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News
List of APIs that require declared reasons now available
Announced at WWDC, hereâs a specific list of APIs youâll need to justify using when included in an app you submit to the App Store. Whether you agree with the new rule or not, the good news is that both the list of APIs and the approved reasons are clear. Some of you will disagree, but I think this is a good idea. What depresses me is the reasons we need these rules. đľď¸
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Meet with App Store experts
I love that these online sessions are continuing, and here is a whole new batch covering every time zone. Each session covers a topic, but thereâs live Q&A available, too. Take an hour or so from your day and learn something new about subscriptions, optimising your App Store page, or in-app events. You have very little to lose!
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Code
Adding teachable moments to your apps with TipKit
Here comes TipKit! Ben Dodson takes us through a look at this brand-new framework included in this weekâs beta. I hope never to see a poorly designed tip view ever again now we have this!
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Why you should use OSLog in 2023
Itâs taken a while to get here, but Junda Ong takes us through the latest developments in on-device logging and shows us why we should all be using it.
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Design
My WWDC Design Lab Experience
I can only reiterate Chris Wuâs experience with the design labs at WWDC. At every opportunity, the feedback is constructive and meaningful. Iâm also happy to see him write an account of his lab session from this yearâs WWDC because Iâm sure you can learn some lessons by reading about his experience, too.
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Videos
Swift Macros
If you have 20 minutes free, you could do worse things with it than to join Daniel Steinberg as he brings his signature simplicity to the subject of macros in Swift 5.9.
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I wonât go into detail about what Apple announced regarding testing visionOS apps on Vision Pro hardware this week, as Iâm sure youâve already read about it in their announcement article. Youâve also almost certainly already applied for a lab, a developer kit, a compatibility evaluation, or all three!
Labs and developer kits are great but not particularly surprising as weâve seen programmes like this from Apple alongside other platform launches. Compatibility evaluations are interesting, though. Correct me if Iâm wrong, but I think itâs the first time weâve seen these publicly available for a new platform. Actually, I think this is the first time weâve ever seen any kind of pre-actual-review app review!
There are comprehensive details on what the review will check in the announcement. visionOS is so drastically different to every other iOS-based platform itâs almost unfair to expect people to develop an app without being able to test it, and I expect these reviews to save many hundreds of hours in back and forth with app review as we get close to âday oneâ. It also potentially benefits Apple in training reviewers on what developers plan to do with the device.
It doesnât sound like youâll get opinion-based comments from the reviewers like you would at a WWDC design lab. Itâs more of a âDoes the app work?â, âDoes it violate the guidelines?â and âDoes it behave well in ARâ? You might get more opinion-based feedback in the in-person labs.
If youâre developing something for visionOS, I wish you great luck getting a spot in whatever you applied for, and if youâre not, well, Happy Friday anyway! đ
Dave Verwer