WWDC 2015 - Round Up
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The document discusses updates and announcements from Apple's WWDC, highlighting features in iOS 9, Swift 2.0, watchOS 2, and multitasking improvements. Key takeaways emphasize the dominance of native apps, Apple's focus on user engagement, and the importance of adopting best-practice recommendations for app development. Additional notes caution developers about security settings and potential compatibility issues with iOS 9.
WWDC 2015 - Round Up
- 4. www.michaelridland.com WWDC - The (Dev) Announcements!
- 5. www.michaelridland.com Multitasking in iOS 9 (iPad) Slideover SplitView
- 6. www.michaelridland.com Multitasking in iOS 9 (iPad) Picture-In-Picture
- 7. www.michaelridland.com Search APIs in iOS 9 ▪NSUserActivity – previously viewed app content ▪CoreSpotlight – index any app content ▪Web Markup – App content which is also supported on the web
- 8. www.michaelridland.com Swift 2.0 and is open source
- 9. www.michaelridland.com WatchOS 2 + WatchKit New watch faces Time travel Many other user features https://www.apple.com/ watchos-2-preview/
- 10. www.michaelridland.com WatchKit ▪ Custom complications (eg watch face) ▪ Programmatic access to the Digital Crown ▪ Animation APIs ▪ APIs for playing audio, video and microphone ▪ Access to the Taptic engine ▪ Extensions now run Native on the watch ▪ Full networking with NSSession
- 11. www.michaelridland.com Others ▪ Free App Development ▪ $99 for all platforms (early released) ▪ OS Upgrade Improvements - Under 1.4 GB space ▪ iOS 9 Improved Battery Life & Low Power Mode ▪ App Thinning ▪ Bitcode ▪ Much much more…
- 13. www.michaelridland.com Native apps still dominate! ▪ Apple is obsessed with user engagement, experience and performance, and they believe apps are key to this. ▪ Why is Native important ▪ Notifications - Long form notifications and actionable notifications ▪ Search APIs - Apps are now allowed to interface with search in iOS 9+DeepLink ▪ App Extensions - While not new in iOS9, still a powerful engagement feature ▪ Apple Watch
- 14. www.michaelridland.com Other takeaways ▪ Apple will continue pushing people to apps ▪ Apple will continue pushing people to upgrade iOS ▪ Swift all the things ▪ watchOS is serious ▪ Stop thinking about Orientation
- 16. www.michaelridland.com Support Multitasking in your apps! ▪ ‘participating in iOS 9 multitasking is straightforward when you’ve adopted Apple’s best-practice recommendations for iOS 8’ ▪ Stop thinking in Orientation focus on screen size ▪ Use autolayout & Size classes
- 17. www.michaelridland.com Your Xamarin.iOS project might crash on iOS9! ▪ Need to build with the Stable version of Xamarin.iOS and resubmit to the App Store
- 18. www.michaelridland.com Beware (unsecured) connections ▪ Apple NSSession now has ATS security and it’s enabled by default ▪ It will fail on insecure connections ▪ This affects ModernHttpClient ▪ Can be switched off via plist
- 19. www.michaelridland.com So what wasn’t in the Video’s?
- 21. www.michaelridland.com Queue overnight for a dev conference WTF?
- 22. www.michaelridland.com Get used to Queue’s
- 23. www.michaelridland.com Q & A Michael Ridland michael@xam-consulting.com www.michaelridland.com