WWDC 2021 Keynote Highlights: Huge Updates For iOS Developers

As the biggest tech event Apple’s WWDC 2021 Keynote day 1 highlights moves further to day 2, the company unveiled the latest tools and technologies to support the iOS development community. These advances will help to create enhanced app experiences while making it flexible high-quality iOS app development. 

From the upgrades of the Xcode framework to enhancing the AR-VR development (augmented & virtual reality), Apple brings the integration of various storage options on the cloud. So, not wasting time any further and let’s start with the crucial updates and announcements:

#1 Xcode Cloud

Xcode Cloud is another ceaseless mix and flexible cloud management planned explicitly for Apple developers. Incorporated into Xcode 13, Xcode Cloud offers a Swift and straightforward route for developers and communities, all things considered, to construct, test, and convey top-notch applications significantly more effectively.

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Xcode Cloud can consequently construct applications in the cloud to let loose developers’ Macs for different assignments. Equal testing in the cloud implies developers can test on a mimicked rendition of each current Apple gadget, then, at that point effectively send a form of the mobile app usability for interior testing, or convey to outside beta analyzers through TestFlight for moment input.

#2 App Store

With more applications and games highlighting occasions like live gaming, film trailers, live-streamed encounters, and substantially more, it’s presently simpler for users to find these events directly on the App Store. Developers will also find this pointer in any mobile app store optimization guide to revamp their app recognition activities.

This enormously grows the span of developers’ events — interfacing them with new users, keep their present users educated, or reconnect them with past users. It’s a totally different path for developers to feature what’s going on in their applications.

A top-mentioned include among developers, Apple is presenting new product page tools that offer developers more prominent adaptability and better approaches to associate with users directly in the App Store.

Custom Product Pages let developers exhibit various highlights of their application for various users, while Product Page Optimization enables developers to test distinctive screen captures, review recordings, and even application symbols.

With rich, security well-disposed analysis in App Store Connect, developers can perceive what their users like most and settle on the best choices for their product pages. Moreover, you can easily promote your app on Apple app store with these updates.

#3 Augmented Reality

Apple has the world’s biggest augmented reality platform with more than 1 billion AR-VR development gadgets controlled by ARKit, a structure that permits developers to handily make AR encounters, and RealityKit, the delivering, liveliness, sound, and physical science motor worked from the beginning for AR.

RealityKit 2 presents Object Capture, a straightforward and incredible API on macOS Monterey that empowers developers — like Wayfair, Etsy, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg — to make top caliber, photograph sensible 3D models of genuine articles in minutes by making photographs effort on iPhone, iPad, or DSLR and changing them into 3D models upgraded for AR.

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With new APIs in RealityKit 2, developers can likewise make more reasonable and complex AR encounters with more noteworthy visual, sound, and movement control, including custom, render passes, and dynamic shaders.

#4 Swift

Swift — Apple’s incredible and instinctive programming language — presently includes worked in simultaneousness support. This implies developers can all the more effectively compose code that takes care of jobs in equal, which is critical to building applications that are receptive to user input while accomplishing more work behind the scenes.

With Swift design patterns updates, developers can compose Swift, current, safe code with fewer missteps, and exploit the amazing multicore silicon across Apple’s gadgets. SwiftUI has rethought UI advancement by making it simpler to foster extraordinary-looking applications with as little code as could be expected.

Presently SwiftUI moves forward, assisting developers with carrying extraordinary encounters to every one of their users. This involves the utilization of top iOS development tools for improving rundown sees, search encounters, in-app availability highlights, multicolumn tables, thus considerably more.

#5 Graphics & Games

New APIs and devices in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS will assist game developers with making the up and coming age of games and convey all-new encounters to their users. Another Metal surface pressure apparatus upholds the entirety of the most recent configurations, just as improved systems for Apple silicon.

You must have seen previously how Apple arcade reshaping mobile gaming with excellent features. Now, this update clears a path for developers to assemble very good quality games that are viable with the entirety of Apple’s foundation. Likewise, another Virtual Game Controller on iPhone and iPad gives a simple technique to enhance games that form in Video Game Controller support.

#6 Additional Updates For iOS Development Community

• With SharePlay, popular apps like Disney+, ESPN+, HBO Max, Hulu, MasterClass, Paramount+, TikTok, and Twitch are building new types of shared experiences for users on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.1
• Applications can offer the theater-like insight of spatial sound and spot sounds all around to rejuvenate their substance. What’s more, Physical Audio Spatialization Engine makes it simple for game developers to deliver consistently with life sound across the entirety of Apple’s foundation.
• Apple Watch developers like Breakpoint Studio, Pandora, Qardio, and more are currently making new app encounters that offer a more profound degree of customization, and are more receptive to their user’s current situations.
• Interaction apps including Slack and WeChat would now be able to share user status in discussions; applications like Uber Eats can have Siri approaching messages, and new Notification APIs empower high-need and interactive alerts from applications like Chase Mobile and Zomato to get through Do Not Disturb or a Focus.
• ShazamKit empowers developers to incorporate sound acknowledgment innovation straightforwardly from Shazam into their applications, making it conceivable not exclusively to coordinate with music to Shazam’s tremendous index of melodies yet additionally to coordinate with any prerecorded sound to custom outcomes developers make.
• With TestFlight on the Mac, developers can test in-app buys and other incredible Mac application features. 
• StoreKit 2, which guarantees in-app buys are free from any danger for users, presently includes new APIs for taking care of product qualifications and endorser status and testing support in both Xcode and the Apple sandbox climate.
• Third-party navigation apps would now be able to show a guide see in a vehicle’s tool group show, and another CarPlay test system for Mac immeasurably improves testing productivity.

Key Takeaways

Surely, these crucial updates are meant to enhance the experience of iOS development. And all these announcements, as well as releases, will revamp the environment of the building, testing, and launching high-quality apps on App Store.

That’s all for now, and we have been continuously looking for more updates regarding Apple software applications and other technical specifications. Stay tuned for more updates from WWDC 2021 keynote event.

Ashish Chauhan

Global Delivery Head

Global Delivery Head at Appventurez, Ashish governs the process of software delivery operations. He ensures the end product attains the highest remarks in qualitative analysis and is streamlined to the clientele’s objectives. He has over a decade of experience as an iOS developer and teams mentorship.