compelling user experience by providing relevant shortcuts and by donating interactions from your app. See how these experiences can be created from both watchOS and iOS.
Step deeper into Dark Mode adoption in your macOS application. Learn about the powerful Cocoa technologies at the core of Dark Mode, and take a detailed look at the APIs and best practices for adapting to this beautiful new look.
Whether it's for UI elements or a fundamental part of your application, at some point, you have to handle images. This session is packed with engaging insight into how images are handled in iOS including discussion of UIImage, UIImageView, custom drawing in UIKit, plus advanced CPU and GPU techniques that can help you maximize performance and minimize memory footprint.
Get a glimpse inside to find out what happens when you add a constraint! Dive into the internals of Auto Layout to develop intuition for how your code affects what happens under the hood. Learn how to measure and refine your approach to Auto Layout and see how its improved performance in iOS 12 will speed up your app.
Leverage the abilities of TextKit to provide the best experience possible displaying and editing text. Get the best performance out of your app by using TextKit effectively. Learn the concepts to do more complex handling, layout and presentation.
A lot can go wrong when loading data into your app. Whether you work directly with JSON and property lists, or with higher-level APIs such as NSCoding and Codable, learn how to defend your customers and secure your code against invalid or malicious data. Avoid fatal assumptions by validating payload structure, type information and domain correctness, to turn the data you work with into data you can trust.
When you imagine building a new app, what do you think about? Models, views, and controllers deserve their prominent place in the design process, but we don't often give the same attention to the underlying work our apps need to do. Understand how to identify and optimize the algorithms in your app, and discover how implementing algorithms as generic protocol extensions results in efficient, effective, and maintainable code.
As your app gains more customers and becomes more feature-rich, you may find yourself with new problems to solve. Core Data is a powerful tool that has changed a lot over the years. Learn about the new best practices in Core Data, such as how to use concurrency and persistent history, and discover how to test for, and resolve, common problems using familiar technologies.
UICollectionView is a flexible, powerful tool to help you achieve great user experiences in your applications. Hear how you can leverage these rich APIs to rapidly move from initial design ideas to polished shipping applications. Topics range from getting started to advanced update animations and layouts.
VoiceOver provides spoken descriptions and braille output of onscreen elements. Learn how to go beyond the visuals to identify VoiceOver and functional issues to help improve the experience for all users.
Learn how to use assets to bring visually compelling and data efficient artwork to your apps, leveraging new features in iOS 12. Gain insight into organizing, optimizing, and authoring artwork assets by using asset catalogs to their fullest. Learn techniques to better streamline workflows between designers and developers. Ensure better app delivery and a smaller footprint, maximizing target audiences of your app with full artwork asset fidelity.
People expect long battery life on their mobile devices, and apps play a vital role in achieving that experience. Understand how app behavior affects battery consumption, and learn strategies to conserve energy while providing the best experience for your app. Find out how Xcode Energy Reports can help you tune your app to use the least amount of power possible.
Every app uses collections! Go beyond the basics with specific tips on how best to use indices, slices, bridging, laziness, and reference types. Gain better understanding of when to use each collection for best performance.
Go beyond the basics and create apps with an exceptional accessibility experience. Learn how to design elements that appear in your app for maximum clarity and accessibility. Discover how to enhance the way users interact with your app even when presenting custom views, or drawing complex UI.
Get a fresh look at the HomeKit APIs. Understand how Siri and the Apple Home App use Action Sets and Accessory Services & Characteristics to provide a great home automation experience.
Business Chat is a powerful way for organizations to connect with customers directly from within Messages. Whether you are a Customer Service Platform provider, a brand looking to integrate chat for customer communication, or a brand app developer looking to extend your iOS app to enhance Business Chat conversations, you'll receive concrete guidance and learn the baseline requirements necessary to ensure you are ready to go live.
iOS contains powerful technologies you can use to make your app truly delightful. Learn how to take your app to the next level with easy-to-implement features such as Handoff and External Display support. Preserve that feeling of magic in your app with pro-tips that combine animations, gestures and layout, while keeping your scrolling smooth, and your code scalable. Dive into the anatomy of a launch to get your app responsive quickly, and learn some great debugging tricks from the pros!
Safari and WebKit are continually evolving with new features, APIs, and cutting edge web standards. Learn about this year’s biggest feature highlights, designed to help you create richer experiences with better performance and security — whether you are developing content for a browser or developing an app with embedded web content.
Ground-up coverage of how to make an app that can fit on devices of every size and shape. Make your app fit beautifully on Apple's full range of devices with the minimum amount of effort, future-proofing your user experience along the way.
Drag and Drop is a powerful API that allows apps to share and communicate data. No matter how you decide to implement Drag and Drop, there's a way to make it work for people with accessibility needs. Learn the details as we dive into accessible Drag and Drop for iOS.
App Store Connect is constantly evolving to improve the experience of managing and deploying your app on App Store. Learn about the new App Store Connect API for managing frequently modified data such as users and groups, see the latest updates to Sales Trends and Analytics reporting, and TestFlight features enhanced to help you test and deploy your next masterpiece.
Learn about new management capabilities for iOS, macOS, and tvOS, tool evolution over the past year, and important changes coming this fall. You'll discover how new MDM features help administrators manage devices more effectively, how educators can enhance the classroom learning environment, and how app developers can make their app a better fit for education and enterprise customers.
The new App Store Connect API provides a familiar and highly readable REST API designed to facilitate the automation of many tasks you would typically perform through the Apple Developer website and the App Store Connect browser interfaces. Learn how this API allows you to manage your apps and testers for TestFlight, create code signing resources, download reports, and even manage your organization. See how this API leverages JWT authentication and a JSON payload for all transactions to make this new service easy to integrate with your existing automated workflows.
Search Ads is a great way to help people discover your app in App Store search results. Learn how new market expansion will give you greater opportunities to reach high quality customers. See how Search Ads Advanced new creative variations will help make your app promotion even more effective.
Hear about the latest advancements in Swift, the safe, fast, and expressive language. Find out about improvements to build times, code size, and runtime performance. Learn how to take advantage of new features in your code that eliminate boilerplate, increase safety and security, and improve your overall development productivity.
Discover major advancements in Xcode playgrounds. Learn advanced tips and techniques, hear about new and often overlooked workflows, and rediscover the tools provided when coding in playgrounds.
Hear about exciting improvements to code coverage, including how you can build your own automation on top of Xcode’s coverage reports. Learn how to dramatically speed up the execution of your tests by leveraging distributed parallel testing, new in Xcode 10.
The localization process in Xcode 10 has been updated to aid you through the lifecycle of exporting, importing, and testing localized content in your apps. See new functionality added in Xcode 10 and learn how the new localization catalog helps you build world-class, localized apps.
Learn how to use signposts and logging to measure performance. Understand how the Points of Interest instrument can be used to examine logged data. Get an introduction into creating and using custom instruments.
Generics are one of the most powerful features of Swift, enabling you to write flexible, reusable components while maintaining static type information. Learn about the design of Swift's generics, including how to generalize protocols, leverage protocol inheritance to express the varying capabilities of related types, build composable generic components with conditional conformances, and reason about the interaction between class inheritance and generics. This expanded version of the WWDC 2018 session includes a brand-new discussion of recursive constraints.
All apps benefit from a focus on performance and an increase in overall responsiveness. This information packed session gives you strategies for fixing performance problems using Instruments and other tools. Additionally, get practical advice based on experience in tuning Apple's own apps including Xcode and Photos on iOS.
Build your apps faster in Xcode 10. Learn how to structure your projects and tweak your code to take full advantage of all processor cores. Whether you've made a few small code changes you want to give a try, or you're building your full app for release, these techniques will cut the time it takes to build a running app.
The LLVM suite of compiler tools in Xcode 10 have new language features, improved diagnostics, and more powerful optimizations. Find out about improvements to ARC for Objective-C, keep up with the newest additions to C++, get an overview of new and improved diagnostics and static analyzer checks, and learn about how LLVM compiler technology is delivering faster build times and better runtime performance for your apps.
Understand how custom instruments are useful and when they should be used. Get an in-depth view of the architecture of custom instruments and how to create them. Understand the attributes of a good instrument. Dive into advanced modeling and how to use the CLIPS language.
The Swift Package Manager makes it possible to easily develop and distribute source code in the Swift ecosystem. Learn about its goals, design, unique features, and the opportunities it has for continued evolution.
Discover advanced techniques, and tips and tricks for enhancing your Xcode debugging workflows. Learn how to take advantage of LLDB and custom breakpoints for more powerful debugging. Get the most out of Xcode’s view debugging tools to solve UI issues in your app more efficiently.
Swift Playgrounds is a revolutionary iPad app to teach coding with the powerful Swift programming language. Learn how to create your own content for Swift Playgrounds using the new template, and find out how to use the subscription format to host your own feed online for others to access.
Sudden app crashes are a source of bad user experience and app review rejections. Learn how crash logs can be analyzed, what information they contain and how to diagnose the causes of crashes, including hard-to-reproduce memory corruptions and multithreading issues.
Ever wonder what happens when you build your project in Xcode? Learn how Xcode automates the steps required to build an application, and go behind the scenes to learn how clang, swiftc, and the linker work together to turn your source code into a working program.
Discover how memory graphs can be used to get a close up look at what is contributing to an app’s memory footprint. Understand the true memory cost of an image. Learn some tips and tricks for reducing the memory footprint of an app.
Testing is an essential tool to consistently verify your code works correctly, but often your code has dependencies that are out of your control. Discover techniques for making hard-to-test code testable on Apple platforms using XCTest. Learn a variety of tips for writing higher-quality tests that run fast and require less maintenance.
Xcode integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab to help you manage your source code, back up your files, and collaborate with others. Find out how to easily see the changes in your project right in the source editor, and learn how to use Xcode for common source control workflows with Git. See how conflicts occur, how to resolve them, and how to avoid them before they even happen.
Podcasts are created and enjoyed by millions of people around the world. With the addition of Podcast Analytics, podcasters can gather actionable and insightful intelligence into how their show is consumed, while respecting the privacy of their listeners. Learn how to interpret and use these new analytics to improve your show.
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is used to stream live and on-demand content to global audiences. Discover how to adjust and tune stream authoring and delivery elements to improve the viewing experience. Learn how to accurately measure your streaming performance, identify optimization opportunities, and implement changes to your HLS streams that can significantly improve the user experience.
The TrueDepth camera in the iPhone X streams high-quality depth data in real time allowing you to enhance your photo and video apps in fun and creative ways. Dive deep into the principles and best practices for working with depth data, learn how to use the new Portrait Segmentation API for still images, and see how these techniques can create special effects like background replacement and perspective changes.
Apps in watchOS 5 have control over audio playback like never before. With a full-fledged background mode for local audio playback using AVFoundation, people can listen to content on the go right from Apple Watch. Learn how to use the new volume control and how to respond to MediaRemote commands. Dive into best practices for getting audio onto Apple Watch with URLSession and update progress when using WatchConnectivity to transfer files from iPhone. Explore how to control playback on iPhone from your app with the new Now Playing view.
Make your apps even better through improved integration with Photos on macOS. We'll dive deep into the Photos Project Extension API that was introduced in macOS High Sierra and update you on what's new. You'll also learn best practices for handling file promises and image URLs to better handle drag & drop from Photos to your app.
MusicKit has enabled the creation of new, compelling, and engaging Apple Music powered app experiences. With the introduction of MusicKit on the web, as a developer, you can now bring Apple Music powered experiences to the web. Learn how to use declarative markup or javascript to enable Apple Music on your website.
ReplayKit 2 provides built-in services for broadcasting your screen from iOS and tvOS to viewers online. See how broadcasts can be started right within Control Center or from standard UI included in your own apps and games. Hear about developing broadcast extensions for ReplayKit 2 and get best practices for handling account sign-in.
ARKit 2 makes it easy to develop vivid augmented reality experiences and enable apps to interact with the real world in entirely new ways. Discover how multiple iOS devices can simultaneously view an AR scene or play multiplayer AR games. Learn about new capabilities for tracking 2D images, and see how to detect known 3D objects like sculptures, toys, and furniture.
With iOS 12, ARKit includes a built-in viewer for displaying and sharing high-quality 3D content using Pixar's usdz file format. Get introduced to the capabilities of AR Quick Look and see how to easily integrate AR into your app. Learn best practices for preparing 3D models for AR, and see how to deliver usdz content for viewing across Safari, Mail, Messages, and other built-in apps.
Metal is the foundation for accelerated graphics and compute on Apple platforms, enabling your apps and games to tap into the incredible power of the GPU. Get introduced to essential Metal capabilities and understand the recommended approach for transitioning OpenGL-based apps onto the Metal API.
Developed by Apple, SwiftShot is an energetic and immersive multiplayer AR game built with key iOS technologies. Glimpse behind the curtain and see how SwiftShot was designed and developed using ARKit, SceneKit, and Swift. Understand the intricacies of designing great gameplay for AR, and learn practical techniques for multiplayer synchronization and physics simulation.
Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) harnesses the massive parallelism of the GPU to dramatically accelerate calculations at the heart of modern ray tracing and ray casting techniques. See how ray tracing can provide greater realism in 3D scenes through improved shading, soft shadows, and global illumination. Understand how MPS accelerates ray-triangle intersections while enabling dynamic scene updates, and learn how to extend your app across multiple GPUs for even greater performance.
Metal 2 is Apple-designed graphics software that lets developers build console‑style games. Learn key aspects of the Metal architecture that support the techniques for modern high-performance game rendering. See how Metal now enables the GPU to schedule work for itself, allowing complete scenes and compute workloads to be built and executed with little to no CPU interaction. Understand how the seamless integration of Metal 2 with the A11 Bionic chip lets your apps and games realize entirely new levels of performance and capability.
Metal provides powerful tools for analyzing shader behavior and optimizing performance. Dive into troubleshooting vertex-stage problems with new geometry viewing capabilities in Xcode. Use the shader debugger to step through vertex, fragment, and compute shader execution line-by-line. Get details about analyzing GPU workload, and check out shader profiler enhancements for A11 Bionic.
Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) includes a highly tuned library of machine learning primitives leveraging the tremendous power of the GPU. With iOS 12 and macOS Mojave, MPS adds capabilities to accelerate the computationally intensive task of training a neural network. Learn performance optimizations for inference, and understand the training process for both convolutional and recurrent neural networks (CNNs and RNNs).
With ARKit your app can see the world and place virtual objects on horizontal and vertical surfaces and recognize images and objects. Go beyond the API to gain insights into the innovative methods and techniques underlying these capabilities. See how ARKit combines device motion with the camera to provide accurate tracking and plane detection. Get a deeper understanding of persistence and multi-device AR and learn the recommended approach for image tracking and object detection.
On macOS, Metal 2 adds specialized support for virtual reality (VR) rendering and external GPUs. Learn about new features and optimizations to take advantage of these technologies within your Metal 2-based apps and games. Understand best practices for scheduling workloads across multiple GPUs and techniques for frame pacing while multi-threading.
Realize the full potential of your Metal-based games by tackling common issues that cause frame rate slowdowns, stutters, and stalls. Discover how to clear up jitter and maintain a silky-smooth frame rate with simple changes in frame pacing. Get introduced to new tools for analyzing rendering passes and pinpoint expensive or unexpected work. Learn how to avoid thread stalls and get specific advice about handling thermal notifications.
Learn how to use sophisticated Signal and Image Processing techniques to bring higher performance to your apps while lowering battery consumption. See compelling use cases for the Accelerate framework with interactive demos. Explore using simd—a valuable addition that effortlessly brings vector programming to your apps.
Apple is on a mission to advance the state of Mac security, and we want your apps to be there with us. Learn about new protections for user data, new capabilities with Developer ID, and how you can best secure your apps.
Create ML is a new framework designed to help you easily build machine learning models using Swift and Xcode. Designed for Simplicity and Performance. Learn how you can build customized models from data that will enable new and powerful features in your apps using Create ML.
Learn about the latest updates in StoreKit, including offering introductory pricing for subscriptions, requesting ratings and reviews, promoting your in-app purchases within the App Store, and developing in the sandbox environment. Dive deep into best practices for processing transactions and validating receipts.
Learn the best practices for architecting your subscription infrastructure using StoreKit and server-side logic. Find out about simple engineering techniques to keep your subscribers longer, and how to utilize new tools and APIs to give your subscribers the best experience.
HealthKit provides a consolidated repository for a variety of data including health records containing information such as lab results, immunizations, and medications downloaded directly from institutions. Discover new health records classes and types created to provide easy access to high-level record types without preventing access to the underlying raw data. Learn new authorization techniques that allows your app to access health record data for analysis and presentation in a manner that respects your customer's privacy.
Tracking workouts with Apple Watch is popular with fitness professionals and novices alike. See how the new workout API streamlines the entire lifecycle of a workout, complete with ability to restart a session after a crash to prevent you from losing data. Learn how the new workout classes, types, and queries provide quick access to baseline sample data you would typical calculate without limiting access to the fine grained samples you may occasionally require.
Introduced just one year ago, Core ML has already revolutionized the way apps can benefit from machine learning, by enabling fast and private on device machine learning features for your app. Find out how new Core ML features let you reduce the size of models, make them more flexible, and dramatically improve performance.
The Core ML tools ecosystem gives you many options for building and optimizing models to meet your app requirements. Learn how to add flexibility to existing models, quantize them, and take advantage of Core ML's support for customization.
Local and push notifications enable your app to keep users informed with timely and relevant content, by displaying messages and accepting users’ actions, or playing distinctive sounds, or updating the badge on your app icon. Improvements to rich notifications help you create more engaging content and better manage notifications. Find out what’s new and get expert advice on implementing user notifications in your app.
Grouping the notifications your app sends helps people get more information at a glance and manage multiple notifications at once. Learn how to implement Grouped Notifications in your app.
Turi Create is an open source toolset for creating Core ML models, for tasks such as image classification, object detection, style transfers, recommendations, and more. Learn how you can use Turi Create to build models for your apps.
Natural Language is a redesigned framework designed to provide high-performance, on-device APIs for fundamental NLP tasks across all Apple platforms. Through the deep integration of the framework with Core ML and Create ML, you now have the ability to train custom NLP models to perform many different inferences and leverage the power of NLP in your apps. Join us for this exciting session to learn all the details and to see it in action.
Learn what Apple has been doing to help your app get the most out of the network with the least effort. Let Apple’s networking APIs do the heavy lifting for you. Learn best practices for getting top networking performance from your app using the URLSession APIs.
The new Network.framework API gives you direct access to the same high-performance user-space networking stack used by URLSession. If you’re considering using Berkeley Sockets in your app or library, learn what better options are available to you.
Vision is a high-level framework that provides an easy to use API for handling many computer vision tasks. We'll dive deep into a particularly powerful feature of Vision—tracking objects in video streams. Learn best practices for using Vision in your app. Gain a greater understanding of how request handlers function in terms of lifecycle, performance, and memory utilization.
Using Core ML models in Vision makes the creation of powerful Computer Vision applications easy. Learn how easy it is to use custom trained classifiers and object recognition models in a live camera capture. In addition, you'll learn about the latest additions to the Vision Framework along with a deeper dive into some its fundamentals.
At Apple, we believe in building products with both great features and great privacy. Learn how to apply privacy engineering techniques to your apps so you can build trust with users to unlock better experiences and engagement. And find out how new privacy features can benefit you and your users.
Core Image is the essential framework for handling image processing tasks in your photo and video apps. In this session, we'll explore new additions to the framework that allow you to achieve great performance in your filter chains and custom CIKernels. We'll also demo a new approach to prototyping in Core Image through the use of an interactive Python environment. Through these techniques you'll discover new ideas for building new creative effects as well as practical approaches to batch processing images for tasks such as image compositing and data boosting for machine learning.
Get the latest news and updates from the Wallet and Apple Pay team. Learn how iPhone and Apple Watch can power innovative commerce experiences. Hear about the latest design best practices for Apple Pay. And discover how to create your own contactless passes for rewards cards, gift cards, tickets and more.
Password AutoFill delivers the ability to fill passwords seamlessly within iOS apps and Safari. Join us to learn how app developers who provide credential management can surface their credentials during sign-in within apps and on the web.
Great Design isn’t magic, it is crafted with care by real people. Explore the characteristics of great design through the voices of designers from Apple and our developer community. Learn how they take inspiration from everyday life, conceive and refine ideas, and push themselves to design apps and games that can stand the test of time.
Great app experiences leap off the screen. They are dynamic, immersive, personal, and, above all else, the result of a strong and clear intent. Learn key techniques for being intentional with your design by choosing appropriate metaphors, making extreme choices, and making every interaction feel more authentic and natural.
Discover the techniques used to create the fluid gestural interface of iPhone X. Learn how to design with gestures and motion that feel intuitive and natural, making your app a delight to use.
An in-depth exploration of essential interaction, visual and sound design principles and techniques through the design of a simple button.
Engaging AR experiences are easy to start and navigate, persuasively realistic, and highly immersive. Learn best practices for successfully bringing people into an AR experience, teaching them about how to interact and engage with virtual content, and making your AR content look beautiful and grounded in the real world.
Thoughtfully designed notifications are a powerful way to communicate timely information to people that they will find valuable and useful. Learn how you can design notifications people want to receive by making them beautiful, helpful, actionable, and respectful of their valuable time and attention.
Make your apps even more powerful and expressive with Apple Pencil. Learn Apple Pencil design best practices such as correctly balancing touch and pencil interactions, fully harnessing Apple Pencil sensors, and creating more efficient and natural user flows.
Ideas can live or die by their presentation. Learn indispensable and proven techniques for presenting your design work to better communicate your objectives and receive helpful, valuable and constructive feedback.
WWDC 2019 Platforms State of the Union
Listen to four lightning talks from Apple Accessibility engineers to learn about how to make your app more inclusive and accessible. Get a tour of VoiceOver from an engineer who will demonstrate how descriptive labels make the difference between using an app and deleting an app. Hear about new API in iOS 13 that can make your app easier and better to use for people with motional sensitivity, color-blindness, and other visual disorders. Learn about how to reduce the number of swipes and taps for people who use assistive technologies and how to use the Accessibility Inspector to ensure that all parts of your app are accessible.
CloudKit offers powerful, cloud-syncing technology while Core Data provides extensive data modeling and persistence APIs. Learn about combining these complementary technologies to easily build cloud-backed applications. See how new Core Data APIs make it easy to manage the flow of data through your application, as well as in and out of CloudKit. Join us to learn more about combining these frameworks to provide a great experience across all your customers’ devices.
iOS 13 brings desktop-class browsing to iPad. With blazing-fast performance, industry-leading security, and modern desktop features, Safari on iPad supports the latest web standards designed and automatically adapts desktop sites and web apps to touch in order to deliver a rich browsing experience. Learn how your site or embedded WebView can take advantage of powerful new features and coding best practices to deliver a best-in class user experience for iPad.
See SwiftUI in action! Watch as engineers from the SwiftUI team build a fully-functioning app from scratch. Understand the philosophy driving this new framework and learn about the benefits of declarative-style programming. Take a look under the hood to understand how SwiftUI operates and learn how SwiftUI and Xcode 11 work together to help you to build great apps, faster.
iPad Apps for Mac is an easy way to bring your iPad app to the Mac while maintaining your single code-base. Learn about common Mac features that are automatically implemented for you. Find out how to work with iOS-only frameworks and what using them could mean for your app. Hear about some common usage patterns including how to use third-party frameworks and some setup tips and tricks. Get a taste for how you can make your new Mac app feel like a Mac app by incorporating platform-specific features.
SF Symbols introduces a comprehensive library of vector-based symbols that you can incorporate into your app to simplify the layout of user interface elements through automatic alignment with surrounding text, and support for multiple weights and sizes. Learn how easy it is to adapt to different screen sizes and layouts, and improve the accessibility and localizability of your app. Get details on how to create new symbols for your specific needs that perfectly match the visual style of SF Symbols.
iOS 13 enhances SiriKit by bringing all new support for audio content playback. See how to provide an excellent, hands-free experience for playing your music, audiobooks, podcasts, radio, and more. Dive into best practices for handling search terms, discover how to provide a complete experience with playback speeds, adding to playlists, and allowing customers to tell you if they like or dislike content.
watchOS 6 enables a whole new level of watchOS experiences by allowing fully independent apps and apps built just for Apple Watch, and by bringing the App Store to Apple Watch. Discover how to leverage the power of many iOS frameworks and technologies, now on watchOS, to create fully independent experiences on Apple Watch.
Core ML 3 has been greatly expanded to enable even more amazing, on-device machine learning capabilities in your app. Learn about the new Create ML app which makes it easy to build Core ML models for many tasks. Get an overview of model personalization; exciting updates in Vision, Natural Language, Sound, and Speech; and added support for cutting-edge model types.
Learn about the latest APIs in AppKit and associated frameworks. Get an overview of the enhancements coming in macOS Catalina to help you save time, take advantage of the latest hardware, and add polish to your application.
tvOS apps can deliver amazing experiences with stunning picture quality through 4K resolution, Dolby Vision and HDR10, and immersive sound through Dolby Atmos. Discover how to design beautiful, engaging, content-first experiences for your media applications. Learn about the new Top Shelf extension and styles to engage customers in your content before they even open your app. Take advantage of user profile support to offer an even more intuitive shared device experience.
Multitasking is an exciting way to add power to your iPad app. It is easy to enable your app to run two instances of your interface side-by-side, and your customers will love it. Learn how to take your existing features like drag and drop and use them to easily create a second window. Find out how supporting multiple windows changes the app lifecycle and what that means for all applications. Hear about some common mistakes and how to solve them, setting you and your customers up for a fantastic experience.
Parameters take Siri Shortcuts to the next level, enabling an interactive voice experience in Siri with follow-up questions, and allowing people to customize shortcuts in the Shortcuts app, now built into iOS. Walk through setting up your shortcuts to take advantage of parameters and learn how your shortcuts can pass output to other actions when creating multi-step shortcuts in the Shortcuts app.
Hear from the UIKit engineering team about the principles and concepts that anchor Dark Mode on iOS. Get introduced to the principles of enhancing your app with this new appearance using dynamic colors and images, and add an experience that people are sure to love.
Collection View Layouts make it easy to build rich interactive collections. Learn how to make dynamic and responsive layouts that range in complexity from basic lists to an advanced, multi-dimensional browsing experience.
Take your first deep-dive into building an app with SwiftUI. Learn about Views and how they work. From basic controls to sophisticated containers like lists and navigation stacks, SwiftUI enables the creation of great user interfaces, faster and more easily. See how basic controls like Button are both simple yet versatile. Discover how to compose these pieces into larger, full-featured user interfaces that facilitate building great apps with SwiftUI. Build your SwiftUI skills as you learn the essentials of Apple’s new declarative framework.
The ResearchKit and CareKit frameworks are the fastest route to delivering powerful native iOS apps for the research and patient care field. Learn about the newest audio and speech active-tasks, a completely redesigned user experience, and modular architecture designed to make it a breeze to create care plan apps for any use case.
Discover how HealthKit is enriching and expanding the health data types available to the users of your app. Learn about modern storage for high-frequency health data types, accessing beat-to-beat heart rate data, and how to bring an entire new dimension of health to your users with new support for hearing health.
SwiftUI allows a whole new world of possibilities when developing watchOS apps and notifications. From custom animations to providing an intuitive feel with Digital Crown haptics, SwiftUI helps you build exciting and immersive experiences for Apple Watch. See how easy it is to create custom elements with animations, embed gesture-driven animations within notifications, and learn about the enhanced debugging support to make watchOS app development faster than ever.
Use UI Data Sources to simplify updating your table view and collection view items using automatic diffing. High fidelity, quality animations of set changes are automatic and require no extra code! This improved data source mechanism completely avoids synchronization bugs, exceptions, and crashes! Learn about this simplified data model that uses on identifiers and snapshots so that you can focus on your app’s dynamic data and content instead of the minutia of UI data synchronization.
Meet PencilKit, Apple's feature-rich drawing and annotation framework. With just a few lines of code, you can add a full drawing experience to your app — with access to a canvas, responsive inks, rich tool palette and drawing model. Hear the technical details that make a great Apple Pencil experience. Learn about the new screenshot editor and how you can adopt just a few small APIs to enable your full content to be captured beyond the size of the screen, with or without your app's user interface.
Learn all about the many advances in the Vision Framework including effortless image classification, image saliency, determining image similarity, and improvements in facial feature detection, and face capture quality scoring. This packed session will show you how easy it is to bring powerful computer vision techniques to your apps.
Core Haptics lets you design your own haptics with synchronized audio on iPhone. In this two part session, learn essential sound and haptic design principles and concepts for creating meaningful and delightful experiences that engage a wider range of human senses. Discover how to combine visuals, audio and haptics, using the Taptic Engine, to add a new level of realism and improve feedback in your app or game. Understand how to create and play back content, and where Core Haptics fits in with other audio and haptic APIs.
iOS 13 combines powerful new multitasking and productivity technologies with a refreshed look and feel for all applications. Familiarize yourself with new requirements to keep your app ready for upcoming versions of iOS. Discover improvements to search fields and a totally new way to present UI. Learn how to adopt new gestures around selection, access peek and pop on all hardware, and how to renew your app's look for iOS 13.
Powerful new features in the AVCapture API let you capture photos and video from multiple cameras simultaneously. Photos now benefit from semantic segmentation that allows you to isolate hair, skin, and teeth in a photo. Learn how these advances enable you to create great camera apps and easily achieve stunning photo effects.
SwiftUI was built from the ground up to let you write beautiful and correct user interfaces free of inconsistencies. Learn how to connect your data as dependencies while keeping the UI fully predictable and error free. Familiarize yourself with SwiftUI’s powerful data flow tools and understand what the best tool is for each situation.
Starting with iOS 13, your iOS app can contribute fonts for systemwide use. Understand how fonts are managed on iOS, and learn how to install and access fonts. Get details on the font picker interface that allows users to choose fonts, and the System UI fonts that are now available for use in your app. Review best practices for text scaling that works regardless of device.
Take a journey through the creation of an educational game that brings together Core ML, ARKit, and other app frameworks. Discover opportunities for magical interactions in your app through the power of machine learning. Gain a deeper understanding of approaches to solving challenging computer vision problems. See it all come to life in an interactive coding session.
Core Data helps manage the flow of data throughout your app. Hear about new features in Core Data that make your code simpler and more powerful, including derived attributes, history tracking, change notifications and batch operations. Learn more about using these facilities and the new diffing APIs in UIKit and Foundation to make your apps run more efficiently.
SwiftUI is designed to integrate with your existing code base on any of Apple’s platforms. Learn how to adopt SwiftUI on any Apple platform by adding SwiftUI views into your app’s hierarchy, leveraging your existing data model and more.
Natural Language is a framework designed to provide high-performance, on-device APIs for natural language processing tasks across all Apple platforms. Learn about the addition of Sentiment Analysis and Text Catalog support in the framework. Gain a deeper understanding of transfer learning for text-based models and the new support for Word Embeddings which can power great search experiences in your app.
Xcode 11 displays previews of your user interface right in the editor, streamlining the edit-debug-run cycle into a seamless workflow. Learn how previews work, how to optimize the structure of your SwiftUI app for previews, and how to add preview support to your existing views and view controllers.
Document Camera and Text Recognition features in Vision Framework enable you to extract text data from images. Learn how to leverage this built-in machine learning technology in your app. Gain a deeper understanding of the differences between fast versus accurate processing as well as character-based versus language-based recognition.
macOS Catalina provides an easy way to bring your iPad app to the Mac while maintaining your single code-base. Hear about ways in which you can take your app beyond the default behaviors to optimize its interface for the Mac. Get an overview of APIs you can use and macOS design guidelines that need to be considered. Learn how the iPad app lifecycle comes across on the Mac, and get distribution details for your application.
MapKit and MapKit JS bring fully featured Apple Maps to your app and website. See how the latest features give you more control over the base map presentation, finer-grained search and result filtering of points of interest and address information, and integration with standard data formats for custom overlays and annotations.
Learn how to build custom views and controls in SwiftUI with advanced composition, layout, graphics, and animation. See a demo of a high performance, animatable control and watch it made step by step in code. Gain a deeper understanding of the layout system of SwiftUI.
Making your app accessible is critical, but just as important is designing a fantastic accessibility experience. Learn what makes a great experience and how to make your app understandable, navigable, and interactable. SwiftUI builds accessibility into your app for you! Discover how much you get with no extra adoption, like accessible images and controls. Identify where you can add supplemental accessibility information with the new SwiftUI Accessibility API, which gives you the tools to add information to elements such as labels, values, and hints.
Successful app development requires mastering a lot of different things. Discover practices you can incorporate into your development workflow to enhance your productivity, and improve your app’s performance and stability. Learn how to improve the quality of code you write with Xcode. Gain a practical understanding of some valuable development techniques.
Once you’ve learned the basics of SwiftUI, you’ve learned what you need to know to use SwiftUI anywhere. You can use the same SwiftUI skills for making an iOS app as you would for making an app on watchOS, tvOS or macOS. We'll cover the basics, and then dig into more detail about how SwiftUI can help you make changes to your app on every Apple device. Hear about design principles for each platform and learn about how much code you can share across platforms. See how to incorporate device-specific features and how to make changes in SwiftUI by following along with a starter project, available for download.
The Indoor Maps Program enables organizations with large public or private spaces to deliver user experiences that provide precise indoor location information and present stunning indoor maps. Discover the overall process in the indoor map enablement workflow then take deep dive into the technical details on how MapKit and MapKit JS use powerful APIs and geo-standards to rapidly integrate indoor maps into your app and website.
The Indoor Maps Program enables organizations with large public or private spaces to deliver user experiences that provide precise indoor location information and present stunning indoor maps. Discover the overall process in the indoor map enablement workflow then take deep dive into the technical details on how MapKit and MapKit JS use powerful APIs and geo-standards to rapidly integrate indoor maps into your app and website.
Hear lightning talks from experts on the System Experience team to help take your app to the next level. Learn how to structure your application to instantiate your UI, manage resources, and handle when windows come and go. Understand what the lifecycle of a window is, how to target content to a specific window, and how to ensure your content is always up to date.
Siri is the intelligence behind displaying what someone needs to know about at just the right moment. In iOS 13, we’re extending this capability to allow your apps to let Siri know when a reservation has been made and Siri can elevate checking in at the right time. Siri can also provide directions to the reservation in Maps, add the event to Calendar, and more. Discover how you can add the power of Siri Event Suggestions to your apps.
App Store Connect continues to improve its role in each step of your app's lifecycle with new features that make your app submission, management, and distribution experience better than ever. Learn about the latest enhancements and discover new ways to ensure each release of your app is better than the last.
Learn about the latest updates in StoreKit and dive deep into best practices for using server-to-server notifications to manage your subscribers.
Learn about the latest management enhancements for iOS, macOS, and tvOS and the evolution of management tools over the past year. You'll discover how new MDM features help administrators manage devices more effectively, how new technologies deliver support for centrally managed authorization, and how Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager have been enhanced to streamline management of your organizations apps, content, and devices.
Whether you want to share your app with a few colleagues, deliver it to employees within an organization, or release it to the world, there's a distribution mechanism designed to fit your needs. Familiarize yourself with each app deployment model, learn how to choose the one that's best for you, and learn about essential testing and distribution tools.
Dive into implementation best practices for Subscription Offers using StoreKit and server-side logic. Learn how to generate signatures, determine customer eligibility, and reduce churn, plus gain insights into strategies for distributing offers to your customers and utilizing Subscription Offers to give your subscribers the best experience.
Start the week with a tour of new features in Xcode 11, designed to help you get from idea to product faster than ever. Discover new ways to edit and organize your source code, new capabilities for designing and previewing user interfaces, and great improvements for debugging and testing. Get an overview for sessions covering developer tools this year.
Swift is now the language of choice for a number of major frameworks across all of Apple's platforms, including SwiftUI, RealityKit and Create ML. Join us for a review of Swift 5.0 and an exploration of Swift 5.1, new in Xcode 11. Find out about the latest advancements in performance and safety. Discover new features in the language, and how they have enabled the development of these new frameworks.
Learn how your app can support per-app language settings in iOS 13. Get the details on localizing assets with asset catalogs and simplifying your localization workflow with Xcode 11. Understand how to generate screenshots in multiple languages for localization and testing.
Xcode is the development environment for creating great apps for Apple platforms. Find out how to take advantage of Xcode features to go all the way from a new project to App Store distribution. Along the way, you'll learn how to navigate the Xcode user interface, how to take advantage of the source editor and live user interface previews, how to incorporate community-developed Swift packages into your app, and how to refactor and test your code, all while developing a working SwiftUI app.
Introducing Swift Playgrounds 3: the latest iteration of the revolutionary app for iPad that makes coding in Swift interactive and fun. Discover how you can use your own playgrounds to rapidly iterate on code that uses device features. Find out how the new modules feature both helps organize your own code and provides new opportunities for playground book authors.
Create ML enables you to create, evaluate, and test powerful, production-class Core ML models. See how easy it is to create your own Object Detection and Sound Classification models for use in your apps. Learn strategies for balancing your training data to achieve great model accuracy.
Create ML enables you to produce powerful Core ML models from more than just images. Learn all about creating production-class models for Activity Classification, Text Classification, and Recommendation systems. Explore considerations for gathering and preparing the data needed for these model types.
Swift packages are a great way to organize and share code, and are now supported while building apps for all Apple platforms in Xcode 11. Find out how to use community-developed packages in your project, how Swift packages are structured, and how package versioning and dependencies work.
Keep up with the latest enhancements to C, Objective-C, and C++ made possible by advancements in the Clang compiler and LLVM. Find out about new static analyzer features and how to use them to improve your code. Learn how to take advantage of new optimizations for code size.
Whether you want to publish code to share with the community, or you just want a convenient way to organize the code in your apps, Swift packages are here to help. Learn how to create local packages for your own development, how to customize your package via the manifest file, and how to go about publishing a package for others to use.
The Instruments app in Xcode provides a rich set of tools and templates for profiling your app performance. Learn all about Instruments and gain strategies for identifying bottlenecks in your code. See just how to leverage the power of time profiling and points of interest tracking to make meaningful changes to your code that can dramatically improve app responsiveness.
Xcode 11 introduces new features for finding and fixing bugs fast. Discover how to simulate network conditions and thermal states, and how to override your app's runtime environment while debugging. See how the debugging features work with Xcode previews to identify issues before Build & Run. Learn how to work with the View Debugger to troubleshoot your SwiftUI views.
Unit testing is an essential tool to consistently verify your code works correctly. Learn about the built-in testing features in Xcode, using XCTest. Find out how to organize your tests and run them under different configurations using test plans, new in Xcode 11. Discover how to automate testing and efficiently work with the results.
Learn how to add useful tracing to your reusable classes, subsystems, or frameworks. By making it easy to trace your code, you provide adopters with valuable insight and confidence. We'll show you best practices for tracing your Swift and Objective-C code, building custom instruments, and visualizing data in Instruments 11. Share your expertise in a tools experience so others can understand the contracts of your APIs and avoid anti-patterns that impact performance.
Every programming language has a set of conventions that people come to expect. Learn about the patterns that are common to Swift API design, with examples from new APIs like SwiftUI, Combine, and RealityKit. Whether you're developing an app as part of a team, or you're publishing a library for others to use, find out how to use new features of Swift to ensure clarity and correct use of your APIs.
Xcode 11 now fully supports using and creating binary frameworks in Swift. Find out how to simultaneously support devices and Simulator with the new XCFramework bundle type, how Swift module interfaces work, and how to manage changes to your framework over time.
Learn about new ways to find and fix performance issues during daily development, beta testing, and public release on the App Store. Learn how to catch performance issues during daily development by measuring CPU, memory, and more in your XCTests. Discover how to find issues in the field during beta testing and public release using MetricKit. See how the Xcode Organizer now displays the most important metrics from your app aggregated from each version on the App Store.
Join us for a deep dive into the world of Simulator. Find out how Simulator works, discover features you might not know exist, and get a tour of the command-line interface to Simulator for automation. Learn about native GPU acceleration in Simulator via Metal, and how to optimize your Metal code to take advantage of it.
How you store data in your app affects not only disk footprint, but also the performance of your app and the battery life of the device. Learn techniques for optimizing data serialization, working with images, and syncing to disk. Find out how to take advantage of features in SQLite to improve performance and safety.
Apple’s open source toolset, Turi Create, recently added tasks for Core ML model creation including Drawing Classification and One-Shot Object Detection. Learn how to quickly use these capabilities in your apps as well as new techniques for visualizing and evaluating the performance of your custom models.
Custom instruments make it possible to profile your app your way, telling the story of what your app is doing at runtime. At the center of each custom instrument is a modeler. Find out how to build your own modelers that translate from signpost output to the data you want to show in your instrument. Learn how the Instruments rules engine works and how to optimize your instrument for maximum efficiency. This session builds on Creating Custom Instruments from WWDC 2018.
World-class apps deliver a great user experience, even in the most strenuous environments. Learn how to use Xcode to simulate adverse network and temperature conditions. Put your app through its paces and get a firsthand view of how it performs. Hear about best practices that you can adopt to respond to challenging conditions.
Slow app launches are frustrating. Learn about the new app launch instrument and discover how to make your app launch fast. Gain insights into what happens during app launch and how to minimize, prioritize, and optimize work at this critical time. Hear tips and tricks from the engineers making iOS apps launch fast.
AirPlay lets you share videos, photos, music, and more from Apple devices to your Apple TV, favorite speakers, and popular smart TVs. Learn how to deliver the best possible experience for AirPlay video, including automatic route selection for long form content, remote control, now playing metadata, and video quality considerations.
Since its introduction in 2009, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) has enabled the delivery of countless live and on‐demand audio and video streams globally. With the introduction of a new Low-Latency mode, latencies of less than two seconds are now achievable over public networks at scale, while still offering backwards compatibility to existing clients. Learn about how to develop and configure your content delivery systems to take advantage of this new technology.
AVKit is a high-level framework for building media user interfaces, complete with playback controls, chapter navigation, Picture-in-Picture, audio routing, support for subtitles and closed captioning, Siri and Now Playing integration, and support for keyboard, Touch Bar, and remote control. Learn best practices in how to integrate these technologies into your own apps on iOS, tvOS, and iPad apps on Mac.
Three lightning talks designed for web and app developers working with web content or any developer looking to use web techniques to secure resource access. Learn new Safari Extension features, including powerful new APIs for tab management and content blocking, and how to make link following in your Mac and UIKit for Mac apps great. See how to integrate your web content with powerful new platform features such as Dark Mode, Share Sheet, Apple Pay, and more. And, discover how to improve your app login experiences with new sign-in features from Sign in with Apple to new APIs for streamlined password sign-in.
Metal is the GPU-accelerated graphics and compute framework that helps developers build everything from pro apps to console-style games. Learn how to apply Metal features to implement modern graphics techniques including deferred and tiled-forward rendering. See how GPU-driven capabilities enable Metal to schedule work for itself, allowing complete scenes and compute workloads to be built and executed with little to no CPU interaction. Understand how GPU Families make it easier for you to build apps that scale across Apple platforms, and explore how Metal lets your apps and games realize entirely new levels of performance and capability.
Universal Scene Description (USD) enables the robust description of 3D scenes and empowers engineers and artists to seamlessly collaborate across the creative workflow. Get introduced to the powerful capabilities of USD and explore its incredible scalability. Gain a deeper understanding of how USD assets are created and learn about delivering usdz content for use with ARKit and RealityKit.
Architected for AR, RealityKit provides developers access to world-class capabilities for rendering, animation, physics, and spatial audio. See how RealityKit reimagines the traditional 3D engine to make AR development faster and easier for developers than ever before. Understand the building blocks of developing RealityKit based apps and games, and learn about prototyping and producing content for AR experiences with Reality Composer.
ARKit is the groundbreaking augmented reality (AR) platform for iOS that can transform how people connect with the world around them. Explore the state-of-the-art capabilities of ARKit 3 and discover the innovative foundation it provides for RealityKit. Learn how ARKit makes AR even more immersive through understanding of body position and movement for motion capture and people occlusion. Check out additions for multiple face tracking, collaborative session building, a coaching UI for on-boarding, and much more.
Gain a practical understanding of RealityKit capabilities by developing a game using its easy-to-learn API. Learn the recommended approach for loading assets, building a scene, applying animations, and handling game input. See how entities and components express the powerful elements of RealityKit while providing flexibility for customization. Find out how to take advantage of built-in networking and get details about extending the game into an immersive muliti-player experience.
Optimizing performance, memory, and bandwidth are important considerations for resource-intensive Metal apps and games. Learn key best practices to streamline your rendering and attain high frame rates. Understand powerful tools that can help you pinpoint expensive or unexpected GPU work. Dive into GPU capabilities that can yield performance gains and get expert guidance about using memory efficiently.
ARKit 3 enables a revolutionary capability for robust integration of real people into AR scenes. Learn how apps can use live motion capture to animate virtual characters or be applied to 2D and 3D simulation. See how People Occlusion enables even more immersive AR experiences by enabling virtual content to pass behind people in the real world.
Metal is the platform-optimized graphics and compute framework at the heart of GPU acceleration on Apple platforms. Learn key aspects of the Metal architecture that support the techniques for modern high-performance pro applications and workflows. Learn how to leverage Metal capabilities to optimize performance and maintain a steady frame rate in video editing pipelines. Understand how to leverage CPU and GPU parallelism, and dive into best practices for efficient data throughput.
Reality Composer is a tool that lets anyone quickly prototype and build AR scenes ready to integrate into apps or experience with AR Quick Look. Walk through the powerful and intuitive capabilities of Reality Composer and discover hundreds of ready-to-use virtual objects in its built-in AR library. See how easy it is to build animations and interactions to enrich your 3D content, and get details about integrating Reality files right into your apps.
With iOS 13, ARKit and RealityKit enable apps to establish shared AR experiences faster and easier than ever. Understand how collaborative sessions allow multiple devices to build a combined world map and share AR anchors and updates in real-time. Learn how to incorporate collaborative sessions into ARKit-based apps, then roll into SwiftStrike, an engaging and immersive multiplayer AR game built using RealityKit and Swift.
Metal is the modern foundation for GPU-accelerated graphics and compute on Apple platforms, superseding OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and OpenCL. Get introduced to the architecture and feature set of Metal and learn a step-by-step approach for transitioning OpenGL-based apps to the Metal API.
AR Quick Look is a built-in viewer for experiencing high-quality content in 3D and AR. See how integration with Reality Composer enables rich, interactive experiences to be displayed and shared more easily than ever before. Explore rendering improvements and multiple object viewing, then dive into the practical application of AR Quick Look in retail, education, and more.
Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) harness the massive parallelism of the GPU to dramatically accelerate calculations at the heart of modern ray tracing and ray casting techniques. Understand how MPS accelerates calculations for dynamic scenes, and dive into practical examples for implementing soft shadows, ambient occlusion, and global illumination. Learn how to enable hybrid rendering applications, and explore new techniques to extend your app across multiple GPUs.
Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) includes a highly tuned library of data parallel primitives vital to machine learning and leveraging the tremendous power of the GPU. With iOS 13 and macOS Catalina, MPS improves performance, enables more neural networks, and is now even easier to use. Learn more about these advances in MPS and gain a practical understanding of how to implement innovative techniques such as Style Transfer.
We are on a journey to continuously improve macOS security, with a particular focus on preventing malware and protecting user data. Join us on the next step and learn more about what’s new in Gatekeeper—for keeping malware out of macOS—as well as new protections that help keep users’ data and activity under their control.
One of the next steps in modernizing and improving the security and reliability of macOS is to provide a better architecture for kernel extensions and drivers. Learn how to make this transition with System Extensions and DriverKit.
Notarization is all about identifying and blocking malicious Mac software prior to distribution, without requiring App Review or the Mac App Store. Introduced last year and already widely adopted by Mac app developers, this is your opportunity to take an in depth tour of Notarization workflows and find out what’s new with the Notarization service.
Core ML 3 now enables support for advanced model types that were never before available in on-device machine learning. Learn how model personalization brings amazing personalization opportunities to your app. Gain a deeper understanding of strategies for linking models and improvements to Core ML tools used for conversion of existing models.
Location technologies are core to delivering context-based services within your app. Discover how the latest features in the Core Location Framework lay the groundwork for advanced ranging capabilities and delivers more options for you to clearly communicate your location needs to your users, and allow them to provide more granular access authorization to your app.
Sign In with Apple is the fast, easy way for people to sign in to apps using the Apple IDs they already have. Learn how easy it is to add a Sign In with Apple button to your app or website to acquire new customers and benefit from the built-in security, antifraud, and privacy that Sign In with Apple provides.
Background execution is a powerful tool your app can leverage to provide a great user experience. Learn about best practices to follow when running in the background, especially if you use VoIP or silent pushes, and an all-new scheduling API that enables long running processing and maintenance tasks.
Privacy is a more important issue than ever for your users. Learn about new features and privacy engineering techniques that can help you earn customer trust, create more personal experiences, and improve user engagement.
System frameworks encrypt both data at rest and data in transit in a transparent way for you. This functionality is available by simply setting an attribute. However you may want to do more to protect your users’ data. CryptoKit is a new Swift framework that makes it easier and safer than ever to perform cryptographic operations, whether you simply need to compute a hash or are implementing a more advanced authentication protocol.
Learn about what's new in file system technology, including changes to file system layout and imaging technologies. If you are affected by the new Read Only System Volume, this is a session you will not want to miss.
Combine is a unified declarative framework for processing values over time. Learn how it can simplify asynchronous code like networking, key value observing, notifications and callbacks. Hear about improvements to Foundation collections, performance, internationalization features and Swift integration.
Keep up with new and evolving networking protocols and standards by leveraging the modern networking frameworks on all Apple platforms and following best practices for efficiency and performance. In this session, learn about Low Data Mode, Combine in URLSession, WebSocket, and improvements to network mobility.
Take your networking apps to the next level with advances in Bonjour, custom message framing handlers, and the latest in security. You’ll also learn how to understand your networking performance by collecting metrics, and how best to use the modern networking frameworks on Apple platforms.
Learn about powerful new APIs in macOS that you can use to create apps that extend and customize the networking capabilities of macOS without using kernel extensions.
Learn how easy it is to add support for NFC in your app and take advantage of the newest capabilities such as NDEF writing and support for widely adopted native tag protocols.
Expand your knowledge of Combine, Apple's new unified, declarative framework for processing values over time. Learn about how to correctly handle errors, schedule work and integrate Combine into your app today.
Discover how to update your app’s interface for Dark Mode to create beautiful and accessible apps. Learn how refinements to modal sheets and the new contextual menu UI can help improve usability and lead to more powerful and efficient workflows. And, gain key insights into how you can create a great Mac experience with your iPad app.
Through stories, interviews, and artifacts we will uncover valuable design processes, techniques, and best practices of Apple Design Award winning apps and games.
Machine learning enables new experiences that understand what we say, suggest things that we may love, and allow us to express ourselves in new, rich ways. Machine learning can make existing experiences better by automating mundane tasks and improving the accuracy and speed of interactions. Learn how to incorporate ML experiences into your apps, and gain practical approaches to designing user interfaces that feel effortlessly helpful.
In order to build a great Shortcuts experience, it’s essential to understand the voice design philosophy, and the opportunities available to you to expose shortcuts to your customers. Walk through how to design and implement shortcuts, from the planning phase, through dialog flows, to how your shortcuts can be used with actions from other apps. Join us on a tour of design concepts and implementation tips to help make your shortcuts indispensable to your customers.
Learn how to adopt privacy-enhancing changes in Core Bluetooth. Discover new possibilities with LE 2Mbps, advertising extensions, BR/EDR, and dual-mode devices. Understand how to debug your Core Bluetooth communication with the improvements to PacketLogger.
