WWDC Wednesday: pickers, menus, and actions, oh my!
Aaron Brethorst • June 25, 2020
Today ended up being unexpectedly busy, and I ended up watching just a single WWDC session. But, it was a great one, and I'm excited to share a bit about it with you. I watched Build with iOS pickers, menus and actions, which offers details about some of the really exciting changes Apple is making to a number of core UIKit controls in iOS 14.
Specifically, this session covers appearance changes to some UIKit controls...
Read More…WWDC Tuesday Roundup: UICollectionView, WidgetKit, and App Clips
Aaron Brethorst • June 24, 2020
Today was the first full day of WWDC 2020, and it boasted two significant differences from past conferences. The first major change was a Netflix-style simultaneous release of all of the day's sessions at once. This change is delightful, since it means you can watch the sessions you're most interested in whenever may be most convenient for you. The second major change is that session durations vary pretty widely from one to the next. Allowing WWDC sessions to be as long or as short as they nee...
Read More…Tuesday's Most Interesting-Looking WWDC Sessions
Aaron Brethorst • June 23, 2020
Tuesday's WWDC sessions are now all available! This year's average session length is about 20 minutes long, which means you nibble your way through a ton of different sessions in between meetings or while just taking a break. There's a ton of great-looking content; here are some of the highlights.
Sessions that make you go "🤔"
Meet Nearby Interaction
The Ne...
Read More…This One Goes to 11 - WWDC Monday Wrap-Up
Aaron Brethorst • June 22, 2020
On Monday, Apple announced new versions of all their operating systems, including macOS 11 (aka "Big Sur"), which they describe as the biggest change to macOS since Mac OS X. Apple also announced the widely-expected macOS on ARM (or Apple Silicon as they've branded their chips). Developer Transition Kits will be available as soon as this week in the form of a Mac mini with an A12Z processor. Sign up for the Quick Start Program at https://deve...
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Aaron Brethorst • June 22, 2020
WWDC 2020 Predictions
Aaron Brethorst • June 19, 2020
I’ve been a Cocoa developer since 2003, and an iOS developer since it was called iPhoneOS in 2008. I’ve attended WWDC four times: first in 2003 as a student scholarship winner, and then three times in the 2010s. I thought I had a good handle on the WWDC formula, and that I was pretty good at the WWDC prediction game, but COVID-19 has thrown a real curveball at us this year. Nevertheless, we can make some very good guesses about what will be announced this year, based in part on a s...
Read More…Weekly Roundup: WatchKit is coming soon
Aaron Brethorst • November 09, 2014
David Smith, an indie iOS and OS X developer in Virginia, published a great, thoughtful writeup on what he expects to see for developers in the Apple Watch, both later this month and later next year. Smith summarizes what the initial rollout of WatchKit, scheduled for sometime this month, will offer to developers (seemingly feature parity with Android Wear devices, for better or worse). He then postulates, smartly,...
Read More…Control of the Week: StrechyParallaxScrollView
Aaron Brethorst • November 09, 2014
...Weekly Roundup: CurrentC Gets a Serious Black Eye, and Facebook Dumps Core Data
Aaron Brethorst • November 01, 2014
Color me shocked—just shocked—that CurrentC, the ostensible competitor to Apple Pay, has some serious problems. It started with a story on Techcrunch about the "clunky" experience that CurrentC offers:
CurrentC uses QR codes displayed on a cashier’s screen and scanned by the consumer’s phone or vice versa to initiate and verify the transaction.
In comparison, if y...
Read More…Control of the Week: VENTouchLock
Aaron Brethorst • November 01, 2014
Control of the Week: JASwipeCell
Aaron Brethorst • October 27, 2014
Weekly Roundup: Ad Hoc Builds are Dead!
Aaron Brethorst • October 27, 2014
Apple announced earnings this last Monday, and is currently trading around or above its all-time high share price. As it write this, it's at $105.22, the equivalent of $736.54 before its 1:7 split. There were three big announcements this past week that I wanted to highlight for you.
First, Apple's 'new' TestFlight service is now available, and will let you invite up to 1,000 beta users to test out your apps without having to fight with provisioning profiles or UDIDs. This is, for me,...
Read More…Weekly Roundup: New iPads? Meh.
Aaron Brethorst • October 18, 2014
Obviously the biggest news of last week was Apple's event where they announced the iPad Air 2, the iPad mini 3, Yosemite, retina iMacs, and the imminent availability of iOS 8.1 and Apple Pay. I'm still very happy with my retina iPad mini, and can't imagine any scenario where I would've wanted to upgrade, and the iPad mini 3 doesn't offer a sufficiently compelling reason to spend the cash.
But, that said, if I was still using an iPad 2 or 3, or an original iPad mini, I'd probably be p...
Read More…Control of the Week: Google Material Design Icons
Aaron Brethorst • October 18, 2014
Weekly Roundup: iOS 8 Adoption Stalls, GT Advanced Implodes
Aaron Brethorst • October 11, 2014
Two big (and not very happy) stories this week were the news that iOS 8 adoption has stalled, and that GT Advanced—Apple's big bet in sapphire—filed for bankruptcy.
First, it's been pretty widely reported that iOS 8 adoption hasn't made it out of the 40% range yet. In contrast, iOS 7 (despite representing a far great change to the iOS user experience) was already in the 70% range by this time afte...
Read More…Control of the Week: ADTransitionController
Aaron Brethorst • October 11, 2014
Weekly Roundup: Three Stories from Steve
Aaron Brethorst • October 04, 2014
This past Sunday marked the third anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, which was internally recognized at Apple by an email from Tim Cook, and posted by iClarified:
Read More…Team,
Sunday will mark the third anniversary of Steve’s passing. I’m sure that many of you will be thinking of him on that day, as I know I will.
I hope you'...
Control of the Week: INTUAnimationEngine
Aaron Brethorst • October 04, 2014
Weekly Roundup: Security
Aaron Brethorst • September 30, 2014
Hopefully, by now, you've installed Apple's patch for Mavericks that guards against the Shellshock exploit in Bash. At the time I write this, it's still not clear how those of us on Yosemite are supposed to protect ourselves, outside of manually recompiling Bash. Not quite relatedly, I ran across a PDF from Apple last week entitled iOS Security
Read More…Control of the Week: SlackTextViewController
Aaron Brethorst • September 30, 2014
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