Platforms State of the Union

• 3rd party access to “Find My” devices

Apple Silicon

• Goal is to bring mobile hardware innovations to the desktop
• Scalable architecture for different needs
• Brings integrated memory, graphics chips, neural engine, secure enclave to mac
  • Probably means you cant upgrade memory
• Wonder what this means for bootcamp?
• Still a unix machine
• Transition
  • Quick start program
  • Shipping by the end of the year
  • Make your app universal
  • They’ve already converted many open source packages, publishing soon
  • Rosetta provides compatability with intel executables
• Can’t run kernel extensions in emulation
• Virtual machines work, docker will work in the coming months
• iPhone and iPad apps will just run

macOS Big Sur

• Dock is rounded, all icons are rounded squares
  • Hopefully spacers still work!
• Menu bar is atop the desktop background
• Finder has new document icons
• Sheets float above the window instead of down from the top
• App Toolbar has inline title, with new look for buttons
• SF Symbols now available on the mac
• Can set an app specific accent color in you app plist
• Version 11.0

iPadOS

• Sidebar
• New date picker
• Pencil improvements

iOS

• Widgets, reimagined information at a glance
  • Three sizes
  • Available on the home screen
  • Swift UI
  • Performance really matters due to home screen
    • Swift UI archived view
    • WidgetKit
    • Visibility, relevance makes drawing fast
  • Widgets can be stacked, in all sizes
    • Smart stack shows the correct widget based on relevance
• App Clips
  • Light and fast, easy to discover
  • Start with a card, autogenerated based on info submitted to the app store
  • Tap on it to launch the appclip
  • Use with signin with apple and apple pay to make them easy to use
  • Discovery is key
    • New appclip code, like a qr code
    • Links etc
  • Jumps to the part of the app that is relevant to the current location
  • If they upgrade to the full app, settings will be migrated from the clip

Xcode 12

• Moved from the traditional tabs to “document tabs”, with the Italic replacable tab of other editors
• Improved UI previews. Jump back and forth between render and code.
• Improved swift code completion
• Swift packages now support Asset catalogs and swift UI
• Swift UI
  • Has no migration this year, backwards compatible.
  • LazyVStack Can load a bunch of stuff in a layout only when it is visible to display large collections
  • Outline views, paging views
  • Describe the app structure with swift UI too. @main
    • This is so cool, allows almost free multi-platform work