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WWDC 2025 returns June 9

Monday, April 21, 2025 by Richard Harris

Apple recently announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) online from June 9 to 13, 2025. Developers and students will also have the opportunity to celebrate in person during a special event at Apple Park on June 9. Available for free to all developers, WWDC25 will spotlight the latest advancements in Apple software. As part of Apple&rsq...

Swift Student Challenge 2025 announced by Apple

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 by Richard Harris

Apple is excited to introduce the Swift Student Challenge, a program dedicated to empowering the next generation of developers, creators, and entrepreneurs. This initiative has allowed thousands of student developers to exhibit their creativity and coding skills through app playgrounds while acquiring valuable real-world experience that can benefit their future careers....

iOS 18 developers need to know this

Friday, September 13, 2024 by Richard Harris

First things first, let's talk about what's new in iOS 18. Apple has packed this release with a plethora of features that will make your apps more powerful, efficient, and user-friendly. Here are some of the highlights: iOS 18 developers need to know: The essentials 1. Enhanced Privacy Features: Apple continues its crusade for user privacy with new to...

App review guidelines updated by Apple

Friday, August 2, 2024 by Richard Harris

Apple recently announced significant updates to its App Review Guidelines, Apple Developer Program License Agreement, and Apple Developer Agreement. These changes are intended to align with updated policies, introduce upcoming features, and provide greater clarity for developers. Apple updates iOS app review guidelines and developer agreements One of the notable u...

Apple Swift Student Challenge winners for 2024

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 by Austin Harris

Apple’s annual Swift Student Challenge recognizes the best in student coding, and this year, it has added a new category to its ranks. Out of 350 winning submissions, 50 students have been named Distinguished Winners for building app playgrounds that stand out for their innovation, creativity, social impact, or inclusivity. These 50 students have been invited to a...

Fake app reviews impact developers more than you think

Thursday, June 29, 2023 by Freeman Lightner

Developers are well aware that a significant portion of online reviews for products and services, including those on popular platforms like Amazon, eBay, and TripAdvisor, are in fact fake. The issue of fake app reviews has become an increasingly pressing concern. These deceptive reviews have wide effects on both developers and consumers alike, significantly impacting th...

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...

Apple WWDC23 rumors

Thursday, June 1, 2023 by Richard Harris

As the highly anticipated Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC23) approaches, Apple developers, enthusiasts, and tech aficionados are buzzing with excitement and sharing rumors. The event is just around the corner and we have gathered the top rumors that are fueling the anticipation for yet another groundbreaking Apple event. Top rumors for WWDC...

ByteDance offering pay to Meta VR developers

Monday, April 24, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

TikTok parent ByteDance is offering to pay developers who have made virtual-reality software for Meta to bring their apps to its own fast-growing Pico headsets. This is just one clear sign of the increased competition between the two companies in the VR space, one that Mark Zuckerberg claims will become the next major computing platform. ByteDance has offered so...

App deletion deadline from Apple

Tuesday, March 29, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

Transcend, the platform that allows users to encode privacy across a company's tech stack has released the results of its latest survey of technology decision-makers, which assessed their readiness for Apple's in-app deletion requirements for iOS apps that offer account creation. The findings show that 71 percent of companies surveyed are not fully prepared...

The impact of iOS14 on digital advertising

Tuesday, July 6, 2021 by Freeman Lightner

The new way to look at ATT opt-in rates reveals 42% of consumer interactions with prompt allow ‘tracking’ (and 48% average per app). We can all but ensure users saw a prompt by isolating those whose ATT status was initially listed as ‘Not Determined’ and then later their status changed to either ‘Authorized’ or ‘Denied’...

2 pillars of privacy: the app developers guide

Thursday, July 1, 2021 by Alex Ritchie

Now that iOS 14.5 has finally made its grand appearance (and shortly thereafter, 14.5.1… then 14.6), everyone seems to be taking stock of its long-awaited and predicted impact on the mobile advertising industry. How has iOS 14.5 affected your company? Developers are taking stock and trying to figure out how the change will ultimately affect their bott...

GameBake launched for developers to reach new markets around the globe

Thursday, May 6, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

GameBake is thrilled to announce it has launched its distribution service for mobile games developers and publishers that wish to reach new markets across the globe. GameBake provides the infrastructure and knowledge needed for developers and publishers to publish their games on a variety of high-quality platforms beyond Google Play and the Apple App Store. Accessibl...

Apple developer guidelines for iOS 14.5 just got real

Monday, April 26, 2021 by Liz Waldeck-Pinckert

The day the mobile app industry has been waiting for has finally arrived. Apple begins enforcing its new privacy features this week with the release of iOS 14.5 – seven full months after the company first announced the changes. Starting this week, consent is mandatory for any and all user tracking. We’ve gone back and forth on what opt-in rates migh...

App Store commission cuts to 15 percent for some

Thursday, November 19, 2020 by Richard Harris

In a move that is echoing througout the dev community, Apple has finally taken mercy on small developers, startups, and others making less than $1,000,000 a year by cutting the commision rate from 30% down to 15%. Accourding to the post made by Apple on their blog, if you are a developer or business earning less than $1M, you just got a raise! About 28 mil...

What Apple iOS developers can expect from iOS 13, iPhone, and more

Tuesday, September 10, 2019 by Richard Harris

Unlike the WWDC held by Apple every year, today is the Apple event any gearhead wants to sit and watch - even if you aren't a developer. New iPhones, new iPads, new Macbooks - there will be no shortage of hardware news coming from Steve Jobs Way, Cupertino, CA. Here is all we know so far, which is largely speculatory -but some of this is founded on actual re...

Apple is about to share your email address with the Republic of Korea

Thursday, December 20, 2018 by Richard Harris

Got a game in the Apple app store and have it set to publish across the entire swath of countries the app store supports? Then your developer email address is about to be shared with the Korean Government due to a change in Korean law. What law changed exactly, we aren't sure yet. But what we do know is almost every developer chooses to distribute in all cou...

CircleCI 2.0 now available for Apple crossplatform apps

Monday, November 27, 2017 by Austin Harris

Apple developers using CircleCI can now access all the benefits of CircleCI 2.0 when building for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, and Apple Watch. Rolled out to cloud customers in July, CircleCI 2.0 is the company’s most significant redesign since inception and marks a major advancement for the platform.Apple developers can build faster thanks to advanced caching strategie...

New iOS and macOS Updates: What VPN Users Need to Know

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 by Richard Harris

Apple rolled out its newest operating system updates – iOS 10 and macOS Sierra. The new updates brought about a lot of exciting new features and upgrades. Apple’s mobile and Mac software is now more integrated: for example, Siri assistant has arrived on the computer. Users are also excited about the Universal Clipboard that allows to choose photos from iPhone and direct...

Sales of laptops from the Summer of 2016 reached $2.2 billion, Apple still king

Tuesday, October 4, 2016 by Austin Harris

According to new research from 1010data, online sales of laptops from the summer of 2016 reached $2.2 billion and grew 12 percent year over year. 1010data uncovered how consumer purchases impacted the biggest players in the laptop space online from June – August 2016. And it turns out that Apple is winning as a brand and as a retailer. This comes from 1010dat...

Dreamforce 2016 is here and we've got 7 hacks for surviving it

Monday, October 3, 2016 by Peter Terhune

Dreamforce: Simultaneously exhilarating and exhausting. As you and thousands of your peers gather for this year’s conference, there are several things to keep in mind for your whirlwind experience in the heart of San Francisco. For both first timers and seasoned veterans of the show, here are seven tips to make your Dreamforce adventure the best possible.1. Know Your Es...

You can now build and run apps in FileMaker Cloud

Monday, October 3, 2016 by Richard Harris

FileMaker, Inc. has released its cloud-based platform for managing and running custom apps, FileMaker Cloud. The offering provides the simplicity, performance and reliability of the FileMaker Platform without having to spend time and resources deploying and maintaining a server.FileMaker enables businesses, both small and large, to quickly and easily deploy custom mobil...

Apple developer patents, hacks, and iOS 10 oh my! October issue lands

Saturday, October 1, 2016 by Richard Harris

It’s hard to believe - but fall is upon us and 2017 is right around the corner. October always ushers in the feeling of campfires, fall-festivals, and what the flip and I going to do with my apps for the holiday season coming up! Not to worry everyone - our October issue is here, and it’s over 90 pages of industry news, tips, and articles ...

10 Gotchas Apple Developers Should Know About in iOS 10

Monday, August 22, 2016 by Richard Harris

With the release of iOS 10 looming (Apple just released beta 7), developers everywhere should be evaluating their code to see if there are any gotcha's coming. Each iOS release comes with it’s own set of benefits for the end-user but there always seems to be that ‘uh-oh’ moment for developers.So I've taken a bit of time to point out a few of the "gotchas" that you shoul...

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...

Apple Releases Open Source Swift Community at Swift.org

Tuesday, December 8, 2015 by Richard Harris

Apple has announced the availability of an open source Swift community, including the new Swift.org which is dedicated to open source Swift. The website hosts resources for developers that want to contribute to Swift, offer fixes, and interact with other developers.Swift.org allows any Apple developer to download the Swift code and in-development builds. More advanced d...

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...

Order Your Apple TV Developer Kit Now Before They Are Gone

Thursday, September 10, 2015 by Richard Harris

Apple developers interested in getting one of the new Apple TV Developer Kits need to act fast as there is a limited supply of the kits available. The kit includes the new Apple TV, Apple TV Remote, Power cord, Lightning to USB Cable, USB-A to USB-C Cable, and documentation.The new Apple TV has built from the ground up with a new generation of hardware and interface usi...

Getting Your App Ready for Apple Watch

Thursday, April 9, 2015 by Richard Harris

If you want to have your app interact with the Apple Watch, you need to get things in gear because the release of the watch is just around the corner on April 24. To help jumpstart your efforts, the Apple developer portal has a section named “Preparing Your App Submission for Apple Watch.” Included are the following guidelines.Optimizing Your WatchKit AppYou’ll need to ...

Salesforce Launches Developer Pack for Apple Watch

Wednesday, March 11, 2015 by Richard Harris

On the heals of the announcement of the release date for the Apple Watch, Salesforce has announced three products for developers interested in leveraging the new technology. These include the Salesforce Analytics Cloud for Apple Watch, Salesforce1 for Apple Watch and Salesforce Wear Developer Pack for Apple Watch. Salesforce Analytics Cloud for Apple WatchSalesforc...

Google's New YouTube Show For Developers

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 by Richard Harris

Google just introduced its new YouTube series for mobile app developers. Its new Route 85 series is just for developers who are looking to learn about developing using iOS. There are even a Dev.Bytes shows featuring the Google Cast introduction to the SDK. Dev.Bytes series on YouTube also feature shows such as Developing an Android Wear Watch Face, Android Wea...

Mobile Developers Can Invite Up To 1,000 Beta Testers Through Apple’s iOS TestFlight App

Friday, October 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson

Apple has announced that developers can now invite up to 1,000 testers to beta test iOS apps by sending them an email invitation through iTunes Connect. Once the individual has accepted the invitation, testers can install the beta app on their iOS devices, get updated builds, and provide feedback, all facilitated through the dedicated iOS TestFlight app.To get an app re...

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...

Apple Introduces a New Sales and Trends Area

Tuesday, February 18, 2014 by Richard Harris

It's been a while since Apple refreshed it's iTunes connect dashboard for developers but today they announced a new look and feature set to the aging "Sales and Trends" area of the website. In a letter sent to developers, they said:"We have released a new version of Sales and Trends on iTunes Connect that introduces interactive features to help you better understand you...

iOS App Rejected = App Developer Dejected: App Store Guidelines Updated

Saturday, August 17, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson

The word is out, Apple has updated its App Store Guidelines. We counted and the word “rejected” appears 88 times, whew! Actually, its not as bad as it seems, most of the information seems pretty straightforward, however one item did catch my eye: “Apps that duplicate Apps already in the App Store may be rejected, particularly if there are many of them, such as fart, b...