WWDC 2020 Session Notes
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Table of Contents
- (TO-DO) Expanding automation with the App Store Connect API
- (TO-DO) What's new in assessment
- Introducing Car Keys
- (TO-DO) Optimize the Core Image pipeline for your video app
- (TO-DO) Edit and play back HDR video with AVFoundation
- (TO-DO) Export HDR media in your app with AVFoundation
- (TO-DO) Author fragmented MPEG-4 content with AVAssetWriter
- (TO-DO) Discover ray tracing with Metal
- (TO-DO) Get to know Metal function pointers
- (TO-DO) Core Data: Sundries and maxims
- (TO-DO) App accessibility for Switch Control
- (TO-DO) Make your app visually accessible
- (TO-DO) Build Metal-based Core Image kernels with Xcode
- (TO-DO) Create a seamless speech experience in your apps
- Lists in UICollectionView
- Modern cell configuration
- Meet WidgetKit
- (TO-DO) Stacks, Grids, and Outlines in SwiftUI
- (TO-DO) Build SwiftUI views for widgets
- (TO-DO) Widgets Code-along, part 1: The adventure begins
- (TO-DO) Widgets Code-along, part 2: Alternate timelines
- (TO-DO) Widgets Code-along, part 3: Advancing timelines
- (TO-DO) App essentials in SwiftUI
- (TO-DO) Build document-based apps in SwiftUI
- Data Essentials in SwiftUI
- What's new in SwiftUI
- (TO-DO) Build SwiftUI apps for tvOS
- (TO-DO) Build an Action Classifier with Create ML
- (TO-DO) Advances in diffable data sources
- (TO-DO) Create complications for Apple Watch
- (TO-DO) Enable encrypted DNS
- (TO-DO) Build complications in SwiftUI
- (TO-DO) Keep your complications up to date
- Build with iOS pickers, menus and actions
- (TO-DO) Optimize the interface of your Mac Catalyst app
- (TO-DO) Identify trends with the Power and Performance API
- (TO-DO) Design high quality Siri media interactions
- (TO-DO) Expand your SiriKit Media Intents to more platforms
- (TO-DO) Background execution demystified
- (TO-DO) What's new in SiriKit and Shortcuts
- (TO-DO) Evaluate and optimize voice interaction for your app
- (TO-DO) Empower your intents
- (TO-DO) Decipher and deal with common Siri errors
- (TO-DO) Diagnose performance issues with the Xcode Organizer
- Eliminate animation hitches with XCTest
- Why is my app getting killed?
- (TO-DO) What's new in MetricKit
- (TO-DO) Integrate your app with Wind Down
- (TO-DO) Feature your actions in the Shortcuts app
- Design for intelligence: Apps, evolved
- (TO-DO) Design for intelligence: Make friends with "The System"
- Design for intelligence: Discover new opportunities
- (TO-DO) Discover Core Image debugging techniques
- (TO-DO) Decode ProRes with AVFoundation and VideoToolbox
- (TO-DO) Write tests to fail
- (TO-DO) Build for the iPadOS pointer
- (TO-DO) Handle trackpad and mouse input
- (TO-DO) The Push Notifications primer
- (TO-DO) Explore Packages and Projects with Xcode Playgrounds
- Advances in UICollectionView
- What's new in Universal Links
- (TO-DO) Explore the Action & Vision app
- Keynote ★
- (TO-DO) Meet Watch Face Sharing
- (TO-DO) Design great widgets
- (TO-DO) Adopt the new look of macOS
- (TO-DO) Build for iPad
- (TO-DO) Meet Scribble for iPad
- (TO-DO) What's new in PencilKit
- (TO-DO) Support hardware keyboards in your app
- (TO-DO) Support local network privacy in your app
- (TO-DO) Boost performance and security with modern networking
- (TO-DO) Build local push connectivity for restricted networks
- (TO-DO) iPad and iPhone apps on Apple Silicon Macs
- (TO-DO) AutoFill everywhere
- (TO-DO) VoiceOver efficiency with custom rotors
- (TO-DO) Accessibility design for Mac Catalyst
- (TO-DO) Create app clips for other businesses
- (TO-DO) Introduction to SwiftUI
- Streamline your app clip
- (TO-DO) Discover AppleSeed for IT and Managed Software Updates
- (TO-DO) Leverage enterprise identity and authentication
- (TO-DO) Build location-aware enterprise apps
- (TO-DO) Build scalable enterprise app suites
- (TO-DO) What's new in Mac Catalyst
- (TO-DO) Design for Game Center
- Configure and link your app clips
- Distribute binary frameworks as Swift packages
- (TO-DO) Inspect, modify, and construct PencilKit drawings
- (TO-DO) Structure your app for SwiftUI previews
- (TO-DO) What's new in CareKit
- (TO-DO) Use model deployment and security with Core ML
- (TO-DO) Get models on device using Core ML Converters
- (TO-DO) Control training in Create ML with Swift
- (TO-DO) Deliver a better HLS audio experience
- (TO-DO) Build an Endpoint Security app
- (TO-DO) Formatters: Make data human-friendly
- Design for location privacy
- (TO-DO) Advancements in the Objective-C runtime
- XCTSkip your tests
- Embrace Swift type inference
- (TO-DO) Safely manage pointers in Swift
- (TO-DO) Explore logging in Swift
- (TO-DO) Swift packages: Resources and localization
- What's new in Swift
- (TO-DO) What's new in watchOS design
- (TO-DO) Design great app clips
- (TO-DO) Get the most out of Sign in with Apple
- Explore app clips
- (TO-DO) The details of UI typography
- (TO-DO) Master Picture in Picture on tvOS
- What's new in HealthKit
- (TO-DO) Synchronize health data with HealthKit
- (TO-DO) Visually edit SwiftUI views
- (TO-DO) Discover WKWebView enhancements
- (TO-DO) Secure your app: threat modeling and anti-patterns
- (TO-DO) Create quick interactions with Shortcuts on watchOS
- (TO-DO) Add configuration and intelligence to your widgets
- (TO-DO) Broaden your reach with Siri Event Suggestions
- Platform State of the Union ★
- (TO-DO) Design for intelligence: Meet people where they are
- (TO-DO) Create great enterprise apps: A chat with Box's Aaron Levie
- (TO-DO) Design with iOS pickers, menus and actions
- (TO-DO) Design for iPad
- (TO-DO) SF Symbols 2
- (TO-DO) What's new in Core NFC
- (TO-DO) Modernize PCI and SCSI drivers with DriverKit
- (TO-DO) Port your Mac app to Apple Silicon
- (TO-DO) What's new in ResearchKit
- (TO-DO) Explore numerical computing in Swift
- (TO-DO) Build localization-friendly layouts using Xcode
- (TO-DO) Handle interruptions and alerts in UI tests
- Get your test results faster
- (TO-DO) Create custom apps for employees
- (TO-DO) Deploy Apple devices using zero-touch
- (TO-DO) Meet Audio Workgroups
- (TO-DO) Improve stream authoring with HLS Tools
- (TO-DO) Record stereo audio with AVAudioSession
- What's new in Low-Latency HLS
- (TO-DO) Discover HLS Blocking Preload Hints
- (TO-DO) Optimize live streams with HLS Playlist Delta Updates
- (TO-DO) Reduce latency with HLS Blocking Playlist Reload
- (TO-DO) Adapt ad insertion to Low-Latency HLS
- (TO-DO) The artist’s AR toolkit
- (TO-DO) Harness Apple GPUs with Metal
- (TO-DO) Optimize Metal apps and games with GPU counters
- (TO-DO) Shop online with AR Quick Look
- (TO-DO) Gain insights into your Metal app with Xcode 12
- Explore ARKit 4
- (TO-DO) What's new in RealityKit
- (TO-DO) What's new in USD
- (TO-DO) Advancements in Game Controllers
- (TO-DO) Build GPU binaries with Metal
- (TO-DO) Debug GPU-side errors in Metal
- (TO-DO) Bring keyboard and mouse gaming to iPad
- (TO-DO) Tap into Game Center: Dashboard, Access Point, and Profile
- (TO-DO) Tap into Game Center: Leaderboards, Achievements, and Multiplayer
- (TO-DO) Support performance-intensive apps and games
- (TO-DO) Bring your Metal app to Apple Silicon Macs
- (TO-DO) Optimize Metal Performance for Apple Silicon Macs
- (TO-DO) Capture and stream apps on the Mac with ReplayKit
- (TO-DO) Discover search suggestions for Apple TV
- Accelerate your app with CarPlay
- (TO-DO) What's new in streaming audio for Apple Watch
- (TO-DO) What's new in managing Apple devices
- (TO-DO) Design for the iPadOS pointer
- (TO-DO) Handle the Limited Photos Library in your app
- (TO-DO) Build Image and Video Style Transfer models in Create ML
- (TO-DO) Build a SwiftUI view in Swift Playgrounds
- (TO-DO) Use Swift on AWS Lambda with Xcode
- (TO-DO) Support multiple users in your tvOS app
- (TO-DO) What's new in Web Inspector
- (TO-DO) Become a Simulator expert
- (TO-DO) Unsafe Swift
- (TO-DO) Add custom views and modifiers to the Xcode Library
- (TO-DO) Sync a Core Data store with the CloudKit public database
- What's new in App Store Connect
- Meet the new Photos picker
- (TO-DO) Detect Body and Hand Pose with Vision
- (TO-DO) Create Swift Playgrounds content for iPad and Mac
- (TO-DO) Discover how to download and play HLS offline
- (TO-DO) Beyond counting steps
- (TO-DO) Make apps smarter with Natural Language
- (TO-DO) What's new in education
- (TO-DO) Introducing StoreKit Testing in Xcode
- (TO-DO) What's new in location
- (TO-DO) What’s new with in-app purchase
- What's new in Wallet and Apple Pay
- (TO-DO) What's new for web developers
- (TO-DO) Getting started with HealthKit
- (TO-DO) Meet Safari Web Extensions
- (TO-DO) One-tap account security upgrades
- (TO-DO) Custom app distribution with Apple Business Manager
- (TO-DO) Meet Nearby Interaction
- (TO-DO) Handling FHIR without getting burned
- (TO-DO) Meet Face ID and Touch ID for the web
- (TO-DO) Architecting for subscriptions
- (TO-DO) What's new in ClassKit
- (TO-DO) Explore Computer Vision APIs
- (TO-DO) Build trust through better privacy
- (TO-DO) Build customized ML models with the Metal Performance Shaders Graph
- (TO-DO) Refine Objective-C frameworks for Swift
- (TO-DO) Explore the new system architecture of Apple Silicon Macs
- (TO-DO) Triage test failures with XCTIssue
Expanding automation with the App Store Connect API
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10004
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeWhat's new in assessment
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10005
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeIntroducing Car Keys
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10006
Presenter: Matthias Lerch
- People can unlock, lock and start their car (iPhone or Apple Watch)
- Stored securely on the device and can be deleted via iCloud
- Keys can be shared with the family or friends
- Agnostic to radio technology (supports NFC so far)
- Offline capable
- Car needs to support:
- Owner pairing (association if iPhone and car)
- Prove ownership of car
- Initiate pairing
- Place iPhone near car's NFC reader
- Car key appears in Wallet
- Transactions (unlock, lock, start the car)
- NFC readers in door handle and dashboard (engine start)
- Optimized for security and performance
- Express mode lets the feature work without Face ID or passcode (turned on by default)
- iPhone and car can be offline
- Apple doesn't know when you use your car
- Server Interfaces (key sharing, key management)
- Share keys over Messages
- Car can be offline when sharing
- Apple doesn't know who you share your car key with
- Optional access levels (e.g. 'Unlock and Drive', 'Access and drive up to 65 mph')
- It's up to each auto maker to define access levels
- Owner pairing (association if iPhone and car)
- Key management
- Manage owner and shared keys from iPhone or car
- Keys removed from a device stop working immediately (even if the device is offline)
- Easy to change owner device (e.g. when buying a new iPhone)
- System architecture
- Fully integrated into iOS natively
- Keys created and stored in Secure Elements and never exported
- All features use AES and eliptic-curve cryptography
- Offline design based on PKI
- Automaker TSM (Trusted Service Manager) not required for simple server integration
- What is a digital car key?
- Binded to the user's device and not to Apple or auto makers
- Private key (SK) never leaves SE (Secure Element)
- Public key is exported in an X.509 certificate for verification
- Applet
- Implements the car key in the Secure Element
- Stores key pair, car public key, secure mailboxes
- All car keys hosted in a single applet instance
- Owner pairing flow (online)
- PAKE Verifier
- Pairing password
- Pairing
- Cryptographic linking
- Key activation/registration
- Key attestation
- Key sharing flow
- Owner sends invitation using Messages
- New key crated in
- Identity certificate chain
- Owner verification
- Attestation returned
- Offline registration
- Lifecycle of a car key
- Created during owner pairing or key sharing
- Transactions
- Suspensions
- Revocation
- Deletion
- Certificates and Transaction
- Owner sharing, key sharing, fast and standard transactions
- Take a deeper look at the presented flows and schemes at 11:30
- Radio technologies
- NFC
- Based on standard NFC reader
- Enhanced Contactless Protocol (ECP)
- Enables a fully automatic NFC experience
- Identifiers available before transaction starts (Reader type, Automaker)
- Efficient reader polling
- Ultra Wideband
- iPhone with U1 chip
- Use with iPhone in bag or pocket
- Common key management architecture
- Specification is currently in development
- NFC
- Server integration
- Required for remote key management
- Auto maker server needs to establish connection to Apple's backend (for each environment, e.g. testing and production)
- Exchange certificates
- Implement and test server interfaces (register a new key, revoke keys, send notifications)
- Provide artwork
- Connect to automaker app
- Automaker apps
- Provide custom features using keys stored in Wallet
- Start owner pairing
- Available to automakers
- Entitlement is required
- Use PassKit APIs
- How to get started (for auto makers)
- Car Connectivity Consortium
- Digital Key Specification 2.0
- Digital Key Specification 3.0 (in development, will support Ultra Wideband)
- carconnectivity.org
- Entroll to Apple MFi Program
Optimize the Core Image pipeline for your video app
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10008
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeEdit and play back HDR video with AVFoundation
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10009
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeExport HDR media in your app with AVFoundation
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10010
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeAuthor fragmented MPEG-4 content with AVAssetWriter
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10011
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeDiscover ray tracing with Metal
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10012
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeGet to know Metal function pointers
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10013
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeCore Data: Sundries and maxims
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10017
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeApp accessibility for Switch Control
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10019
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeMake your app visually accessible
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10020
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBuild Metal-based Core Image kernels with Xcode
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10021
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeCreate a seamless speech experience in your apps
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10022
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeLists in UICollectionView
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10026
Presenters: Michael Ochs
- Lists in iOS 14 Collection Views present
UITableView
-like appearances inUICollectionView
- Improved self-sizing support: now default when using lists in
UICollectionView
- Build cells with AutoLayout and let collection view take over
- Override
preferredLayoutAttributesFittingAttributes:
on cell subclasses to exercise manual sizing
- UICollectionLayoutListConfiguration
- The only new type required on the layout side to build lists in collection view
- Built on top of
NSCollectionLayoutSection
andUICollectionViewCompositionalLayout
: check out Advances in Collection View Layout - Adds two list-exclusive styles:
.sidebar
and.sidebarPlain
for building multicolumn apps on iPadOS 14 - Options to show/hide separators and configure list headers/footers
- Creating lists
- Easy way
- Create a
UICollectionLayoutListConfiguration
- Create a
UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout
with the configuration
- Create a
- Per-section setup
- Create a
UICollectionLayoutListConfiguration
- Create a
NSCollectionLayoutSection
with the configuration - Place the above code inside existing section provider initializer on compositional layout
- Customize the layout on a per section basis
- Create a
- Easy way
- Configuring list section headers/footers
- List headers/footers have to be explicitly enabled
- Register headers/footers as supplementary views
- Set header/footer configuration mode to 'supplementary'
- Provide a supplementary view when rendering the header/footer on screen
- Set
headerMode
tofirstItemInSection
(headers-only)- Configure the first collection view cell to look like a header
- Recommended for hierarchical data structures and snapshot APIs: check out Advances in Diffable Data Source
- Data source need to be aware of first cell being header
- Register headers/footers as supplementary views
- List headers/footers have to be explicitly enabled
- UICollectionViewListCell
- Subclass of
UICollectionViewCell
, can be used interchangeably - Better support to configure separator insets and cell content indentations
- Features Swipe Actions
- Better accessories API
- Granted access to default system content/background configurations: check out Modern Cell Configuration
- Subclass of
- Separator Layout Guide
- Separators are supposed to line up with primary cell content
- Constrain this layout guide to the content: opposite of UIKit layout guides
- Configure the cell's layout
- Constrain the separator layout guide's leading anchor to cell's primary content's leading anchor
- Automatically handled when using system provided content configurations
- Swipe Actions
- Only supported if the cell is rendered inside sections configured using a list configuration
- Override the leading/trailing swipe action's configuration getter to configure
- Caution: never capture the index path (unstable) of the cell being configured in action handler
- Directly capture the data model
- Capture a stable identifier of the cell:
- Diffable Data Source and its stable item identifier
- The new cell registration type in iOS 14: UICollectionViewListCell
- Accessories API of list cells
- Options to configure both leading and trailing side of the cell
- Configure multiple accessories on the same side
- Functionalities on list cell accessories
- Re-ordering accessory: cell is automatically in re-rodering mode when tapped
- Delete accessory: cell automatically reveals configured trailing swipe actions when tapped
- Outline disclosure accessory
- Cell automatically communicate with the data source and expand/collapse its children when tapped
- Requires the new section snapshot APIs: check out Advances in Diffable Data Source
- Plenty of system defaults are provided while customizabilities are kept
Modern cell configuration
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10027
Presenter: Tylor Fox
- Getting started with configurations
- In iOS 13, we use the built-in imageView and textLabel properties on
UITableViewCell
to display an image and some text. - In iOS 14, we use the content configuration to describe the cell appearance for a specific state
- This is how you configure a cell using a content configuration:
var content = cell.defaultContentConfiguration()
This always returns a fresh configuration without any content set on it. Don't need to think about the old state at all.- Set the image and text on the content configuration.
cell.contentConfiguration = content
As soon as we call this, the cell is updated to display the image and text that we specified.
- Same code to configure any cell and any view that supports content configurations.
- Composable, lightweight, very inexpensive to create and built for performance
- In iOS 13, we use the built-in imageView and textLabel properties on
- Configuration types
- Background Configuration
- let you set things such as background color, visual effect, stroke, insets, corner radius and custom view
- List Content Configuration
- let you set things such as image, text, secondary text, layout metrics and behaviors
- Background Configuration
- Configuration state
- Configuration state represents the various inputs that you use to configure your cells and views.
- Each cell, header and footer has its own configuration state.
- Two Types
- View configuration state
- Trait collection
- 4 states: highlighted, selected, disabled and focused
- Custom state: this is key-value storage to add any extra states or data that use to configuring your view.
- Cell configuration state
- Everything from the View configuration state
- Editing, swiped, expanded
- Drag and drop states
- View configuration state
- When
automaticallyUpdatesContentConfiguration
is true, The cell automatically callsupdated(for:)
on its contentConfiguration when the cell’s configurationState changes, and applies the updated configuration back to the cell. The default value is true. - When
automaticallyUpdatesBackgroundConfiguration
is true, the cell automatically callsupdated(for:)
on its backgroundConfiguration when the cell’s configurationState changes, and applies the updated configuration back to the cell. The default value is true. - You can override
updateConfiguration(using:)
to manually update and customize the content configuration, disable automatic updates by setting this property to false. This method is called before your cell first displays and will be called anytime the configuration state have changed.
Meet WidgetKit
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10028
Presenters: Nahir Khan, Neil Desai
- Widgets are now used across all platforms
- Great widgets are glancable, relevant and personalized
- Smart stacks are collections of widgets and automatically show the right one on top using on-device intelligence
- Widgets support configuration by tapping them - this is realized using intents similar to SiriKit
- e.g. choosing the city in a Weather app
- UI built entirely in SwiftUI
- How WidgetKit works
- WidgetKit extensions are background extensions
- They return a series of view hierarchies in a time line
- Time line is sent to the home screen which presents the right view at the right time
- Since views are "ready" they can be re-used at different points in the system, e.g. the Widget Gallery
- Time line is refreshed from main app and updates are scheduled by extension
- Imagine the Calendar time line for the day. One event is updated from Calendar, which then wakes up the extension and provides the new time line.
- Building a Widget
- Single Widget Extension supports multiple kinds of widgets on different platforms
- Possible configurations:
Static
(Workout widget) orIntent-Based
(Reminder widget that can be personalized) - Supported Families: A widget can enable one or many of the following families:
systemSmall
,systemMedium
,systemLarge
- Widget struct must conform to
Widget
and its body toWidgetConfiguration
- How to build a glancable experience
- Widgets are not mini apps they rather project content on the home screen
- No scrolling
- No videos or animated images
- Tap interactions to deep link into main app. Widget associable with a URL link using the widgetURL API (use the new Link API of SwiftUI)
- Important new view types:
Placeholder
- Should not contain user data
- Great placeholder UIs show a representation of what kind your data is
Snapshot
- Represent a single entry in time
- Should return a view as quickly as possible
- Used to display your widget in the gallery
- Use it as the first entry in your time line so users get what they see in the gallery
Time line
- Combination of views and dates
- Output if WidgetKit extension is serialized to disk which enabled rendering of individual entries just in time
- Reloads
- Wake up the extension and ask for a new time line
- Help to ensure that content is up to date
- Get a
TimelineProvider
bystruct Provider: TimelineProvider
- Implement
func snapshot(...)
andfunc timeline(...)
for returning the respective data - Provide a reload policy at Time line cretion time to tell when the time line should be reloaded:
atEnd
,after(date: Date)
,never
- Implement
- System determines the best time to reload the widget, e.g. based on:
- Background notification
- Significant time change
- Changes in the app made by the user, e.g. new Calendar entry
- Use
WidgetCenter.[reloadTimelines(ofKind:), reloadAllTimelined]
to programmatically reload time lines - Get current configurations with
WidgetCenter.getCurrentConfigurations(completion:)
- Use batch requests
- Do not overuse networking from a widget
- Use
onBackgroundURLSessionEvents
modifier to launch a network task which delivers the result to your extension- Reloads are budgeted by the system, do not overuse them
- Personalization
- Use the
Intents
framework, known from Siri, to customize the widgets behavior - Use the new In-App Intent Handling to answer requests from your widget
IntentConfiguration
is used to power intent-based widget configurationsIntentTimelineProvider
is used to generate specific time lines
- Use the
- Intelligence
- Widgets are displayed on the home screen by on-device intelligence
- Your app can donate shortcuts
- Widget extension can annotate time line entries using
TimelineEntryRelevance
with its score and duration properties
Stacks, Grids, and Outlines in SwiftUI
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10031
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBuild SwiftUI views for widgets
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10033
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeWidgets Code-along, part 1: The adventure begins
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10034
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeWidgets Code-along, part 2: Alternate timelines
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10035
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeWidgets Code-along, part 3: Advancing timelines
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10036
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeApp essentials in SwiftUI
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10037
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBuild document-based apps in SwiftUI
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10039
Presenters: Example Guy, Another Person
CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeData Essentials in SwiftUI
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10040
Presenters: Curt Clifton, Luca Bernardi, Raj Ramamurthy
- Getting Started
- Always ask you the following questions:
- What data does my view need?
- How will the view manipulate this date?
- Where will the data come from?
- Immutable views, that just display data, contain only let properties
- Pull multiple properties in their own config object
- The config object can contain functions to mutate its state
- Using
@State private var config: ConfigObject()
to re-render your view afterconfig
changed - Let parent and sub views communicate over a single config object by sharing it using
@Binding var config
- Pass
config
down by marking the it as reference using the dollar symbol:SubView(config: $config)
- Always ask you the following questions:
- Modeling Data Using ObservableObject
- Class-constrained protocol (only adoptable by reference types)
- Can be used to achieve super-custom behaviors, e.g. backing data by a service or server
- Conform by implementing
var objectWillChange: Self.ObjectWillChangePublisher { get }
- Use to manage data life cycle, handle side-effects, integrate with existing components
- Will be your source of truth
- Doesn't need to be your full data model - split into multiple observable objects if your model is complex
- Use a single ObservableObject for all your views if your data model is simple
- Mark properties of your ObservableObject, your view is interested in as
@Published var progress: Double
- How to create an ObservableObject dependency?
@ObservedObject
@ObservedObject var config: Configuration
- You need to manage the objects ownership outside of your view
- Create a binding to any value-type property of the ObservableObject to pass it into e.g.
$config.isFinished
aToggle
control and let it automatically update your view
@StateObject
- SwiftUI owns the ObservableObject
- Creation/destruction is tied to view's life cycle
- Instantiated just before body runs
- Use it to implement e.g. an
ImageLoader: ObservableObject
with a@published var image: Image
property - Whenever
@StateObject
changes the view is re-rendered and thus populated with the image
EnvironmentObject
- In SwiftUI you typically have a hierarchy of many modular sub views
- To avoid a lot of boilerplate by passing around ObservableObject's pass it to
.environmentObject(...)
on your root view - Changes to it, from any view in the hierarchy, will be reflected in any other view
- SwiftUI Performance Considerations
- Avoid slow view updates
- Make view initializers cheap, e.g. no dispatches
- Make body a pure function
- Avoid assumptions
- New event sources:
onChange
,onOpenURL
,onContinueUserActivity
- run on main thread
- Avoid slow view updates
- Who owns the data?
- Share data in a common ancestor
- Leverage
@StateObject
- Consider placing global data in
App
and pass it down the view hierarchy. Changes to it will re-render all scenes (instances/windows) of your app - New 2020: Property Wrappers that offer data persistence across app restarts and can be used as source of truth
@SceneStorage
- Per-scene property wrapper for reading/writing data managed by SwiftUI
- Light-weight storage for your views data
- Use it to populate your collection views
@AppStorage
- App-scoped global storage, persisted using
UserDefaults
, usable anywhere (app/view) - Perfect for storing settings
@AppStorage("amountOfGold") private var amountOfGold = 5000
- Automatically reads/writes from/to UserDefaults whenever the property changes
- App-scoped global storage, persisted using
What's new in SwiftUI
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10041
Presenters: Matt Ricketson, Taylor Kelly
- Apps
- Bild your whole app using SwiftUI:
struct BookClubApp: App
- Apps can declare data dependencies
- Use
WindowGroup
to manage windows platform independent. Supports multiple windows on macOS and iPadOS out of the bos - Use
Settings
to get a preference pane for free • available on macOS - Use
DocumentGroup
scene type to automatically handle opening, saving and editing documents • macOS, iOS, iPadOS - Use
CommandMenu
command to add additional menus to the menu bar including keyboard shortcuts - New multi-platform templates specifically for SwiftUI apps
LaunchScreen
Info.plist key to configure your launch screen • simple alternative to the storyboard
- Bild your whole app using SwiftUI:
- Widgets
- iOS, iPadOS, macOS exclusively built using SwiftUI
- Declared by
struct YourWidget: Widget
andvar body: some WidgetConfiguration
- Use SwiftUI to build custom complications for watchOS
- Lists and Collections
- List now receive outlines to quickly access the lists content • reduces the need for push/pop navigation patterns
- Lazy loading grid layouts (
Lazy[V|H]Stack
) to reduce memory footprint and preserve smooth scrolling for large amounts of data - View Builder for switch statements to show e.g. different image styles in a list of images
- Toolbars and Controls
.toolbar
modifier for unified display of toolbars- Use
ToolbarItem(placement: .principal)
to make an item prominent - Use
ToolbarItem(placement: .bottomBar)
to place an item in the bottom bar - When using
Label("Title", systemImage: "sf.symbol.name")
SwiftUI automatically display icon and/or text depending on where the label is displayed: toolbar, list, ... .keyboardShortcut
modifier can now be used for additional controls likeButton
- New default focus support in tvOS
- New controls:
ProgressView("Downloading", value: progress)
- horizontal barProgressView("Downloading", value: progress).progressViewStyle(CircularViewStyle())
- circular progress indicatorProgressView()
- spinnerGauge
to indicate the level of value • can contain value labels and min/max value labels
- New effects and styling
- New control center UI with beautiful transitions
.matchedGeometryEffect
to provide smooth animations inside of a grid of UI elements.clipShape(ContainerRelativeShape())
to automatically apply a super views shape to the subview- custom fonts automatically scaled with dynamic type changes
- Custom accent color directly form the AssetCatalog on all platforms
- Many controls can now be tinted
- System integration
- New
Link
control to display URLs in link style and open them with the default browser • also supports url schemes to open other apps @Environment(\.openURL) private var openURL
to programmatically open urls viaopenURL(url)
in your viewsonDrag {}
andonDrop {}
to support drag & dropUniformTypeIdentifers
framework for e.g. introspection of file typesSign in with Apple
as first class component in SwiftUI • available on every platform- Other Frameworks: AuthenticationServices, AVKit, MapKit, SceneKit, SpriteKit
- New
Build SwiftUI apps for tvOS
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10042
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10043
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10045
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10046
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10047
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10048
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10049
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBuild with iOS pickers, menus and actions
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10052
Presenters: Eric Dudiac, David Duncan
- UISlider and UIProgressView: More consistent across platforms now
- UIActivityIndicatorView: New simpler design, Use color API and modern styles, Updates "pull-to-refresh"
- UIPickerView: Updated styling
- UIPageControl
- New interactions (scrubbing, scrolling)
- Unlimited pages
- Optional custom indicator icons:
.preferredIndicatorImage(UIImage())
to set all or.setIndicatorImage(UIImage(), forPage: 0)
for a specific image - Multiple styles:
.backgroundStyle = .prominent
to highlight the background
- UIColorPickerViewController
- New view controller for picking colors
- Eyedropper, Favorites, Hex specification
- UIDatePicker
- New compact style to select date and time
- In-line style on iOS - great for iPad or if date picking is primary UI (matches modal presentation)
- Useful when you have space constraints
- Full modal calendar when selecting dates
- Keyboard for selecting times
- New macOS style (10.15.4)
- Compact, modal calendar presentation
- Supported in Catalyst apps
- Menus
- Provided on
UIControl
- Directly supported by UIButton and UIBarButtonItem by
button.menu = UIMenu(...)
- Triggered via long-press by default
- Show the menu by a simple tap by setting
button.showsMenuAsPrimaryAction = true
and don't provide a primary action - Back buttons implement menus to quickly jump back in navigation stack
- Take action when the menu action is recognized, register for
UIControl.Event.menuActionTriggered
UIDeferredMenuElement
to async provide menu itemsUIContextMenuInteraction
to modify or replace provided menuupdateVisibleMenu(_ block menu: (UIMenu) -> UIMenu)
- Use
UIContextMenuInteraction.rich
to display previews and.compact
to only show a menu
- Use
- New
UIBarButtonItem
initializersinit(systemItem:primaryAction:menu:)
,init(title:image:primaryAction:menu:)
- New
UIBarButtonItem
.fixedSpace()
and.flexibleSpace
UIButton
can finally be initialized using anUIAction
:init(type:primaryAction:)
-> native block based APIUISegmentedControls
can now finally be initialized usingUIActions
-> native block based API
- Provided on
Optimize the interface of your Mac Catalyst app
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10056
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10057
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10060
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10061
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10063
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10068
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10071
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10073
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10074
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10076
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeEliminate animation hitches with XCTest
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10077
Presenter: Tanuja Mohan
- Hitch: A frame appears on screen later than expected
- VSYNC: Time the screen swaps the frame onto the display
- Hitch time: Time in ms that a frame is late to display
- Hitch ratio: Hitch time in ms per second for a given duration
- Apple doesn't use frames per second (fps) since:
- 60 or 120 fps is not always the desired target
- Display may intentionally not be updated
- Target frame rate may intentionally be lower than possible
- Hitch ratio is always comparable across tests, following ratios are recommended:
- Good: < 5ms/s
- Warning: 5..10ms/s - users will start recognizing hitches
- Critical: >10ms/s
- Can be measured using
XCTestMetrics
and unit tests or for production apps usingMetricsKit
and Xcode Organizer XCTOSSignpostMetric
gives you the following when using an animation os_signpost interval:- Duration
- Total count of hitches
- Total duration of hitches
- Hitch time ratio
- Frame rate
- Frame count
- Specify an animation os_signpost interval by:
os_signpost(.animationBegin, log: logHandle, name: "performanceAnimationInterval")
os_signpost(.end, log: logHandle, name: "performanceAnimationInterval")
- UIKit has pre-defined metrics:
XCTOSSignpostMetric.navigationTransitionMetric
XCTOSSignpostMetric.customNavigationTransitionMetric
XCTOSSignpostMetric.scrollDecelerationMetric
XCTOSSignpostMetric.scrollDraggingMetric
- Application state can be reset to avoid tests influencing themselves:
XCTMeasureOptions().invocationOptions = [.manualStop]
- Listen to a live testing session at 8:15
Why is my app getting killed?
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10078
Presenter: Andy Aude
- Most common reasons why apps can be terminated in the background
- Crash
- Segmentation fault
- Illegal instruction
- Asserts and uncaught exceptions
- CPU resource limit
- High sustained CPU load in background
- Energy Exception Report
- Xcode Organizer
MXCPUExceptionDiagnostic
- Reports contain call stack points out hotspots in code
- Consider moving work into
BGProcessingTask
- Watchdog
- Long hang during key app transitions
application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:)
applicationDidEnterBackground(_:)
applicationWillEnterForeground(_:)
- These transitions have a time limit on the order of 20 seconds
- Terminations are disabled in Simulator and in the Debugger
- Eliminate deadlocks, infinite loops, synchronous work
- Report available via
MXCrashDiagnostic
- Long hang during key app transitions
- Memory limit exceeded
- App using too much memory
- Same limit for foreground and background
- Use Instruments and Memory Debugger
- Keep in mind older devices
- Memory pressure exit (jetsam)
- Not a bug with your app
- Most common termination
- System freeing up memory for active applications
- Reducing jetsame rate
- Aim for less than 50MB in background
- Upon background flush state to disk, clear out image views, drop caches
- Recovering from jetsame
- Save state upon entering background
- Adopt UIKit State Restoration
- User should not realize app was terminated
- Background task timeout
UIApplication.beginBackgroundTask(expirationHandler:)
UIApplication.endBackgroundTask(_:)
- Failure to end the task explicitly result in termination
- Counts exposed via
MXBackgroundExitData
- Preventable
- Use the named variant of the UIKit API
beginBackgroundTask(withName:expirationHandler:)
- Terminations do not occur in Debugger
- New console message in iOS 13.4 (Background Task DatabaseTransaction was created over 30 seconds ago. In Applications running in the background, this creates a risk of termination. Remember to call
endBackgroundTask
for your task in a timely manner to avoid this.)
- Use the named variant of the UIKit API
- Expiration handler
- Implement an
expirationHandler
- Call
endBackgroundTask(_:)
inside the handler - Do not begin new work
- Do not rely on it exclusively
- Add telemetry at the start and end of each expiration handler
- Inspect
MXMetricPayload
- Implement an
- Check
backgroundTimeRemaining
- Only start work if plenty of time remains
- Unsafe to begin tasks with < 5 seconds remaining
- Avoid leaking
UIBackgroundTaskIdentifier
- Crash
- New MetricKit API (iOS 14)
MXBackgroundExitData
shows how often these terminations happen providing counts of each termination typecumulativeBadAccessExitCount
cumulativeIllegalInstructionExitCount
cumulativeAbnormalExitCount
cumulativeMemoryResourceLimitExitCount
cumulativeMemoryPressureExitCount
cumulativeSuspendedWithLockedFileExitCount
cumulativeAppWatchdogExitCount
cumulativeBackgroundTaskAssertionTimeoutExitCount
cumulativeNormalExitCount
- Crash reporting via MetricKit
- Diagnostics on a per-device basis
- Ability to get crash info programmatically directly from the device
MXCrashDiagnostic
- Stack trace
- Signal
- Exception code
- Termination reason
- Check out What's New in MetricKit to get detailed information
- How to improve multi-tasking experience?
- Identify and fix terminations
- Reduce memory usage
- Implement state restoration
What's new in MetricKit
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10081
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10083
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10084
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10086
Presenter: Mark Mikin
- This is one of those "why" sessions. Why we should build something?
- Intelligent System Experience
- The main idea is to be proactive
- Intelligence is how the OS works with the apps that people use every day to make the "every day" easier for people
- Intelligence is design (it should be viewed as a design practice)
- Living design. What is that?
- The core job of the designer is to help people accomplish something
- One of the key ways a designer can leverage this is by using elements familiar to the user
- People use a signifier or a symbol
- For example, "Share" button. In the case of iOS, almost everyone can easily recognize the "default" share symbol because it consistently gets used across a lot of apps
- Intelligence is a platform convention, it's in a static glyph or icon, like the share button. It's live
- Intelligence manifests itself by adapting to how the system, the platform, conforms to how people use their devices
- Intelligence is expected (people expect their devices and apps to be smart)
- Extensibility
- Intelligence is powered by an app through extensibility
- Apps have actually been evolving over time
- A lot of the technologies built by Apple that are foundational to the intelligence system (starting from App Extensions debuted at WWDC 2014 and ending with App Clips so far)
- It's built to help growing ecosystem of devices and apps
- Intelligence system is built from a foundation of respecting users privacy
- In the next sessions about system intelligence, Apple's team will try to cover it from a few different angles
Design for intelligence: Make friends with "The System"
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10087
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10088
Presenters: JP Lacerda
- Intelligence
- Goal to make your Apple products knowing/understanding you
- Achieve and Discover more, Less tedium, Fewer distraction
- System helps you through suggestions from Siri, Shortcuts, Suggestions, Widgets
- Siri / Shortcuts
- Helps you getting things done by a single tap or asking Siri
- Helps you setting up simple and complex operations ran, e.g. just by your voice
- View shortcuts through the new Siri suggestion Widget displayed just at the right time to you using the new smart stack and on-device intelligence
- Siri suggestions automatically appear at the right place and time, e.g. restaurant reservations are added automatically to the calendar
- Siri can remind you when it's time to leave right on your lock screen
- Get Siri suggestions in Maps to e.g. conveniently find your way to the Airport
- Privacy / Analytics
- Apple chose opt-in to enable analytics on your device to help improve their intelligence services
- Examples
- 82% of all notification-based check-ins come from suggestions (data from some Airline apps)
- Apps are visible on average 5x more per day via lock screen, sharing suggestion, search or other entry points
- Give your app superpowers
- Think about which entry points are suitable for your app
- Consider how you can measure the impact of intelligence on your app
- Understand intelligence from the users perspective
Discover Core Image debugging techniques
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10089
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10091
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10093
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10094
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10095
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10096
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10097
Presenters: Steve Breen
- Diffable Data Source
- Recap
UICollectionView
was first released in iOS 6UICollectionView
was built on the separation of concerns between the data, or the "what"; from the layout, the "where" content is being rendered.- For layout, an abstract class is
UICollectionViewLayout
, and a concrete subclass isUICollectionViewFlowLayout
. - For the presentation, there are
UICollectionViewCell
andUICollectionReusableView
. - In iOS 13, there are two new components for Data and Layout respectively with Diffable Data Source and Compositional Layout.
- Section snapshot [New in iOS 14]
- Allow data sources to be more composable into section-sized chunks of data.
- Allow modeling of hierarchical data, which is needed to support rendering outline-style UIs.
- Recap
- Compositional Layout
- Recap
- Compositional Layout was introduced in iOS 13
- Allows us to build rich, complex layouts by composing smaller, easy-to-reason bits of layout together.
- Describes what the layout to look like instead of how the layout ought to work.
- Section-specific layouts to help you build more sophisticated UIs
- Support for orthogonal scrolling sections.
- Recap
- Lists [New in iOS 14]
UITableView
-like sections right in to anyUICollectionView
.- Rich with features you've come to expect from
UITableView
, like swipe actions and many common cell layouts. - Easily mix and match Lists with other kinds of layout on a per-section basis.
- Concrete
UICollectionViewListCell
, header and footer support - New Sidebar appearance we see in many iPadOS system apps.
- Modern Cells
- Cell registrations
- Simple, reusable way to set up a cell from a view model.
- Eliminate the extra step of registering a cell class or nib to associate it with a reuse identifier.
- Use a generic registration type which incorporates a configuration closure for setting up a new cell from a view model.
- Cell content configurations.
- Standardized layouts for cells similar to what is seen in
UITableView
standard cell types. - Can be used with any cell, or even a generic UIView.
- Standardized layouts for cells similar to what is seen in
- Background configurations.
- Similar to content configurations but apply to any cell's background with the ability to adjust properties such as color, border styles and more.
- Cell registrations
What's new in Universal Links
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10098
Presenter: Christopher Linn
- Universal Links
- HTTPS URLs that represent your content both on the web and in your app
- Allow to open your app instead of browser
- Enable by adding an entitlement to your app and a JSON file to your web server - creates secure association between both
- Custom URL schemes not recommended anymore - switch as soon as possible
- Support for watchOS
- Same functionalities like on iOS, tvOS and macOS
- Apply entitlement to your WatchKit extension - not your WatchKit App
- Use
[WKExtensionDelegate.handle(_ userActivity: NSUserActivity) -> Void](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/watchkit/wkextensiondelegate/2798966-handle)
to handle Universal Links - Use
[WKExtension.shared().openSystemURL(url)](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/watchkit/wkextension/1628224-opensystemurl)
to open Universal Links in other apps - Different API on iOS (UIKit) and macOS (AppKit)
- Universal Links in SwiftUI
- Now it is possible to handle Universal Links equally on all platforms
- Handle Universal Links using
.onOpenURL { url in /* ... */ }
- Open Universal Links in other apps using
@Environment (\.openURL) var openURL; let url = /* ... */; openURL(url)
- Enhanced Pattern Matching
*
matches zero or more characters greedily?
matches any one character*?
matches at least one character"components": [{ "/": "/sourdough/?*", "caseSensitive": false }]
for case-insensitive pattern matching (macOS Catalina 10.15.5 and iOS 13.5)"components": [{ "/": "/中國哲學書電子化計劃/?*", "percentEncoded": false }]
for Unicode pattern matching (macOS Big Sur and iOS 14)"defaults": { "percentEncoded": false, "caseSensitive": false }
to specify defaults for all components (macOS Big Sur and iOS 14)- Apply
defaults
to "details" (includes app IDs and components) or only to "components" to match all elements of the respective arrays
- Apply
- Substitution Variables
- Named lists of substrings to match against
- Names can contain anything but
$
,(
,)
- Names are always case sensitive in patterns
- Values can contain
?
and*
but no other substitution variables - Values are case-sensitive by default
- Available today in macOS Catalina 10.15.6 and iOS 13.5
- Predefined Substitution Variables
$(alpha)* - match upper and lower case letters
$(upper),$(lower)* - match either upper or lower case letters
$(alnum)* - match upper and lower case letters including digits
$(digit),$(xdigit)* - match either digits or hexadecimal digits
$(region)** - match every ISO region code defined by Foundation: Locale.isoRegionCodes
$(lang)** - match every ISO language code defined by Foundation: Locale.isoLanguageCodes
- Use
"exclude": true
to exclude specific patterns - Substitution variables can be used to form different combinations of patterns, e.g. show different menus for different countries
- Example
{ "appLinks": { "substitutionVariables": { "food": [ "burrito", "sushi" ], "Canadian food": [ "burrito", "poutine", "tête-de-violon" ] }, "details": [{ "appIDs": [ "ABCDEF.com..example.restaurant" ], "components": [ { "/": "$(lang)_CA/$(Canadian food)/", "percentEncoded": false } { "/": "$(lang)_CA/$(food)/", "exclude": true } { "/": "$(lang)_$(region)/$(food)/" } ] }] } }
- Universal Links Workflow
- After download of an app the system checks its entitlements to see if it needs any app-association files, and downloads them
- App association files can now be downloaded in parallel by connecting to an Apple CDN instead of opening one connection per downloaded app
- CDN is dedicated to associated domains
- CDN uses single HTTP/2 connection for all associated domains on a device
- CDN Reduces load on your server
- CDN routes devices to a known-good, known-fast connection
- Alternate Modes for internal domains not reachable from an Apple CDN
- Managed Mode when distributing within your organization (see What's New in Managing Apple Devices (WWDC20))
- System trusted root certificate
- MDN admin must opt-in
- Works using any profile
- Developer Mode when building your app
- Use any SSL certificate
- User must opt-in from
iOS Settings > Developer > Associated Domains Development
or for macOS using the commandswcutil developer-mode -e true
- Only works using a development profile
- Server path for all modes:
https://example.com/.well-known/apple-app-site-association
- Specify domains for different modes in the entitlements as
<string>applinks:testing.example.com?mode=developer</string>
(or?mode=managed
or?mode=developer+managed
) in an array under the keycom.apple.developer.associated-domains
- Managed Mode when distributing within your organization (see What's New in Managing Apple Devices (WWDC20))
Explore the Action & Vision app
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10099
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- App Library
- Automatically created at the end of your app pages on the Home Screen
- Makes it easier than ever to get to your apps
- Widgets on Home Screen
- Richer UI - more possibilities
- Different sizes to choose one that best fits your needs
- Droppable on the home screen
- Widget gallery to explore all widgets
- SmartStack as intelligent assistant which enables you to scroll through your widgets
- Picture in Picture on iPhone
- Swipe to the side, out of the screen, and audio keeps playing
- Video keeps playing when switching apps
- Siri
- Got smarter and has a new interface which doesn't block your UI anymore
- Can now send audio messages using the messages app - completely hands free
- Translate as new app of offline conversation translate
- Conversation mode when switching to landscape mode in the app
- Messages
- Pinning messages to the top of the screen
- Memoji gets hundreds of new options to customize your avatar, including masts, fist-pumps and more
- Group conversations got some
❤️ by adding inline replies and most-active member widget
- Maps
- More countries like UK, Ireland and Canada
- It gets easier to find places you love and how you get there in an ecological way
- Maps offers Guides that help you discover great new places
- Brand new cycling option to reduce your carbon footprint
- EV-Routing option to optimize your route for electric cars - e.g. by selecting routes with charging station on your way
- CarPlay
- New wallpaper option
- New categories for CarPlay apps: Parking, EV-Charging, and Quick-Food ordering
- Car Key API - first supported by BMW - enable open/close/start your car
- App Clips as small, fast parts of an app, designed for speed
- A way to discover what the App Store has to offer
- Launchable from the web, by NFC tags, QR codes or the brand new Apple designed tags
- Needs to be smaller than 10 MB
- Use Sign in With Apple to provide the most seamless app experience
- Use Apply Pay to allow quick payments
- Option to download the full app
- iPadOS
- Photos app gets an all new side bar - new way to navigate and organize your photos
- Incoming calls become unobtrusive using notification style UI (available for all apps: WhatsApp, Skype, ...) • available for iOS too
- New searching experience
- Apple Pencil
- Scribble lets you hand-write in any text field. iOS converts your writing then to text
- Smart Selection lets you select single words / characters you've written using your pencil using iOS text recognition features
- DataDetectors are used to automatically detect e.g. phone numbers, email addresses
- AirPods
- are now able to automatically switch to new incoming audio sources
- Spatial Audio for AirPods Pro (AirPods Motion API) to emulate movie theatre experience using AirPods gyroscope to sync the sound to your head position/orientation
- watchOS 7
- Configure your own watch faces styled by your current living style
- Watch faces can now be shared on Websites or via the usual sharing features of watchOS
- Workout app adds dance, cooldown, functional training and more workouts plus it is renamed to Fitness
- Sleep Tracking is a new app that helps you to get to bed at time using
Wind Down
which dims all distractions (also available in iPhone) - Handwashing detection to make sure you wash as long as you're supposed to (20 seconds shown in demo)
- Privacy Improvements
- Location only share rough location
- Camera ...
- Tracking Control require apps to ask before tracking
- App Privacy makes data tracked by developers visible to the users before they download the app
- Home
- Alliance among different manufacturers to make smart home devices even better
- Adaptive lighting to auto-adjust color temperature throughout the day
- Cameras get activity zones, richer notifications
- Face recognition extends to Home Pod
- Camera content can be displayed on TV via your Apple TV
- Apple TV
- Picture in Picture
- Better Airplay in full 4K
- Apple TV+ already on over 1 billion devices
- Foundation as newest production only available on Apple TV+
- macOS Big Sur
- use of a lot of translucency
- Design refresh for all system apps
- New side and compact, space efficient toolbars
- Control center now on the mac
- Notification Center
- Notification grouping
- iOS widgets also available on the mac
- Messages with new search, photo picker, messages effects, pin conversations, inline replies and more
- Maps with indoor-maps, favorites, ETA from friends and all of it implemented using Catalyst
- Safari with 50% faster page loading, Privacy Report via toolbar button, Web Extensions API, built-in translation
- Mac
- Processor-transition to Apple Silicon - Apple's own processor line - bye bye Intel
👋 - Universal 2 is the new universal binary type that contains binaries compiled for both architectures
- Rosetta 2 lets existing app run on new architectures from day one by making them compatible at installation time
- Supports iPhone and iPad apps directly
- Processor-transition to Apple Silicon - Apple's own processor line - bye bye Intel
Meet Watch Face Sharing
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10100
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeDesign great widgets
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10103
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeAdopt the new look of macOS
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10104
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBuild for iPad
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10105
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeMeet Scribble for iPad
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10106
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeWhat's new in PencilKit
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10107
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeSupport hardware keyboards in your app
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10109
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeSupport local network privacy in your app
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10110
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBoost performance and security with modern networking
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10111
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBuild local push connectivity for restricted networks
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10113
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeiPad and iPhone apps on Apple Silicon Macs
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10114
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeAutoFill everywhere
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10115
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeVoiceOver efficiency with custom rotors
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10116
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeAccessibility design for Mac Catalyst
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10117
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeCreate app clips for other businesses
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10118
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeIntroduction to SwiftUI
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10119
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeStreamline your app clip
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10120
Presenters: Yongjun Zhang, Luming Yin
- Best practices
- Focus on essential tasks
- Limit the features. Reserve complex features for your app
- Require all assets for initial experience
- Do not include splash screens
- Avoid requiring people to sign up before finishing their task
- Only ask for location and notification permissions if needed (more on this below)
- Make sure your App Clip has the same name and icon as your app
- Put shared assets in a shared asset catalog
- Authentication
- Support Sign in with Apple
- Use
ASWebAuthenticationSession
for other federated login - Offer username and password login for existing users
- Offer "Sign In With Apple" upgrade in the app
- For privacy reasons, and because App Clips are ephemeral, some contents are not available to App Clips, such as HealthKit info
- App Clips can request permission to use Bluetooth, the camera, and microphone
- Streamlining Transactions
- 2 new types of ephemeral permissions: Location and Notification
- Allows App Clips to check if the user is within a region, without prompting for location permission
- Add
NSAppClipRequestLocationConfirmation
with valuetrue
in yourInfo.plist
to enable this - Supports checking a region with a radius of up to 500 meters
- Add
- Allows App Clips to send notifications for up to 8 hours after each launch, without prompting for notification permission.
- Add
NSAppClipRequestEphemeralUserNotification
with valuetrue
in your Info.plist to enable this - Check the authorization status in the
NotificationSettings
, under the new.ephemeral
status
- Add
- Users can explicitly disable these permissions via App Clip settings panel
- App Clips can prompt the user for full Location and Notifications access, although discouraged
- Allows App Clips to check if the user is within a region, without prompting for location permission
- Strongly suggest using ApplePay
- Strongly suggest using "Sign In With Apple"
- Use
AuthenticationServices
API to sign your users in without showing a login screen (assuming they have already previously signed up in your website for instance)
- 2 new types of ephemeral permissions: Location and Notification
- Transition users to your app
- iOS suggests downloading your app from App Clip experiences, banners and App Clip settings
- You can embed
StoreKit
SKOverlay
in a view- Suggestion: display this overlay only after the user finishes their task, e.g. after payment
- Transfer data on device with a secure App Group
- Only accessible between your App Clip and your app
- Once user downloads the app, the App Group will be transferred to the app after the App Clip is deleted
- Migrate your "Sign In With Apple" session from your App Clip by persisting the user ID in the secure App Group. Use
ASAuthorizationAppleIDProvider
to verify the user's session without prompting UI
Discover AppleSeed for IT and Managed Software Updates
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10138
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeLeverage enterprise identity and authentication
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10139
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBuild location-aware enterprise apps
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10140
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBuild scalable enterprise app suites
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10142
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeWhat's new in Mac Catalyst
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10143
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeDesign for Game Center
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10145
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeConfigure and link your app clips
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10146/
Presenters: Ada Chan, Luming Yin
- Intro
- App Clips provide entry points to your users to experience your app with minimal friction.
- Use deep-linked navigation to present the App Clip
- User Quest
- User is in a smoothie shop. They see an NFC tag and tap it using the phone.
- An app clip shows up on the phone's lockscreen with summarized detail about that smoothie.
- User taps "open" and a single screen of your app shows up.
- User can then proceed to the payment via Apple Pay.
- Activation
- Tapping NFC tags or scanning QR codes - they're just deep links after all (a URL)
- Maps and Siri Nearby Suggestions (for registered businesses)
- Smart app banner in your website (shown in Safari and Messages)
- Apple App Clip codes will be introduced later this year (it's a prettified QR code)
- If the user already has the your app installed, following an App Clip link will open the full app instead.
- Setup
- Configure web server and App Clip for link handling
- Web Server: Update the apple-app-site-association file
- App Clip: Add associated domains entitlement and handle NSUserActivity
- Configure App Clip default and advanced experiences on App Store Connect
- Layout requirements:
- Title: 18 chars limit
- Subtitle: 43 chars limit
- Image:
- Size: 3000 x 2000px
- Aspect Ratio: 3:2
- Format: png/jpg
- Transparency: No
- Best Practices
- URL mapping is based on most specific prefix match against registered App Clip experience URLs
- Your App Clip must be able to launch using an exact registered URL. For example:
- App registers https://bikesrental.com/rent instead of https://website.com/rent?bikeID=2
- When receiving https://website.com/rent?bikeID=2, it should be able to deliver the https://website.com/rent App Clip
- App is responsible for parsing the remaining arguments and presenting the specific bike with ID 2
- You can also register a more specific URL if you want to provide a different and more specific App Clip experience for it
- Layout requirements:
- Configure the Smart App Banner to open App Clip (add this if the content of your web page can be delivered as a better and more streamlined app experience)
- Add/update your website's HTML to add the Smart App Banner meta tag
- Configure web server and App Clip for link handling
- Test
- Specify an App Clip URL under the
_XCAppClipURL
environment variable to launch App Clip from Xcode - TestFlight - new App Clips section in App Store Connect
- Specify an App Clip URL under the
Distribute binary frameworks as Swift packages
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10147
Presenters: Boris Buegling
- Xcode 11
- Introduction of Swift Packages to distribute libraries as source code
- Introduction of XCFrameworks to distribute closed-source binary frameworks and libraries
- Xcode 12 adds support for binary dependencies
- Binary Dependencies (XCFrameworks)
- Used to distribute closed-source frameworks, static and dynamic libraries
- Contain a single module
- Easily addable via the
Xcode > File > Swift Packages > Add Package Dependency
- Has sub directories corresponding to platform and target environment, each containing a framework
- Declare dependency in your Package.swift using
.package(url: "https://github.com/owner/package", from: "1.0.0")
- Distribute Binary Frameworks as a Swift Package
- New target type
.binaryTarget(name: "Emoji", url: https://example.com/Emoji/Emoji-1.0.0.xcframework.zip, checksum: "6d98....")
- Binary targets can be offered to clients just like regular targets
- Binary Targets
- Use XCFrameworks
- Only supported on Apple platforms
- HTTPS or path based - paths can point to files inside your package
- Name corresponds to the module name
- Use semantic versioning
- New target type
- Create your own Binary Dependency
- Create
File > New Swift Package
- Replace template-added targets and add a binary target
- Compute the checksum using
swift package compute-checksum Emoji-1.0.0.xcframework.zip
- Set
Build Libraries for Distribution
build setting - Archive each variant
xcodebuild -create-xcframework
- See 2019 session "Binary frameworks in Swift" or read the session notes which is way quicker
- Create
- Tradeoffs of Binary Dependencies
- Harder to debug since source code is missing
- You won't be able to compile for your specific platform if not included by the author
Inspect, modify, and construct PencilKit drawings
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10148
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeStructure your app for SwiftUI previews
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10149
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeWhat's new in CareKit
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10151
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeUse model deployment and security with Core ML
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10152
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeGet models on device using Core ML Converters
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10153
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeControl training in Create ML with Swift
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10156
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeDeliver a better HLS audio experience
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10158
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBuild an Endpoint Security app
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10159
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeFormatters: Make data human-friendly
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10160
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeDesign for location privacy
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10162
Presenter: Rachel Needle
- Today people share precise location data
- In iOS 14, Core Location allowing users to control and share their approximate location
- All kinds of apps will be impacted by this change (even Apple's apps)
- How to adapt the app to work without precise location?
- Prioritize user control
- Give everyone control over their location data they share and respect their preferences
- Don't require precise location
- Replace precise data with approximate where possible
- Identify where else you use precise location and remove non-essential uses of precise location
- Build trust through transparency
- Communicate with people about what data your app uses and how that data is used
- Make status easy to access
- Allow users to change their decision
- Offer proportional value
- Only ask for precise location when you really need it
- Request precise location in response to user action
- Position the request close to the value it provides
- Consider checking out these two sessions to get detailed information
- Prioritize user control
Advancements in the Objective-C runtime
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10163
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeXCTSkip your tests
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10164
Presenters: Wil Addario-Turner
- Tests can pass or fail, or with
XCTSkip
, be marked with an explicit "skip" result. - In Xcode 11.4,
XCTSkip
,XCTSkipIf
andXCTSkipUnless
were introduced to allow skipping tests at runtime. - Call
throw XCTSkip("message")
and the test will be skipped. XCTSkipIf
skips when the expression is true.XCTSkipUnless
skips when the expression is false.- Check the results from the test navigator and the test report with the line where the skip occurred, along with a reason explaining why.
Embrace Swift type inference
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10165
Presenter: Holly Borla
- Leveraging type inference
- A type can be inferred by the compiler given the context surrounding a variable or function
- SwiftUI code relies on type inference for reusable views
- A demo is presented showing a SwiftUI component being built using generics
- How type inference works in compiler
- Think of type inference as a puzzle
- It resolves the puzzle by filling in the missing pieces using clues from the source code
- Solving one puzzle can give the compiler more clues on how to solve other puzzles
- Type inference errors
- If a puzzle can't be solved, there's an error in the source code
- During type inference, the compiler will record information about errors in source code
- Compiler uses heuristics to attempt to fix errors in order to continue type inference
- Once type inference is done, the compiler will provide actionable error messages based on collected information (some errors might have auto-fixes)
- Swift 5.3 and Xcode 12 improved error handling a lot, showing more meaningful and reliable error messages
- Using Swift and Xcode to fix compile errors
- The compiler will leave breadcrumbs about what the compiler was doing when it found an error
- This can help you connect the dots between the error you're seeing on the editor and other files in your project
- Hold ⌥ + ⇧ on an error breadcrumb and drag it to the right of the source editor, to open the source editor and the breadcrumbs details side by side
Safely manage pointers in Swift
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10167
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeExplore logging in Swift
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10168
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeSwift packages: Resources and localization
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10169
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeWhat's new in Swift
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10170
Presenters: Ted Kremenek, Kyle Macomber
- Swift Releases
- Xcode 11.4 - Swift 5.2
- Xcode 12 (beta) - Swift 5.3
- Runtime Performance
- Code Size
- Code size is the part of the app that represents the machine code representation of the app's logic
- Swift 5.3 is below 1.5 times the code size of Objective-C version (based on app that ships with iOS)
- Size difference is inevitable because of Swift safety features
- SwiftUI app binary code size can be reduced by 40% (based on MoviesSwiftUI app)
- Memory Layout
- Comparing models with three properties in Obj-C (
NSUUID
,NSString
andfloat
) and Swift (UUID
,String
,Float
) - In Obj-C, object variables are just pointers which then hold a pointer to their properties
- Swift's use of value types avoid the need to access values via pointers (UUID and Strings)
- Significant memory benefit because it is allocated directly within array storage (contiguous block of memory)
- Heap memory use comparison: 20kB in Swift 5.1 vs 35kB in Obj-C (400 models in array)
- Swift's Standard Library now is below Foundation in the stack which means it can be used to develop low-level frameworks for Objective-C frameworks where previously C has to be used!
- Comparing models with three properties in Obj-C (
- Code Size
- Diagnostics
- New diagnostics in the Swift compiler result in more precise and actionable errors
- Additional notes in error messages (SwiftUI as an example)
- More info on swift.org
- Code completion
- Much better code completion thanks to improvements in SourceKit
- Code completion for dictionary literals, ternary expressions and more dynamic features like key paths
- Code completion in Xcode 12.0 is 15x faster compared to Xcode 11.5
- Code Indentation
- Improved indentation formatting in chained methods calls, tuples, multiline
if
andguards
- Improved indentation in SwiftUI as well
- Improved indentation formatting in chained methods calls, tuples, multiline
- Debugging
- Debugger now displays the reason for Swift runtime failure traps
- Cross-Platform Support
- Multiple platform support
- Apple Platforms
- Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
- CentOS 8
- Amazon Linux 2
- Windows (coming soon)
- Swift on AWS Lambda
- Runtime is open-source and is available on GitHub
- Multiple platform support
- Language
- Swift Evolution website
- Multiple trailing closure syntax SE-0279
- It's important to set the correct base name of the method that will indicate the first trailing closure that its label will be dropped
- Key Path Expressions as Functions SE-0249
@main
: Type-Based Program Entry Points SE-0281- The standardized way to delegate a program's entry point
- Increased availability of implicit self in @escaping closures when reference cycles are unlikely to occur SE-0269
- Now it's possible to add
self
to the capture list - In Swift 5.3, if self is a structure it can be omitted entirely from the closure
- Now it's possible to add
- Multi-Pattern Catch Clauses SE-0276
- Enum Enhancements
- Embedded DSL Enhancements
- Builder closures
- Swift 5.3 introduces pattern matching statements like
if let
andswitch
- Builder inference (
@SceneBuilder
is not longer needed)
- Libraries
Float16
SE-0277- Half-width floating point type
- Performance gains but low precision and small range
- Apple Archive
- Modular archive format
- Fast compression
- Idiomatic Swift API
- Swift System
- Idiomatic Swift interface to system calls
- Low-level currency types
- Wraps Darwin APIs
- OSLog
- Unified logging API
- Faster and more expressive (formatting options)
- Packages
- Swift Numerics
- Support for complex numbers and basic math functions
- Swift ArgumentParser
- Swift Standard Library Preview
- Includes features that have not been included in the release yet
- Swift Numerics
What's new in watchOS design
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10171
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeDesign great app clips
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10172
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeGet the most out of Sign in with Apple
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10173
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeExplore app clips
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10174
Presenters: James Savage, Luming Yin
- What is an App Clip?
- App Clip Experience URL is required to run App Clips which are parts of your app
- On-demand app experiences
- App Clip Experiences
- App Clip URLs are similar to Universal Links
- Registered using App Store Connect
- Surfaced through user actions via NFC / QR codes / links in Safari or other apps / Apple App Clip codes combine the ease of NFC and visual codes so they can be tapped or scanned
- New App Clip Target in Xcode
- Contains all assets
- Needs to be submitted along with the app for review
- It gets downloaded separately if the app is not installed on user’s device
- Should be as small as possible for quick downloads (less than 10MB but with enough assets to load UI quickly)
- Focused user flows - one at a time
- Demo
- Ordering smoothies
- New App Clip target embedded in the application
- Name and bundle ID for App Clip added
- It can build and run with boilerplate code right away
- Add code and resources
NutritionFacts
dependency added- Create new Assets Catalog as shared assets
- Drag App Icon, Colors and other image assets required for app clip into the shared assets catalog
- Add the required model and view files to App Clip target
- Let go of unwanted Swift files like navigation
- Conditionally compile out the references to files not added to App Clip
- Build Settings > Swift Compiler custom flags > Active Compilation Conditions > Add APPCLIP condition for required schemes.
- Use #if !APPCLIP to compile out unwanted references in Swift code
- Write code for App Clip
- Add required models and views to the new AppClip
- Include existing views in the App Clip’s content view
- Technology Overview
- App Clips are built using same UI components as an app
- When launched, it receives
NSUserActivity
- Use the URL to identify the type of experience to be handled
- Unlike extensions, App Clip can make use of all iOS SDK APIs
- Note: Access to sensitive data is limited
- Always check if data is available
- New location confirmation API helps get the location quickly without requesting full access
- New API for migrating data from App Clip to main app using shared data container once installed
- App Clip and its local storage will be deleted after period of inactivity
- Not included in backups
- Can not be launched via Universal Links or custom URL schemes
- Can not include bundle extensions like content blockers
- Device states and transitions
- User scans QR code
- iOS locates, downloads and runs the App Clip
- If the App Clip is not revisited for a while, the App Clip and its data gets deleted
- Treat App Clip data as cache; which can be deleted
- If the App Clip is visited frequently, its lifespan will be extended and data may never be cleared
- When user downloads your app, iOS will automatically migrate the data container and the permissions that were already granted by the user
- iOS still deletes the App Clip and its container after copying the data container to the app
- Other technologies
- Apple Pay
- Notifications
- SwiftUI
SKOverlay
/AppStoreOverlayModifier
(refer to What’s new with in-app purchase session)ASAuthorizationController
for sign in or sign up
The details of UI typography
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10175
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeMaster Picture in Picture on tvOS
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10176
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CONTRIBUTING.md
TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeWhat's new in HealthKit
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10182
Presenter: Netra Kenkarey
- Symptoms
- Developers can now track symptoms in HealthKit, read and write symptom samples
- HealthKit attempted to cover and track a wide range of symptoms (shortness of breath, sleep changes, appetite changes, fever, headache, etc.)
- There are 13 symptom data types in HealthKit
- Electrocardiogram (ECG)
- ECG samples will be available for reading in the latest version of iOS and watchOS
- An ECG sample can be read as an
HKElectrocardiogram
(it represents a waveform as a series of voltage values) - ECG sample has important properties that describe the measurements
- classification (
HKElectrocardiogram.Classification
)- Apple Watch will give the result of the recording in the form of a classification
- The classification is divided into 2 types
- Sinus Rhythm (heart is beating in a uniform pattern)
- Atrial fibrillation (form of irregular rhythm, user should probably go see their doctor)
- If Apple Watch is unable to determine the ECG result, either due to a low or a high heart rate or due to any other reason, the result is considered inconclusive
- symptomStatus (
HKElectrocardiogram.SymptomsStatus
)- It tells if the user associated a symptom with this ECG (e.g. heartburn, tightness in the chest)
- The symptom experienced can be recorded along with the ECG
- averageHeartRage (
HKQuantity?
) - samplingFrequence (
HKQuantity?
) - numberOfVoltageMeasurements (
Int
)- It refers to the individual voltage measurements that make up an ECG sample
HKElectrocardiogramQuery
- To retrieve the individual measurements run the
HKElectrocardiogramQuery
- Fetch the ECG samples with any of the HealthKit queries and then initialize the
HKElectrocardiogramQuery
with the fetched sample - When this query is executed on the HealthStore, you get the individual voltage measurements back in the ECG and the data handler
- To retrieve the individual measurements run the
- Mobility
- New set of mobility types (available for reading and writing on the latest iOS and watchOS)
- Walking speed and step length
- Walking assymetry and double support percentage
- Stair ascent and descent speed
- Six-minute walk test distance
- New set of mobility types (available for reading and writing on the latest iOS and watchOS)
Synchronize health data with HealthKit
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10184
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10185
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10188
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10189
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeCreate quick interactions with Shortcuts on watchOS
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10190
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeAdd configuration and intelligence to your widgets
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10194
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10197
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seePlatform State of the Union ★
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/102/
- Some new features: AirPods Motion API, SwiftPM resources, New Catalyst Controls, ARKit 4, Widgets in SwiftUI, Depth API, TestFlight 100 Testers, SwiftUI Lifecycle, Catalyst Native Screen Resolution, Complications in SwiftUI, Xcode StoreKit Testing, HomePod Music Services, App Clips, New SwiftUI Controls, Xcode Tabs, ...
- Users can make your app the default app used for email and set a default web browser
- Developers can bring existing web-browser extensions to Safari using a new command line tool
- FindMy can now leverage all iPhones out there to locate your devices, even if they are not connected to the internet (applicable to all kinds of objects)
- Mac transition to Apple Silicon - Apple's own processor line - brings more security, better performance, longer battery life and amazing graphics
- Advantages
- Cached cloud content can be kept up to date for days, even if your mac goes to sleep
- Higher quality, hardware-supported 4:4:4 encoder for e.g. better image quality when connecting your Mac via SideCar
- Best-In-Class platform security
- Apple provides a Developer Transition Kit
- Mac mini enclosure + A12Z SoC
- 16GB memory, 512GB SSD
- macOS Big Sur Developer Beta + Xcode
- First Macs will appear by end of the year
- Advantages
- Universal 2 create universal apps that run on both Apple Silicon and older architectures
- Porting to Apple Silicon takes only a few days, even for grown projects. As a result, all Apple system apps are already converted in macOS Big Sur
- Rosetta 2 lets existing app run on new architectures from day one by making them compatible at installation time
- Supports iPhone and iPad apps directly
- iOS/iPad Apps natively on Mac
- Apps will run natively on the Mac
- Apps will automatically support features like resizing, Dark Mode, scrolling, multi-window, native share sheets, ...
- Apple plans to make iOS/iPadOS apps available on the App Store for macs running with Apple Silicon
- macOS Big Sur - macOS 11
- Rounded dock
🎉 - Control Center for mac
- New translucent look for notification center
- Refined layout for menus of the menu bar
- New sheet presentation - parent window is dimmed
- Completely re-designed toolbars with extending search fields and images provided by SF-Symbols
- App-specific accent color
- macOS Catalyst
- macOS-specific implementation of iOS API's
- Native resolution support
- Messages re-written in Catalyst
- SwiftPlaygrounds will support multiple windows
- Rounded dock
- iPadOS
- New sidebars can now expand from two-column layout to three-column layout - even available in portrait mode
- Recommended to use side bars instead of tab bars
- New inline emoji picker - also for custom apps
- New color picker UI - easy to adopt
- New Depth APIs give you access to precise distance info captured by the LiDAR scanner on iPad
- Dramatic improvement of people inclusion and motion detection - objects can be placed in front or behind real objects in the world
- Apple Pencil
- New handwriting improvements will work in your apps without any additional work
- Hand-writing for any UITextField
- Automatic support for Scribble which converts any hand-written text to typed text
- Stroke API gives access to the strokes as the user draws
- Smart Selection lets you select single words / characters you've written using your pencil and iOS text recognition features
- iOS 14
- Widgets
- New widgets take UX to a whole new level
- Users can move them to the home screen
- Widgets are packed as SwiftUI archives which are optimized for performance
- Are rendered by the system at the right time, when the user needs them
- Can be smartly stacked to consume less space and let the user flip through them
- Stack automatically moves the right widget to the top at just the right time
- Configurable in the Widget Gallery
- App Clips
- Small part of the app which is light/fast and easy to discover
- Can use Apple Pay and Sign in With Apple to provide a seamless UX
- Easily discoverable in a variety of ways, like other apps or places in the real world via new Apple-designed (QR-like) codes which are basically NFC tags
- Introduce users to what your app offers
- Misc. New Features
- Cycling directions, Guides and EV routing in Maps
- Translate app
- Messages inline replies
- Car keys
- App Library
- On device dictation
- Widgets
- watchOS 7
- Xcode is now able to preview watchOS complications
- SwiftUI complications
- Watch-face sharing via any sharing capabilities, e.g Messages, social media, etc
- Xcode 12
- Cleaner, more expressive UI
- Navigators realized using the new Side Bar
- Any kind of content is now openable in document tab
- Navigate through nested calls in compiler failure messages
- StoreKit test environment lets you unit test In-App Purchase and Subscriptions
- New StoreKit transaction manager shows details during debugging
- Faster code completion with simplified presentation
- SwiftUI
- All SwiftUI apps will continue to compile without additional changes (Apple added no breaking changes - just extensions)
- Lazy statement makes large collections of views way less memory hungry and makes scrolling snappy again
- Now contains app-structure APIs for all Apple platforms, e.g.
@main
,@SceneBuilder
,Settings
, ...
Design for intelligence: Meet people where they are
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10200
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeCreate great enterprise apps: A chat with Box's Aaron Levie
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10204
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10205
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10206
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10207
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10209
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10210
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seePort your Mac app to Apple Silicon
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10214
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10216
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10217
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBuild localization-friendly layouts using Xcode
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10219
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10220
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeGet your test results faster
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10221
Presenters: Sean Olszewski
- The Testing Feedback Loop
- Write tests > run tests > Interpret result >if sufficient confidence [ > Next task] else go back to write tests
- Short feedback loops is important because that means you get results from your tests faster, you can ship features to your users faster.
- Real world example: Result bundle from that CI job, which never finished. Due to dead lock, poorly chosen timeout.
- Execution Time Allowance [NEW in XCode 12]
- When enabled, Xcode enforces a limit on the amount of time each individual test can take. When a test exceeds this limit, Xcode will first capture spin dump, then kill the test that hung, restart the test runner, so that the rest of the suite can execute.
- A spin dump shows you which functions each thread is spending the most time in. It's also possible to manually capture spin dump from Terminal using the spin dump command or from within Activity Monitor.
- By default, each test gets 10 minutes. If you need to a specific test or test class, you can use the
executionTimeAllowance
API to special case a particular test or subclass. For values under 60 seconds, they'll be rounded up to 60 seconds, the nearest whole minute. - Prevent a test requests unlimited time by enforcing a maximum allowance.
- You can customize the default time allowance and a maximum allowance either via a setting in the Test Plan or through an Xcodebuild option.
- Use
XCTest
's performance APIs to automate testing for regressions in the performance. Use Instruments to identify what parts of your code are slow,
- Parallel Distributed Testing
- Xcode build will distribute tests to each run destination by class. Each device runs a single test class at a time.
- If you're testing logic that is device or OS specific, this can lead to unexpected failures or skipped tests.
Create custom apps for employees
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10222
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10223
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10224
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeImprove stream authoring with HLS Tools
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10225
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10226
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10228
Presenter: Roger Pantos
- Comes out of beta this year
- Available in iOS 14, tvOS 14, watchOS 7 and this year's macOS
- Includes support for bit-rate switching, FairPlay Streaming, fMP4 CMAF, ad insertion, captioning
- Native app support, no entitlement necessary
- draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis07 and later now includes LL-HLS
- Includes Low-Latency Server Configuration Profile
- Includes CDN tune-in algorithm
- Updated informative articles on developer.apple.com
- Significant changes and improvements to the protocol
- Reducing segment delay
- Approach described last year using HTTP/2 Push to send segment with Playlist is not compatible with some delivery models
- Replaced Push with Blocking Preload Hints
- Client requests next part in advance
- Server will hold on to the request until it can send it
- Also triggers global CDN cache fill
- Discover HLS Blocking Preload Hints session for more information
- Other improvements
- Eliminated HLS report
- All Rendition Reports are provided unconditionally
- Defined EXT-X-DATERANGE handling for Playlist Delta Updates
- Optimize Live Streams with HLS Playlist Delta Updates session for more detailed information
- Added signaling of gaps in Parts and Rendition Reports
- New attributes: GAP=YES in EXT-X-PART and EXTT-X-RENDITION-REPORT
- This allowing clients to deal better with encoded outages in Low-Latency streams
- Eliminated HLS report
- Reducing segment delay
- Low-Latency HLS Tools changes
- Reference implementation now produces fMP4/CMAF
- Added self-contained LL-HLS origin written in Go
- Incorporated Low-Latency HLS tools into the regular HLS tools package
- Find out more in Improve Stream Authoring with HLS Tools session
- Summary of important changes
- Replaced HTTP/2 Push with Preloading Hinting
- Simplified Delivery Directives
- Generate CMAF in reference tools
- Everything is included in the current HLS spec
Discover HLS Blocking Preload Hints
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10229
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10230
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeReduce latency with HLS Blocking Playlist Reload
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10231
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10232
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeThe artist’s AR toolkit
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10601
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeHarness Apple GPUs with Metal
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10602
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeOptimize Metal apps and games with GPU counters
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10603
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeShop online with AR Quick Look
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10604
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeGain insights into your Metal app with Xcode 12
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10605
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeExplore ARKit 4
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10611
Presenters: Quinton Petty, Praveen Gowda
- Location Anchors
- Geo-referenced AR Content
- Uses "visual localization" from Maps
- No processing in the cloud
- No images sent back to Apple
- Pinned to a geo-location
- 3 main parts
- Device support A12 Bionic or later + GPS support
- Requires availability checks for both device and location
ARGeotrackingStatus
State
StateReason
accuracy
: low, medium, high
- Methods for converting between local and latitude / longitude positions via
getGeoLocation(forPoint:)
- Recommended to point towards buildings / static objects
- May struggle in wide open spaces (e.g a field)
- Locations currently available: San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Miami
- Sample: Tracking Geographic Locations in AR
- Scene Geometry
- Topological map of environment
- Semantic classification
- Allowing for:
- Occlusion
- Physics
- Virtual lighting
- Based upon the Depth API
- Depth API
- Provides a dense depth image
- Use
sceneDepth
under frame semantics - Runs at 60Hz, on every ARFrame
depthMap
andconfidenceMap
provided- Depth map provided as
CVPixelBuffer
ARConfidenceLevel
: high, medium or low- Available on LiDAR devices
- Object Placement
- Improvements in Raycasting
- Quicker placement with LiDAR sensor
- Allows for placing on a white wall
- Raycasting is recommend over hit-testing
- 2 types of query:
- Raycast
- Tracked Raycasts
- Face Tracking
- Support added for non-TrueDepth iPhones
- Requires A12 processor or later
- iPhone SE (2020)
What's new in RealityKit
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10612
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10613
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeAdvancements in Game Controllers
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10614
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBuild GPU binaries with Metal
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10615
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeDebug GPU-side errors in Metal
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10616
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBring keyboard and mouse gaming to iPad
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10617
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeTap into Game Center: Dashboard, Access Point, and Profile
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10618
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeTap into Game Center: Leaderboards, Achievements, and Multiplayer
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10619
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeSupport performance-intensive apps and games
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10621
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBring your Metal app to Apple Silicon Macs
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10631
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeOptimize Metal Performance for Apple Silicon Macs
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10632
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeCapture and stream apps on the Mac with ReplayKit
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10633
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeDiscover search suggestions for Apple TV
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10634
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeAccelerate your app with CarPlay
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10635
Presenters: Jonathan Hersh, Allen Langmaier
- New CarPlay App Possibilites
- EV charging
- Parking
- Quick food ordering
- Audio Apps
- Playable content template will be deprecated
- New audio template
- New Templates
- Communication Apps
CPMessageListItem
- Contact template
- List template
- Tab bar template
- Now playing template
- Point of interest template
- Information template
- Communication Apps
- CarPlay Design Principles
- Design for the driver
- Streamline interactions
- Reuse app configuration
- Launch first in CarPlay
- CarPlay apps must adapt
UIScene
- Updates to development
- Dynamic updates to list elements
CPListItem
CPListImageRowItem
What's new in streaming audio for Apple Watch
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10636
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10639
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10640
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10641
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBuild Image and Video Style Transfer models in Create ML
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10642
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10643
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeUse Swift on AWS Lambda with Xcode
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10644
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeSupport multiple users in your tvOS app
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10645
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10646
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBecome a Simulator expert
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10647
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeUnsafe Swift
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10648
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeAdd custom views and modifiers to the Xcode Library
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10649
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10650
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10651
Presenter: Daniel Miao
- App Clips
- Beta Testing
- Safari App Clip banner appears when a website is associated with an App Clip. Tapping brings up the
App Clip Card
. Tapping the card opens the app itself. - App Clips can be invoked from Safari, Messages, Maps, NFC Tags, QR Code or Location
- Invocation URL from the website is used what to show on the App Clip Card and is passed to it upon tap of the banner
- App Clip is packaged with the app and delivered to ASC
- In the new
App Clip Invocation
Section on ASC you can provide titles and along with invocation URLs used in the App Clip - Title-URL combinations are selectable in TestFlight and take you directly to the App Clip by passing the invocation URL (without showing the App Clip Card)
- Safari App Clip banner appears when a website is associated with an App Clip. Tapping brings up the
- App Clip Card Meta Data
- Header image, App Clip title, App Clip subtitle, call to action button
- Enter the default meta data on the apps version page on ASC
- Associate your website with the App Clip by including the meta-data tag
<meta name="apple-itunes-app", content:"app-id=123456", app-clip-bundle-id:=org.appname.clip>
- Use Advanced App Clip Experiences to get customized meta data and association with e.g. location in Maps
- Advanced assistant on your app's version page on ASC to setup advanced experience
- You can select to promote
Your own business
orOther Businesses
(e.g. Yelp)
- You have to specify an Apple App Site Association file (like with universal links) that has to match the Associated Domains Entitlement in your app
- Manage / Debug your website association on ASC
- Beta Testing
- Game Center
- Challenges other players to get achievement
- Recurring Leaderboards to collect scores for a certain period of time
- Reset after that time
- Configurable on ASC
- Family Sharing for Subscriptions
- Subscriptions can be shared among the family form fall 2020
- Auto-renewable subscriptions
- Non-consumables
- Automatic sharing for new customers
- Existing subscribers can opt-in
- Family-shared in-app purchase can be enabled on the ASC-In-App-Purchase section of your app
- Once turned on it cannot be tuned off again
- App Store Connect API
- Over 200 new endpoints will be added
- Add
App Meta Data API
- Create new version
- Set app pricing
- Edit app and version metadata
- Associate build with version
- Submit app for review
- Add
Power and Performance Metrics and Diagnostics API
Meet the new Photos picker
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10652
Presenters: Tobias Conradi, Justin Jia
- PHPicker
- Direct access to user’s photo gallery
- Supports zoom in, multi-select, review
- Types are filterable
- Privacy built in by default
- It won’t prompt the user for access
- It runs out of the app’s process
- Separate process rendered on top of the app
- Only what user selects is passed back to the app
- Implementation
PHPickerConfiguration
(which can include type filters) is passed toPHPickerViewController
, which has delegates to handle responsesPHPickerConfiguration
- Selection limit
- Image / Video type
- Initialize
PHPickerViewController
by using the configuration - Set delegate and implement protocol functions
didFinishPicking
NSItemProvider
- representation of the item, async, requires error handling
- Demo
- Photo preview app
UIImageView
with placeholder image- Plus button for image selection
- Present the new picker
- Create
PHPickerConfiguration
with images filter and selection limit (set to zero for unlimited selection) - Initialize the
PHPickerViewController
with this configuration - Present the new controller after setting delegate and following the protocol
- Implement
didFinishPicking
- Dismiss the picker first
- Retrieve the image via item provider and use main queue to update your UI
- Use
IndexingIterator<[NSItemProvider]>
to save array of item providers - Add touch event to iterate through the array of picked images
- Note
AssetsLibrary
will go away; switch toPhotoKit
UIImagePickerController
is to be deprecated and replaced withPHPickerViewController
Detect Body and Hand Pose with Vision
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10653
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10654
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10655
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeBeyond counting steps
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10656
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeMake apps smarter with Natural Language
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10657
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeWhat's new in education
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10658
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeIntroducing StoreKit Testing in Xcode
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10659
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeWhat's new in location
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10660
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeWhat’s new with in-app purchase
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10661
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TO-DO! You can contribute to this session, please seeWhat's new in Wallet and Apple Pay
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10662
Presenter: Stacey Abrams
- Use Apple Pay to get into public transit and acadamic buildings
- API Enhancements
- PKSecureElementPass replaces PKPaymentPass fom now
- New Apple Pay Button types:
.reload
,.addMoney
,.topUp
,.order
,.rent
,.support
,.contribute
,.tip
- See how to declare a Apple Pay Button on a website at 2:16
- PKPaymentButton style
.automatic
automatically switches between light and dark mode
- Apple Pay in App Clips
- Could revolutionize everydays payment experience when you can e.g. just tap an NFC tag on a gas station to pay your gas
- Guest checkouts using Apple Pay do not require to setup an account anymore and if it is necessary seamless Sign in with Apple is used.
- Enhancing Apple Pay experience across platforms
- Merchants can receive redacted billing address
- Lower risk of chargebacks for merchnts
- Price transparency leads to higher conversion rates
- Apple Pay for Catalyst
- Brings great payment experiences to more mac apps
- Brings the newly announced APIs, including the Apple Pay button, to the mac
- Improvements in WKWebView will allow more pages to allow Apple Pay transactions now
- Merchants can receive redacted billing address
- Contacts Formatting Improvements to prevent invalid shipping addresses
- Street and city fields contain vaild characters only
- State is a two letter code
- US: Zip code is 5 or 9 digit code
- ISO country code is upper case two letter code
- Improved experience when correcting information
- Raise formatting errors earlier in the payment flow
- Users can correct information prior to authentication
- Error APIs improved and aligned to new formatting options
- Only rolles out in some Australia, Canada, UK, US for now
- Adding cards to Apple Pay
- Issuer Extensions to improve discoverability from within the Wallet app - needs installatioon of an Issuer app
- App requires non-UI extension
- Extension principal object must subclass
PKIssuerProvisioningExtensionHandler
- Requires non-UI extension entitlement
- Extension principal object must subclass
- Added support for a UI extension
- Needs to handle re-authentications if required by conforming principal object to
PKIssuerProvisioningExtensionAuthorizationProviding
- Requires UI extension entitlement
- Needs to handle re-authentications if required by conforming principal object to
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