WWDC 2018

• iOS

Speech can enhance the audio experience of your app, whether you are generating spoken feedback for accessibility, or providing critical information beyond simple alerts or notifications. AVSpeechSynthesizer produces synthesized speech from text and allows you to control and monitor the progress...

• iOS

Drag and Drop is a powerful API that allows apps to share and communicate data. No matter how you decide to implement Drag and Drop, there's a way to make it work for people with accessibility needs. Learn the details as we dive into accessible Drag and Drop for iOS.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

The new App Store Connect API provides a familiar and highly readable REST API designed to facilitate the automation of many tasks you would typically perform through the Apple Developer website and the App Store Connect browser interfaces. Learn how this API allows you to manage your apps and...

• iOS, macOS, tvOS

Learn about the latest updates in StoreKit, including offering introductory pricing for subscriptions, requesting ratings and reviews, promoting your in-app purchases within the App Store, and developing in the sandbox environment. Dive deep into best practices for processing transactions and...

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Go beyond the basics and create apps with an exceptional accessibility experience. Learn how to design elements that appear in your app for maximum clarity and accessibility. Discover how to enhance the way users interact with your app even when presenting custom views, or drawing complex UI.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS

Learn the best practices for architecting your subscription infrastructure using StoreKit and server-side logic. Find out about simple engineering techniques to keep your subscribers longer, and how to utilize new tools and APIs to give your subscribers the best experience.

• iOS

VoiceOver provides spoken descriptions and braille output of onscreen elements. Learn how to go beyond the visuals to identify VoiceOver and functional issues to help improve the experience for all users.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

App Store Connect is constantly evolving to improve the experience of managing and deploying your app on App Store. Learn about the new App Store Connect API for managing frequently modified data such as users and groups, see the latest updates to Sales Trends and Analytics reporting, and...

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Learn about new management capabilities for iOS, macOS, and tvOS, tool evolution over the past year, and important changes coming this fall. You'll discover how new MDM features help administrators manage devices more effectively, how educators can enhance the classroom learning environment, and...

• iOS

Search Ads is a great way to help people discover your app in App Store search results. Learn how new market expansion will give you greater opportunities to reach high quality customers. See how Search Ads Advanced new creative variations will help make your app promotion even more effective.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Discover advanced techniques, and tips and tricks for enhancing your Xcode debugging workflows. Learn how to take advantage of LLDB and custom breakpoints for more powerful debugging. Get the most out of Xcode's view debugging tools to solve UI issues in your app more efficiently.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Ever wonder what happens when you build your project in Xcode? Learn how Xcode automates the steps required to build an application, and go behind the scenes to learn how clang, swiftc, and the linker work together to turn your source code into a working program.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Build your apps faster in Xcode 10. Learn how to structure your projects and tweak your code to take full advantage of all processor cores. Whether you've made a few small code changes you want to give a try, or you're building your full app for release, these techniques will cut the time it...

• iOS

Swift Playgrounds is a revolutionary iPad app to teach coding with the powerful Swift programming language. Learn how to create your own content for Swift Playgrounds using the new template, and find out how to use the subscription format to host your own feed online for others to access.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Understand how custom instruments are useful and when they should be used. Get an in-depth view of the architecture of custom instruments and how to create them. Understand the attributes of a good instrument. Dive into advanced modeling and how to use the CLIPS language.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

When you imagine building a new app, what do you think about? Models, views, and controllers deserve their prominent place in the design process, but we don't often give the same attention to the underlying work our apps need to do. Understand how to identify and optimize the algorithms in your...

• iOS, macOS

Discover major advancements in Xcode playgrounds. Learn advanced tips and techniques, hear about new and often overlooked workflows, and rediscover the tools provided when coding in playgrounds.

• macOS

The Swift Package Manager makes it possible to easily develop and distribute source code in the Swift ecosystem. Learn about its goals, design, unique features, and the opportunities it has for continued evolution.

• macOS

Hear from the Apple design team about the principles and concepts that anchor Dark Mode. Learn the basics of enhancing your app with this new appearance, and add an experience that people are sure to love.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Learn how to use signposts and logging to measure performance. Understand how the Points of Interest instrument can be used to examine logged data. Get an introduction into creating and using custom instruments.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

The localization process in Xcode 10 has been updated to aid you through the lifecycle of exporting, importing, and testing localized content in your apps. See new functionality added in Xcode 10 and learn how the new localization catalog helps you build world-class, localized apps.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

All apps benefit from a focus on performance and an increase in overall responsiveness. This information packed session gives you strategies for fixing performance problems using Instruments and other tools. Additionally, get practical advice based on experience in tuning Apple's own apps...

• iOS, macOS

Ideas can live or die by their presentation. Learn indispensable and proven techniques for presenting your design work to better communicate your objectives and receive helpful, valuable and constructive feedback.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Xcode integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab to help you manage your source code, back up your files, and collaborate with others. Find out how to easily see the changes in your project right in the source editor, and learn how to use Xcode for common source control workflows with Git. See...

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Generics are one of the most powerful features of Swift, enabling you to write flexible, reusable components while maintaining static type information. Learn about the design of Swift's generics, including how to generalize protocols, leverage protocol inheritance to express the varying...

• iOS, macOS, tvOS

Testing is an essential tool to consistently verify your code works correctly, but often your code has dependencies that are out of your control. Discover techniques for making hard-to-test code testable on Apple platforms using XCTest. Learn a variety of tips for writing higher-quality tests...

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Sudden app crashes are a source of bad user experience and app review rejections. Learn how crash logs can be analyzed, what information they contain and how to diagnose the causes of crashes, including hard-to-reproduce memory corruptions and multithreading issues.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

The LLVM suite of compiler tools in Xcode 10 have new language features, improved diagnostics, and more powerful optimizations. Find out about improvements to ARC for Objective-C, keep up with the newest additions to C++, get an overview of new and improved diagnostics and static analyzer checks,...

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Hear about the latest advancements in Swift, the safe, fast, and expressive language. Find out about improvements to build times, code size, and runtime performance. Learn how to take advantage of new features in your code that eliminate boilerplate, increase safety and security, and improve your...

• iOS, macOS, tvOS

Hear about exciting improvements to code coverage, including how you can build your own automation on top of Xcode's coverage reports. Learn how to dramatically speed up the execution of your tests by leveraging distributed parallel testing, new in Xcode 10.

• iOS

People expect long battery life on their mobile devices, and apps play a vital role in achieving that experience. Understand how app behavior affects battery consumption, and learn strategies to conserve energy while providing the best experience for your app. Find out how Xcode Energy Reports...

• iOS, tvOS, watchOS

Discover how memory graphs can be used to get a close up look at what is contributing to an app's memory footprint. Understand the true memory cost of an image. Learn some tips and tricks for reducing the memory footprint of an app.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Join us for an unforgettable award ceremony celebrating developers and their outstanding work. The 2018 Apple Design Awards recognize state of the art iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps that reflect excellence in design and innovation.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

2018 Platforms State of the Union

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

WWDC 2018 Keynote

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Turi Create is an open source toolset for creating Core ML models, for tasks such as image classification, object detection, style transfers, recommendations, and more. Learn how you can use Turi Create to build models for your apps.

• iOS

UICollectionView is a flexible, powerful tool to help you achieve great user experiences in your applications. Hear how you can leverage these rich APIs to rapidly move from initial design ideas to polished shipping applications. Topics range from getting started to advanced update animations and...

• iOS, tvOS

AVContentKeySession allows for the management of FairPlay content decryption keys for HTTP Live Streaming. It offers a simplified key loading process that provides applications with control over the lifecycle of content keys, and features such as dual-expiry keys for offline movie rentals. Learn...

• iOS, watchOS

HealthKit provides a consolidated repository for a variety of data including health records containing information such as lab results, immunizations, and medications downloaded directly from institutions. Discover new health records classes and types created to provide easy access to high-level...

• iOS

iOS contains powerful technologies you can use to make your app truly delightful. Learn how to take your app to the next level with easy-to-implement features such as Handoff and External Display support. Preserve that feeling of magic in your app with pro-tips that combine animations, gestures...

• macOS

Step deeper into Dark Mode adoption in your macOS application. Learn about the powerful Cocoa technologies at the core of Dark Mode, and take a detailed look at the APIs and best practices for adapting to this beautiful new look.

• iOS

HealthKit, CoreMotion, and other iOS frameworks combined with the ResearchKit and CareKit open-source projects, provide a deep platform for the creation of game-changing apps for care teams, researchers, and the medical community. Discover new active tasks that leverage calibrated device data and...

• iOS

Make your apps even more powerful and expressive with Apple Pencil. Learn Apple Pencil design best practices such as correctly balancing touch and pencil interactions, fully harnessing Apple Pencil sensors, and creating more efficient and natural user flows.

• iOS, macOS, tvOS

Passwords and security codes are a modern necessity required for security and privacy. iOS 12 eases the tedious aspects of account setup and sign-in by automatically suggesting and using strong, unique passwords — even from within apps — and by bringing one-time codes to the QuickType bar so...

• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

At Apple, we believe in building products with both great features and great privacy. Learn how to apply privacy engineering techniques to your apps so you can build trust with users to unlock better experiences and engagement. And find out how new privacy features can benefit you and your users.

• iOS, watchOS

Siri Shortcuts are a great way to help people execute actions or get information from your app, but shortcuts can be made even more powerful by adding them to Siri to be used with a simple phrase. Learn how you can now customize responses from Siri and add custom UI to make a great shortcuts...

• iOS

Learn how to update your audio or navigation app to support CarPlay. Apps in CarPlay are optimized for use in the car, and automatically adapt to available vehicle screens and input controls. Audio apps can deliver music, news, podcasts, and more. With the new CarPlay framework, Navigation apps...