Apple\u00ae\u00a0 unveiled new tools and technologies designed to help developers create more engaging app experiences and make it even easier to build high-quality apps. Xcode\u00ae Cloud brings together the multiple tasks and tools required to build, test, and deliver apps using powerful cloud services, enabling individual developers and teams to be more productive and provide great apps to their users. With In-App Events and Custom Product Pages, the App Store\u00ae now provides all-new ways for developers to promote their apps and connect with users. Swift\u00ae takes a massive leap forward with concurrency support built into the language, and new augmented reality (AR) technologies make it easier than ever to build immersive content in apps or on the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to provide our developer community with powerful new tools and technologies to help create even more compelling and higher-quality apps, while engaging with their users in all new ways through the App Store,\u201d said Susan Prescott, Apple\u2019s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. \u201cWith the robust set of tools included in Xcode Cloud, continuing innovation in the Swift programming language, a wide range of new APIs<\/a>, and even more ways to reach users \u2014 Apple\u2019s platforms have never been stronger.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Xcode Cloud<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Xcode Cloud is a new continuous integration and delivery cloud service designed specifically for Apple developers. Built into Xcode 13, Xcode Cloud offers a fast and simple way for developers and teams of all sizes to build, test, and deliver high-quality apps even more efficiently. Xcode Cloud can automatically build apps in the cloud to free up developers\u2019 Macs for other tasks. Parallel testing in the cloud means developers can test on a simulated version of every current Apple device, then easily deploy a build of the app for internal testing, or deliver to external beta testers through TestFlight\u00ae for instant feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n App Store<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n With more apps and games featuring events like live competitions, movie premieres, live-streamed experiences, and much more, it\u2019s now easier for users to discover these events right on the App Store<\/a> \u2014 in personalized recommendations, editorial selections, search results, and on app product pages. This greatly expands the reach of developers\u2019 events \u2014 helping connect them with new users, keep their current users informed, or reconnect them with past users. It\u2019s a whole new way for developers to showcase what\u2019s happening in their apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A top-requested feature among developers, Apple is introducing new product page tools that offer developers greater flexibility and new ways to connect with users right in the App Store<\/a>. Custom Product Pages let developers showcase different features of their app for different users, while Product Page Optimization gives developers the ability to test different screenshots, preview videos, and even app icons. With rich, privacy-friendly analytics in App Store Connect, developers can see what their users like most and make the best decisions for their product pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apple is introducing updated guidelines that include support for the emerging category of apps that offer creator content experiences. The developer code of conduct expands to help keep the App Store<\/a> a fair marketplace for developers and users, including updated guidelines around developer identity requirements, ratings and review manipulation, and excessive customer complaints. There are also new avenues for developers to appeal an app rejection on concerns of bias, as well as the option for them to report an app if there is reason to believe an app presents a trust or safety concern, or is in violation of the App Store Review Guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Swift<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Swift \u2014 Apple\u2019s powerful and intuitive programming language \u2014 now features built-in concurrency support. This means developers can more easily write code that does work in parallel, which is key to building apps that are responsive to user input, while doing more work in the background. With concurrency in Swift, developers can write fast, modern, safe code with fewer mistakes, and take full advantage of the powerful multicore silicon across Apple\u2019s devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SwiftUI\u00ae has reinvented user interface development by making it easier to develop great-looking apps with as little code as possible. Now SwiftUI takes a huge step forward, helping developers bring better experiences to all their users. This includes enhancements for improving list views, search experiences, in-app accessibility features, multi-column tables, and so much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Swift Playgrounds\u00ae is a great way to learn to code right on a Mac\u00ae or iPad\u00ae. With Swift Playgrounds 4, coming later this year, users will be able to create the visual design of an app with SwiftUI. App projects can be opened and edited in Swift Playgrounds or in Xcode, and when they\u2019re ready, users can build a real app and submit it directly to the App Store<\/a> right from their iPad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Augmented Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Apple has the world\u2019s largest augmented reality<\/a> platform with over 1 billion AR-enabled devices powered by ARKit\u00ae, a framework that allows developers to easily create AR experiences, and RealityKit\u2122, the rendering, animation, audio, and physics engine built from the ground up for AR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RealityKit 2 introduces Object Capture, a simple and powerful API<\/a> on macOS<\/a> Monterey\u2122 that enables developers \u2014 like Wayfair, Etsy, and more \u2014 to create high-quality, photo-realistic 3D models of real-world objects in minutes by taking photos shot on iPhone\u00ae, iPad, or DSLR and transforming them into 3D models optimized for AR. These models can be viewed in AR Quick Look or added to AR scenes in Reality Composer\u2122 or Xcode, making it easier than ever to build amazing AR apps. Developers like Maxon and Unity are using Object Capture to unlock entirely new ways of creating 3D content within some of the leading 3D content creation apps, such as Cinema4D and Unity MARS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With new APIs in RealityKit 2, developers can also create more realistic and complex AR experiences with greater visual, audio, and animation control, including custom render passes and dynamic shaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Graphics and Games<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n New APIs and tools in iOS, iPadOS\u00ae, and macOS\u00ae will help game developers create the next generation of games and deliver all-new experiences to their users. A new Metal\u00ae texture compression tool supports all of the latest formats, as well as optimized formats for Apple silicon, making it easier for developers to bring high-end games to all of Apple\u2019s platforms. Additionally, a new Virtual Game Controller on iPhone and iPad provides an easy method to optimize games that build in Game Controller support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional Developer Tools and APIs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Apple is providing developers with a range of new tools and APIs that will push their app experience forward and enable them to create entirely new features \u2014 all built with privacy at the forefront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Xcode 13 adds powerful new team development features that are perfect for working with Xcode Cloud, as well as with GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab collaboration features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 With SharePlay\u2122, popular apps like Disney+, ESPN+, HBO Max, Hulu, MasterClass, Paramount+, TikTok, and Twitch are building new types of shared experiences for users on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.1<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Third-party video-calling apps can take advantage of the latest FaceTime\u00ae enhancements, including Voice Isolation, Wide Spectrum Audio, and Portrait mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Messaging apps including Slack and WeChat can now share user status in conversations; apps like Uber Eats can have Siri announce incoming messages; and new Notification APIs enable high-priority and communication notifications from apps like Chase Mobile and Zomato to break through Do Not Disturb or a Focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 New camera APIs allow for better fused images and add the ability to capture high-quality stills and 1080p video in the same session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Apple Watch\u00ae developers like Breakpoint Studio, Pandora, Qardio, and more are now creating new app experiences that offer a deeper level of customization, and are more responsive to their users\u2019 environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 With TestFlight on the Mac, developers can test in-app purchases and other great Mac app features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 StoreKit\u2122 2, which ensures in-app purchases are safe and secure for customers, now features new APIs for handling product entitlements and subscriber status, and testing support in both Xcode and the Apple sandbox environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Web developers including Grammarly and Honey are now building extensions in Safari that are available across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Developers can even create new, powerful extensions in the Mail app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Third-party navigation apps can now show a map view in a vehicle\u2019s instrument cluster display, and a new CarPlay\u00ae simulator for Mac vastly improves testing efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Apps can offer the theater-like experience of spatial audio and place sounds all around to bring their content to life. And Physical Audio Spatialization Engine (PHASE) makes it easy for game developers to render true-to-life audio across all of Apple\u2019s platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 ShazamKit\u2122 enables developers to integrate audio recognition technology directly from Shazam\u00ae into their apps, making it possible not only to match music to Shazam’s vast catalog of songs, but also to match any prerecorded audio to custom results developers create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apple is providing developers with a range of new tools and APIs that will push their app experience forward and enable them to create entirely new features \u2014 all built with privacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9619],"tags":[1391,2052,1670,6695,572,8478],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-31610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-api","tag-app-store","tag-apple","tag-augmented-reality","tag-macos","tag-xcode-cloud"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Apple-new-developer-tools-and-technologies-apps-Techxmedia.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"News Desk","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31610"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=31610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}