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Two students detail an "amazing" experience at Apple's WWDC18

For most of Apple's installed base, WWDC is a dramatic keynote address detailing the future of Apple's platforms—sometimes involving hardware product launches. But for attendees, the week-long conference is an opportunity to gain deeper insight into how things work in a series of Sessions; direct access to Apple's engineers in a series of Labs and the opportunity to meet and share experiences with other developers working on similar problems at Get-Togethers and other events, including the Thursday Bash.

Daniel Eran Dilger | 6 years ago

How Apple is making animations smoother in iOS 12

Users of iOS 12 may find the user interface to scroll smoother and process animations with fewer dropped frames compared to previous versions, thanks to a series of changes Apple made.

Malcolm Owen | 6 years ago

Apple Maps extends to the web with MapKit JS beta

Apple is expanding what can be done with Apple Maps, announcing at WWDC 2018 that MapKit JS can be used to embed maps within a website, a function that has been offered by its competition for a considerable amount of time.

Malcolm Owen | 6 years ago

Apple rebrands iTunes Connect as 'App Store Connect,' adds new app management features

Apple on Monday introduced developers to App Store Connect, a streamlined process for submitting, monitoring and managing App Store titles from the web and, with the help of a new iOS app, iPhone and iPad.

AppleInsider Staff | 6 years ago

Apple opens first developer academy in Indonesia

Apple's new app accelerator facility near Jakarta, is the first of its kind in Asia and uses the same education model as the one in India.

Stephen Silver | 6 years ago

Google ML Kit aims to help developers add machine learning to their iOS apps

Google launched a new machine learning SDK called ML Kit, which provides a way for developers to add machine learning-based features to their Android and iOS apps, with Google's new framework following almost a year after Apple introduced the similar Core ML platform.

Malcolm Owen | 6 years ago

Apple partners with British government on 'Year of Engineering' educational effort

The "Year of Engineering" Partnership that is currently underway will include AI coding workshops in all U.K. Apple Stores at the behest of the country's government.

Stephen Silver | 6 years ago

Apple opens application process for 350 WWDC scholarships

As it has done in most other years, Apple has started taking WWDC scholarship applications for attendees that could not otherwise afford to attend the $1500 event.

Mike Wuerthele | 6 years ago

Apple's Swift developers discuss enhancements coming in Swift 4.1

Members of Apple's Swift Core team made a special appearance on the Swift Unwrapped podcast to discuss enhancements being rolled out as part of Swift 4.1 and how the company is expanding upon its efforts to engage with the community.

Daniel Eran Dilger | 6 years ago

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Apple invites developers to app workshop in Paris' Station F startup incubator

Apple is believed to be organizing a developer workshop in Paris next week, according to French Apple-specialist media, with the event apparently being held at a tech startup center called 'Station F,' a facility thought to have a small Apple team in residence to help developers working in the incubator.

Malcolm Owen | 6 years ago

Apple rolls out fourth developer beta of watchOS 4.3

A day after the macOS High Sierra 10.13.4, iOS 11.3, and tvOS 11.3 betas were updated, Apple has made available the fourth developer beta of watchOS 4.3

Mike Wuerthele | 6 years ago

Google ships first beta of Flutter framework for developing both iOS and Android apps

Google has released its first beta of Flutter, a mobile user interface framework that intends to help developers create interfaces for their apps on iOS as well as Android smartphones, a toolkit that could speed up and simplify cross-platform app development.

Malcolm Owen | 6 years ago

Khronos Group ships tools bringing Vulkan graphics API to iOS and MacOS

The Khronos Group has released new open source tools that allows the Vulkan API, a 3D graphics API, to work on iOS and macOS, a move that can make it easier for developers to port games to Apple's hardware from other platforms, while still taking advantage of technologies like Apple's Metal graphics API.

Malcolm Owen | 6 years ago

Apple error sends Search Ads Basic advertising reports to wrong developers

An issue with the way Apple provides reports to iPhone and iPad app developers about advertising and installation rates has been uncovered, with a number of app developers claiming to receive reports for apps belonging to other developers instead of their own creations.

Malcolm Owen | 6 years ago