How do I build a kiosk app?

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To build a kiosk app, you can leverage several sessions from WWDC that provide relevant insights and techniques. Here are some steps and resources to help you get started:

  1. Designing for the Platform:

    • VisionOS: If you are targeting VisionOS, you can start by understanding how to design great apps for this platform. The session Design great visionOS apps provides insights into building immersive and comfortable experiences tailored to VisionOS.
  2. Building the User Interface:

    • SwiftUI: SwiftUI is a powerful framework for building user interfaces across all Apple platforms. The session Migrate your TVML app to SwiftUI discusses how to create familiar and interactive UI components, which can be very useful for a kiosk app.
  3. Customizing the Launch Experience:

    • Document Launch Experience: If your kiosk app involves document handling or a specific launch experience, the session Evolve your document launch experience provides a detailed overview of how to customize the launch experience to showcase your app's unique identity.
  4. Capture Experiences:

  5. Health Data Integration:

    • HealthKit in VisionOS: If your kiosk app needs to integrate health data, the session Get started with HealthKit in visionOS provides best practices for designing health-related apps for VisionOS.

Relevant Sessions:

  1. Design great visionOS apps
  2. Migrate your TVML app to SwiftUI
  3. Evolve your document launch experience
  4. Build a great Lock Screen camera capture experience
  5. Get started with HealthKit in visionOS

By following these sessions, you can gather the necessary knowledge and tools to build a robust and user-friendly kiosk app.

Design great visionOS apps

Design great visionOS apps

Find out how to create compelling spatial computing apps by embracing immersion, designing for eyes and hands, and taking advantage of depth, scale, and space. We’ll share several examples of great visionOS apps and explore how their designers approached creating new experiences for the platform.

Get started with HealthKit in visionOS

Get started with HealthKit in visionOS

Discover how to use HealthKit to create experiences that take full advantage of the spatial canvas. Learn the capabilities of HealthKit on the platform, find out how to bring an existing iPadOS app to visionOS, and explore the special considerations governing HealthKit during a Guest User session. You’ll also learn ways to use SwiftUI, Swift Charts, and Swift concurrency to craft innovative experiences with HealthKit.

Evolve your document launch experience

Evolve your document launch experience

Make your document-based app stand out, and bring its unique identity into focus with the new document launch experience. Learn how to leverage the new API to customize the first screen people see when they launch your app. Utilize the new system-provided design, and amend it with custom actions, delightful decorative views, and impressive animations.

Migrate your TVML app to SwiftUI

Migrate your TVML app to SwiftUI

SwiftUI helps you build great apps on all Apple platforms and is the preferred toolkit for bringing your content into the living room with tvOS 18. Learn how to use SwiftUI to create familiar layouts and controls from TVMLKit, and get tips and best practices.

Build a great Lock Screen camera capture experience

Build a great Lock Screen camera capture experience

Find out how the LockedCameraCapture API can help you bring your capture application’s most useful information directly to the Lock Screen. Examine the API’s features and functionality, learn how to get started creating a capture extension, and find out how that extension behaves when the device is locked.

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