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What Apple developers need to know at WWDC23
3:00 p.m.There’s never been a better time to create for Apple platforms — including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and all-new visionOS. Get insights from Apple engineers and designers with over 175 brand-new instructional video sessions covering the latest in hardware and software. All to help bring your ideas to over two billion Apple devices worldwide.
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Bring your game to Mac, Part 1: Make a game plan
8:00 a.m.Bring modern, high-end games to Mac and iPad with the powerful features of Metal and Apple silicon. Discover the game porting toolkit and learn how it can help you evaluate your existing Windows game for graphics feature compatibility and performance. We’ll share best practices and technical resources for handling audio, input, and advanced display features. Once you’ve watched this session, check out “Bring your game to Mac, Part 2: Compile your shaders” to learn more about bringing HLSL shaders to Metal.
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Build custom workouts with WorkoutKit
8:00 a.m.WorkoutKit makes it easy to create, preview, and schedule planned workouts for the Workout app on Apple Watch. Learn how to build custom intervals, create alerts, and use the built-in preview UI to send your own workout routines to Apple Watch.
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Build spatial experiences with RealityKit
8:00 a.m.Discover how RealityKit can bring your apps into a new dimension. Get started with RealityKit entities, components, and systems, and learn how you can add 3D models and effects to your app on visionOS. We’ll also take you through the RealityView API and demonstrate how to add 3D objects to windows, volumes, and spaces to make your apps more immersive. And we’ll explore combining RealityKit with spatial input, animation, and spatial audio.
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Develop your first immersive app
8:00 a.m.Find out how you can build immersive apps for visionOS using Xcode and Reality Composer Pro. We’ll show you how to get started with a new visionOS project, use Xcode Previews for your SwiftUI development, and take advantage of RealityKit and RealityView to render 3D content.
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Discover String Catalogs
8:00 a.m.Discover how Xcode 15 makes it easy to localize your app by managing all of your strings in one place. We’ll show you how to extract, edit, export, and build strings in your project using String Catalogs. We’ll also share how you can adopt String Catalogs in existing projects at your own pace by choosing which files to migrate.
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Make features discoverable with TipKit
8:00 a.m.Teach people how to use your app with TipKit! Learn how you can create effective educational moments through tips. We’ll share how you can build eligibility rules to reach the ideal audience, control tip frequency, and strategies for testing to ensure successful interactions.
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Meet ActivityKit
8:00 a.m.Live Activities are a glanceable way for someone to keep track of the progress of a task within your app. We’ll teach you how you can create helpful experiences for the Lock Screen, the Dynamic Island, and StandBy. Learn how to update your app’s Live Activities, monitor activity state, and take advantage of WidgetKit and SwiftUI to build richer experiences.
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Meet Reality Composer Pro
8:00 a.m.Discover how to easily compose, edit, and preview 3D content with Reality Composer Pro. Follow along as we explore this developer tool by setting up a new project, composing scenes, adding particle emitters and audio, and even previewing content on device. Once you’re familiar with the basics of Reality Composer Pro, check out "Explore Materials in Reality Composer Pro" and "Work with Reality Composer Pro content in Xcode" to learn more advanced techniques and tips.
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Meet Safari for spatial computing
8:00 a.m.Discover the web for visionOS and learn how people can experience your web content in a whole new way. Explore the unique input model powering this platform and learn how you can optimize your website for spatial computing. We’ll also share how emerging standards are helping shape 3D experiences for the web.
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Meet SwiftUI for spatial computing
8:00 a.m.Take a tour of the solar system with us and explore SwiftUI for visionOS! Discover how you can build an entirely new universe of apps with windows, volumes, and spaces. We’ll show you how to get started with SwiftUI on this platform as we build an astronomy app, add 3D content, and create a fully immersive experience to transport people to the stars.
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Meet watchOS 10
8:00 a.m.Discover some of the most significant changes to Apple Watch since its introduction as we tour the redesigned user interface and the new Smart Stack. Learn how Apple designers approached the design of watchOS 10 as we explore layout, navigation, and visual style, and find out how you can apply them to create a great app for Apple Watch.
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Run your iPad and iPhone apps in the Shared Space
8:00 a.m.Discover how you can run your existing iPad and iPhone apps on Vision Pro. Learn how iPadOS and iOS apps operate on this platform, find out about the Designed for iPad experience, and explore the paths available for enhancing your app experience on visionOS.
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Unleash the UIKit trait system
8:00 a.m.Discover powerful enhancements to the trait system in UIKit. Learn how you can define custom traits to add your own data to UITraitCollection, modify the data propagated to view controllers and views with trait override APIs, and adopt APIs to improve flexibility and performance. We’ll also show you how to bridge UIKit traits with SwiftUI environment keys to seamlessly access data from both UIKit and SwiftUI components in your app.
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What’s new in Swift
8:00 a.m.Join us for an update on Swift. We’ll show you how APIs are becoming more extensible and expressive with features like parameter packs and macros. We’ll also take you through improvements to interoperability and share how we’re expanding Swift’s performance and safety benefits everywhere from Foundation to large-scale distributed programs on the server.
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What’s new in SwiftUI
8:00 a.m.Learn how you can use SwiftUI to build great apps for all Apple platforms. Explore the latest updates to SwiftUI and discover new scene types for visionOS. Simplify your data models with the latest data flow options and learn about the Inspector view. We’ll also take you through enhanced animation APIs, powerful ScrollView improvements, and a host of refinements to help you make tidier tables, improve focus and keyboard input, and so much more.
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What’s new in Xcode 15
8:00 a.m.Discover the latest productivity and performance improvements in Xcode 15. Explore enhancements to code completion and Xcode Previews, learn about the test navigator and test report, and find out more about the streamlined distribution process. We’ll also highlight improved navigation, source control management, and debugging.
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Bring widgets to life
8:00 a.m.Learn how to make animated and interactive widgets for your apps and games. We’ll show you how to tweak animations for entry transitions and add interactivity using SwiftUI Button and Toggle so that you can create powerful moments right from the Home Screen and Lock Screen.
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Build an app with SwiftData
8:00 a.m.Discover how SwiftData can help you persist data in your app. Code along with us as we bring SwiftData to a multi-platform SwiftUI app. Learn how to convert existing model classes into SwiftData models, set up the environment, reflect model layer changes in UI, and build document-based applications backed by SwiftData storage. To get the most out of this session, you should be familiar SwiftData. For an introduction, check out "Meet SwiftData" from WWDC23.
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Build programmatic UI with Xcode Previews
8:00 a.m.Learn how you can use the #Preview macro on Xcode 15 to quickly iterate on your UI code written in SwiftUI, UIKit, or AppKit. Explore a collage of unique workflows for interacting with views right in the canvas, find out how to view multiple variations of UI simultaneously, and discover how you can travel through your widget’s timeline in seconds to test the transitions between entries. We’ll also show you how to add previews to libraries, provide sample assets, and preview your views in your physical devices to leverage their capabilities and existing data.
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Get started with privacy manifests
8:00 a.m.Meet privacy manifests: a new tool that helps you accurately identify the privacy practices of your app’s dependencies. Find out how third-party SDK developers can use these manifests to share privacy practices for their frameworks. We’ll also share how Xcode can produce a full privacy report to help you more easily represent the privacy practices of all the code in your app.
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Inspectors in SwiftUI: Discover the details
8:00 a.m.Meet Inspectors — a structural API that can help bring a new level of detail to your apps. We’ll take you through the fundamentals of the API and show you how to adopt it. Learn about the latest updates to sheet presentation customizations and find out how you can combine the two to create perfect presentation experiences.
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Simplify distribution in Xcode and Xcode Cloud
8:00 a.m.Discover how to share your app using Xcode’s streamlined distribution, which allows you to submit your app to TestFlight or the App Store with one click. We’ll also show you how to use Xcode Cloud to simplify your distribution process by automatically including notes for testers in TestFlight, and use post-action to automatically notarize your Mac apps.
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Verify app dependencies with digital signatures
8:00 a.m.Discover how you can help secure your app’s dependencies. We’ll show you how Xcode can automatically verify any signed XCFrameworks you include within a project. Learn how code signatures work, the benefits they provide to help protect your software supply chain, and how SDK developers can sign their XCFrameworks to help keep your apps secure.
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What’s new in AppKit
8:00 a.m.Discover the latest advances in Mac app development. We’ll share improvements to controls and menus and explore the tools that can help you break free from your (view) bounds. Learn how to add motion to your user interface, take advantage of improvements to text input, and integrate your existing code with Swift and SwiftUI.
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Prototype with Xcode Playgrounds
8:00 a.m.Speed up feature development by prototyping new code with Xcode Playgrounds, eliminating the need to keep rebuilding and relaunching your project to verify your changes. We’ll show you how using a playground in your project or package can help you try out your code in various scenarios and take a close look at the returned values, including complex structures and user interface elements, so you can quickly iterate on a feature before integrating it into your project.
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Meet Swift OpenAPI Generator
8:00 a.m.Discover how Swift OpenAPI Generator can help you work with HTTP server APIs whether you’re extending an iOS app or writing a server in Swift. We’ll show you how this package plugin can streamline your workflow and simplify your codebase by generating code from an OpenAPI document.
