Hello Developer: December 2023

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Welcome to Hello Developer. In this edition: Check retired caller videos connected Game Center and the Journaling Suggestions API, get visionOS guidance consecutive from the spatial plan team, conscionable 3 App Store Award winners, peek wrong the clip capsule that is Ancient Board Game Collection, and more.

VIDEOS

Manage Game Center with the App Store Connect API

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In this caller video, observe however you tin usage the App Store Connect API to automate your Game Center configurations extracurricular of App Store Connect connected the web.

Manage Game Center with the App Store Connect API

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And find retired however the caller Journaling Suggestions API tin assistance radical bespeak connected the tiny moments and large events successful their lives done your app — each portion protecting their privacy.

Discover the Journaling Suggestions API

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Q&A

Get your spatial plan questions answered

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What’s the champion mode to marque a large archetypal content successful visionOS? What’s a “key moment”? And what are immoderate casual methods for making spatial computing ocular plan look polished? Get answers to these questions and more.

Q&A: Spatial plan for visionOS

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FEATURED

Celebrate the winners of the 2023 App Store Awards

Every year, the App Store celebrates exceptional apps that amended people’s lives portion showcasing the highest levels of method innovation, idiosyncratic experience, design, and affirmative taste impact. Find retired however the winning teams down Finding Hannah, Photomator, and Unpacking approached their unthinkable enactment this year.

“We’re trying to thrust change": Meet 3 App Store Award-winning teams

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Missed the large announcement? Check retired the afloat database of 2023 winners.

NEWS

Xcode Cloud present included with membership

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Starting January 2024, each Apple Developer Program memberships volition see 25 compute hours per period connected Xcode Cloud arsenic a standard, with nary further cost. Learn more.

BEHIND THE DESIGN

Travel backmost successful clip with Ancient Board Game Collection

Klemens Strasser’s Ancient Board Game Collection blends the caller and the very, precise old. Its games day backmost centuries: Hnefatafl is said to beryllium astir 1,700 years old, portion the Italian crippled Latrunculi is person to 2,000. “I recovered a publication connected past committee games by an Oxford prof and it threw maine close down a rabbit hole,” Strasser says. Find retired however the Austria-based developer and a squad of planetary artists gave these past games caller life.

With Ancient Board Game Collection, Klemens Strasser goes backmost successful time

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DOCUMENTATION

Get originative with 3D immersion, games, SwiftUI, and more

This month’s caller illustration code, tutorials, and documentation screen everything from games to passing power betwixt apps to addressing reasons for communal crashes. Here are a fewer highlights:

Game Center matchmaking essentials, rules, and testing: Learn however to make customized matchmaking rules for amended matches betwixt players and trial the rules earlier applying them.
Incorporating real-world surroundings successful an immersive experience: This illustration codification task helps you usage country reconstruction successful ARKit to springiness your app an thought of the signifier of the person’s surroundings and to bring your app acquisition into their world.
Creating a macOS app: Find retired however to bring your SwiftUI app to macOS, including adding caller views tailored to macOS and modifying others to enactment amended crossed platforms.
Creating a watchOS app: Find retired however to bring your SwiftUI app to watchOS, including customizing SwiftUI views to show the item and database views connected watchOS.

View the afloat database of caller resources.

View what’s caller successful the Human Interface Guidelines.

NEWS

Catch up connected the latest updates

App Store vacation schedule: We’ll stay unfastened passim the vacation play and look guardant to accepting your submissions. However, reviews whitethorn instrumentality a spot longer to implicit from December 22 to 27.
Sandbox improvements: Now you tin alteration a trial account’s storefront, set subscription renewal rates, wide acquisition history, simulate interrupted acquisition flows straight connected iPhone oregon iPad, and trial Family Sharing.
New bundle releases: Build your apps utilizing the latest developer tools and trial them connected this week’s OS releases. Download Xcode 15.1 RC, and the RC versions of iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, macOS 14.2, tvOS 17.2, and watchOS 10.2.

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