visionOS SDK and what devs should know
Thursday, June 22, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Apple announced that the visionOS SDK is now available to developers, allowing them to get started on creating innovative app experiences on the Vision Pro. Developers can get access to the SDK through the Apple Developer Program which includes the visionOS SDK, Xcode 15 beta 2, Reality Composer Pro, and the Simulator. Apple is offering dev kits to t...
iOS Developers Can Now Get Weekly App Analytics Email Reports
Thursday, March 10, 2016 by Richard Harris
iOS developers can now opt in to receive a weekly App Analytics email report for their most frequently downloaded apps, with data on App Store Views, App Units, Sales, Sessions, and Crashes. Also available in the report is how much each of these metrics has changed between last week and the previous week. In other quick hitting Apple developer news:- iOS 9.3 beta 6...
Latest Apple Developer Tools Roundup
Saturday, October 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple has released a number of updates of its tooling for developers. Here is a rundown of the most recent releases:- OS X 10.11.1 beta 3 pre-release: This is a pre-release version of OS X v10.11.1.- OS X Server 5.0.15 beta pre-release: This is a pre-release version of OS X Server 5.0.15 for OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and OS X v10.11 and v10.11.1 Developer beta systems.- App...
Latest Apple OSX, iOS and Xcode Releases
Thursday, July 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
Here are the most recent releases and updates by Apple for OSX, iOS and Xcode.OSX- OS X El Capitan 10.11 beta 5: A pre-release update to OS X v10.11. - OS X Server 5.0 beta 4: Pre-release for OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 and OS X v10.11 developer beta systems.- Apple Configurator 2.0 beta: A pre-release app for OS X 10.11 to set up and deploy groups of similarly or identi...
Apple Announces Release Updates to Xcode, iOS 9, and OS X El Capitan
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple has released updates to the beta versions of Xcode, iOS 9, and OS X El Capitan. The Xcode 7 beta 2 release includes the Xcode IDE, Swift 2 compiler, Instruments, Simulator, and latest SDKs for OS X, iOS, and watchOS. iOS 9 beta 2 is a pre-release version of iOS 9 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Devices updated to iOS 9 can not be restored to earlier version...
Apple Allowable iOS App Size Just Went from from 2GB to 4GB
Monday, February 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Of obvious interest to iOS developers is the news that Apple has increased the allowable app size from 2GB to 4GB. That’s a big jump and while most app developers won’t want to take up that much room on a users phone, its does provide more flexibility.Here is what Apple says: The size limit of an app package submitted through iTunes Connect has increased from 2 GB ...
Apple Releases Swift 1.2 and Xcode 6.3 Beta
Monday, February 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple has released Swift 1.2 as part of Xcode 6.3 beta. The Swift team comments that this beta release includes a significantly enhanced Swift compiler, as well as new features in the Swift language itself.On the compiler improvements front, the Swift 1.2 compiler was engineered to be more stable and to improve performance. These changes also provide a better experience...
Release of Xcode 6.2 beta 4, iOS 8.2 SDK with WatchKit in January
Monday, January 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
So what is Apple up to on the development front in January? Here is a quick rundown.- Apple has released Xcode 6.2 beta 4, including iOS 8.2 SDK with WatchKit, with the pre-release version Xcode 6.2 Beta 4 offering the complete Xcode developer toolset for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 (14C106a) is also now available.- The first week of Januar...
Apple Opens New Swift Blog, Announces Xcode 6 Beta 3 for iOS Development
Friday, July 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
As Apple moves forward with the refinement of the new Swift programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, which works side-by-side with Objective-C, it has launched a new Swift specific blog. In Apples words, “This new blog will bring you a behind-the-scenes look into the design of the Swift language by the engineers who created it, in addition to the l...
Get Your Reading Glasses: Apple Publishes 500 Page Behemoth of a Guide for New Swift Programming Language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
From a developer standpoint, one of the top news out of Apple’s WWDC is the new Swift programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, which works side-by-side with Objective-C.Apple is touting the platform as a fast, high-performance LLVM compiler, where Swift code is transformed into optimized native code, tuned to get the most out of modern Mac, iPhone, and iPad hardw...
