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Here are some of the key updates presented at WWDC 2024:
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StoreKit and In-App Purchase:
- New features in StoreKit and enhancements to the testing experience in Xcode.
- Updates to transaction history APIs to include finished consumable transactions.
- New ways to build merchandising UI using SwiftUI.
- What’s new in StoreKit and In-App Purchase
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UIKit:
- Enhancements in iOS 18, including a redesigned launch experience for document-based apps.
- Major updates to tabs and sidebar, and support for new fluid transitions.
- Integration improvements between UIKit and SwiftUI.
- What’s new in UIKit
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SwiftUI:
- New features to make apps feel brand new, tools to refine apps for every platform, and improvements to foundational building blocks.
- New tab view, mesh gradients, and snappy controls.
- Enhanced graphics capabilities, including a new mix modifier on color and precompiled shaders.
- What’s new in SwiftUI
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App Store Connect:
- New features in TestFlight and App Store Connect to help get apps discovered and grow on the App Store.
- Featuring nominations to connect developers with editorial opportunities.
- What’s new in App Store Connect
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AppKit:
- Improvements in macOS Sequoia, including system-wide writing tools and API refinements.
- Enhanced integration with SwiftUI and new features like window tiling and text highlighting.
- What’s new in AppKit
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Xcode 16:
- Updates in editing, including improved code completion and concurrency safety guarantees in Swift 6.
- Enhancements in builds, debugging, and testing.
- What’s new in Xcode 16
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Wallet and Apple Pay:
- Updates to Apple Pay on the web, allowing use on non-Safari browsers via a code scan with an iPhone.
- Enhancements to the user experience for ticketing.
- What’s new in Wallet and Apple Pay
These sessions provide a comprehensive overview of the new features and improvements across various Apple platforms and tools.
What’s new in UIKit
Explore everything new in UIKit, including tab and document launch experiences, transitions, and text and input changes. We’ll also discuss better-than-ever interoperability between UIKit and SwiftUI animations and gestures, as well as general improvements throughout UIKit.
What’s new in Xcode 16
Discover the latest productivity and performance improvements in Xcode 16. Learn about enhancements to code completion, diagnostics, and Xcode Previews. Find out more about updates in builds and explore improvements in debugging and Instruments.
What’s new in AppKit
Discover the latest advances in Mac app development. Get an overview of the new features in macOS Sequoia, and how to adopt them in your app. Explore new ways to integrate your existing code with SwiftUI. Learn about the improvements made to numerous AppKit controls, like toolbars, menus, text input, and more.
What’s new in Wallet and Apple Pay
Take passes and payments to the next level with new enhancements to Wallet and Apple Pay. Make your event tickets shine with rich pass designs in Wallet, and bring great Apple Pay experiences to even more people with third-party browser support. We’ll also look at how to disburse funds with Apple Pay on the Web and highlight new API changes that help you integrate Apple Pay into even more purchasing flows.
What’s new in StoreKit and In-App Purchase
Learn how to build and deliver even better purchase experiences using the App Store In-App Purchase system. We’ll demo new StoreKit views control styles and new APIs to improve your subscription customization, discuss new fields for transaction-level information, and explore new testability in Xcode. We’ll also review an important StoreKit deprecation.
What’s new in App Store Connect
Explore new features for discovery, testing, and marketing. Find out how to nominate your apps for featuring on the App Store, share exciting moments (like a version launch) with marketing assets generated for you, deep link to specific content in your app from custom product pages, use the latest enhancements to TestFlight, and more.
What’s new in SwiftUI
Learn how you can use SwiftUI to build great apps for any Apple platform. Explore a fresh new look and feel for tabs and documents on iPadOS. Improve your window management with new windowing APIs, and gain more control over immersive spaces and volumes in your visionOS apps. We’ll also take you through other exciting refinements that help you make expressive charts, customize and layout text, and so much more.