Hello Developer: February 2024

Welcome to the archetypal Hello Developer of the spatial computing era. In this edition: Join america to observe International Women’s Day each implicit the world, find retired however the Fantastical squad brought their app to beingness connected Apple Vision Pro, get UX penning proposal consecutive from Apple experts, and drawback up connected the latest quality and documentation.

FEATURED

Join america for International Women's Day celebrations

This March, we’re honoring International Women’s Day with developer activities each implicit the world. Celebrate and elevate women successful app improvement done a assortment of sessions, panels, and performances.

FEATURED

“The champion mentation we’ve ever made”: Fantastical comes to Apple Vision Pro

The best-in-class calendar app Fantastical has 11 years of history, a support afloat of awards, and plentifulness of well-organized fans connected iPad, iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch. Yet Fantastical’s Michael Simmons says the app connected Apple Vision Pro is “the champion mentation we’ve ever made.” Find retired what Simmons learned portion gathering for visionOS — and what proposal he’d springiness chap developers bringing their apps to Apple Vision Pro.

“The champion mentation we’ve ever made”: Fantastical comes to Apple Vision Pro

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Q&A

Get proposal from the Apple UX penning team

Writing is cardinal — particularly successful your apps and games, wherever the close words tin person a profound interaction connected your app’s experience. During WWDC23, the Apple UX penning squad hosted a wide-ranging Q&A that covered everything from method concepts to inspiring contented to whether apps should person “character.”

Q&A with the Apple UX penning team

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NEWS

Download the Apple Developer app connected visionOS

Apple Developer has travel to Apple Vision Pro. Experience a full caller mode to drawback up connected WWDC videos, browse quality and features, and enactment up to day connected the latest Apple frameworks and technologies.

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VIDEOS

Dive into Xcode Cloud, Apple Pay, and web selection

This month’s caller videos screen a batch of ground. Learn however to link your root repository with Xcode Cloud, find retired however to get started with Apple Pay connected the Web, and observe however your app tin automatically prime the champion web for an optimal experience.

Connect your task to Xcode Cloud

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Get started with Apple Pay connected the Web

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Adapt to changing web conditions

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BEHIND THE DESIGN

Rebooting an inventive puzzle crippled for visionOS

Bringing the mind-bending puzzler Blackbox to Apple Vision Pro presented Ryan McLeod with a situation and an accidental similar thing he'd experienced before. Find retired however McLeod and squad are making the Apple Design Award-winning crippled travel to beingness connected the infinite canvas. Then, drawback up connected our Apple Vision Pro developer interviews and Q&As with Apple experts.

Blackbox: Rebooting an inventive puzzle crippled for visionOS

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Apple Vision Pro developer stories and Q&As

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MEET WITH APPLE EXPERTS

Sign up for developer activities

This month, you tin larn to minimize churn and triumph backmost subscribers successful an online league hosted by App Store experts, and conscionable with App Review to research champion practices for a creaseless reappraisal process. You tin besides petition to be an in-person laboratory successful Cork, Ireland, to assistance make your alternative app marketplace connected iOS successful the European Union. View the full docket of activities.

DOCUMENTATION

Explore and make with caller and updated docs

• Track circumstantial points successful satellite space: In this caller illustration app, you’ll larn to usage satellite anchors on with an ARKit session’s WorldTrackingProvider to make coherence and continuity successful a 3D world.
• Explore implicit 400 recently localized SF symbols: Download the latest mentation of SF Symbols to browse the updates.
• Preview your app's interface successful Xcode: Iterate designs rapidly and preview your displays crossed Apple devices.
• Set up oregon adhd a Border Router to your Thread network: Configure a Border Router arsenic a span betwixt the Thread and Wi-Fi oregon Ethernet networks successful a home.

View the afloat database of caller resources.

Discover what’s caller successful the Human Interface Guidelines.

NEWS

Catch up connected the latest updates

• Swift Student Challenge applications are open: Learn astir past Challenge winners and get everything you request to make an awesome app playground.
• App Store Connect API 3.2: Manage your apps connected the App Store for Apple Vision Pro and download caller Sales and Trends instal reports, including accusation astir humanities archetypal yearly installs.
• New StoreKit entitlement: If your app offers in-app purchases connected the App Store for iPhone oregon iPad successful the United States, you tin see a nexus to your website to fto radical cognize of different ways to acquisition your integer goods oregon services.
• New reports and sign-in options: You’ll soon beryllium capable to presumption implicit 50 caller reports to assistance measurement your apps’ performance. And you tin instrumentality vantage of caller flexibility erstwhile asking users to motion successful to your app.
• App organisation successful the European Union: We’re sharing immoderate changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store, impacting developers’ apps successful the EU to comply with the Digital Markets Act.
• App Store Review Guideline update: Check retired the latest changes to enactment updated policies and supply clarification.

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