After WWDC 2022 keynote speech, Apple has provided third-party developers with new content such as lock screen widget, weatherkit API and Xcode cloud for IOS 16** For example, the lock screen API can help developers integrate the information of their applications for display on the lock screen interface of IOS.
First, the Xcode cloud cloud development environment is introduced, which allows the development team to place the construction and compilation data of applications in the cloud, and supports real-time collaboration among members and changes to the code base of applications.
Similar to the icloud experience for consumers, Xcode cloud can also save valuable storage space on local devices and allow the development team to simulate the current Apple Carry out large-scale testing in the hardware environment.
In addition, for testflight test channel, Xcode cloud can also make app building easy to deploy to user devices.
It is worth mentioning that the new version of Xcode increases the construction speed by 25% and reduces the application space by 30%.
In addition, in swiftui, Apple also added IOS and ipad One click switch option for OS, MacOS and tvos multi platform compilation.
Swift has regular expression processing function and supports optimizing package management experience in swift package manager, so that developers can easily run custom commands.
Swiftui now has an improved navigation API. By customizing the layout, developers can create a layout tailored to their applications.
In addition, developers can customize swift charts to provide the best data visualization.
Secondly, metal 3 has also become a highlight in the new release. It can be seen that it optimizes the file retrieval time and helps to bring a leap in the graphics experience.
However, weatherkit can integrate the available data sets previously limited to Apple watch into the developer's application.
This mainly uses the dark sky API data obtained by apple in early 2020, which is now available to developers again.
On this basis, Apple also provides privacy oriented advertising / system function APIs to registered developers.
The following are the main APIs mentioned in Apple's official press release:
● widgets on the lock screen
● live text
● collaboration tools
● passkeys
● map Kit
● focus filters
● automatic shortcuts
● watchos 9 related
● roomplan arkit tool
● live activities
Interested developers can start to experience specific APIs from now on.