Tag: Vision Pro

Over 30 new developer activities are announced by Apple. These include Apple Vision Pro developer labs, App Store sessions, new Apple Vision Pro sessions and 1-on-1 design and technology consultations.

Developers should check schedule for appropriate sessions.

Apple Developer: Over 30 new developer activities now available

Apple reports fiscal results for Q4 2023. Services revenue are reaching all-time high and iPhone sales are up 3% year-over-year.

However, Mac sales are down 34% year-over-year. Apple expects Mac sales to catch up in holiday season.

Tim Cook highlighted that Apple makes investments in generative AI tools. Also, he describes Apple Vision Pro purchase process as something which will have better experience with visit to Apple Store (while it will be available online).

Apple Newsroom: Apple reports fourth quarter results

References:

• Apple announces Q4 2023 earnings, beating expectations with $89.5 billion revenue
• Apple Reports 4Q 2023 Results: $23B Profit on $89.5B Revenue
• Apple Q4 2023 financial results and charts
• Apple Reports Quarterly Revenue of $89.5 Billion for Q4 2023
• Apple CEO Tim Cook on Generative AI: 'We're Investing Quite a Bit'
• Apple expects iPad revenue to decrease next quarter as no new products were launched in 2023
• Apple's Q4 2023 Earnings Call Takeaways
• Tim Cook again says Apple is working on generative AI ‘responsibly’

Apple updates software for Apple Vision Pro developer kit to beta 5. Notably, Xcode does not have beta 5 development software and simulators.

As per report, App Store is now coming preinstalled as of visionOS 1.0 beta 5.

Reference: Apple's Work on visionOS Continues With Beta 5 Launch

Apple opens more Apple Vision Pro developers labs – now in New York and Sydney.

Developers could submit their requests on dedicated page.

Apple Developer: Apple Vision Pro developer labs expand to New York City and Sydney

Reports show that Apple is sending survey for Persona feature for Apple Vision Pro.

Survey apparently is being distributed among developers using Developer Kits.

Apple seems to be working on improvements for Persona and is looking for overall perception of the feature.

It is expected that video communication apps will be able to access virtual 'selfie' camera to make similar experiences available in their apps.

Reference: Apple wants to know what developers think about their ‘Persona’ on Vision Pro

Next week we'll see how new iPhone is better than previous one, so, we have weekend to read about development topics.

• Jordan Morgan talks data management in SwiftUI – Vending Non-Mutating Data in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Get started with StoreKit Testing in Xcode by Natascha Fadeeva explains testing approaches for in-app purchases;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explores new #Preview macro – Exploring the new Preview Macro with SwiftUI and UIKit;
  
  
• And, speaking of macros, Antoine van der Lee goes on #Predicate – Predicate Macro in Swift for filtering and searching;
  
  
• Haptic feedback gets its first-class API support in SwiftUI, Keith Harrison explains those in SwiftUI Sensory Feedback;
  
  
• Marco Eidinger explains how existing API applies for Optic ID in Vision Pro – Develop and test OpticID for Vision Pro;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov starts new topic – thread safety in Swift – Thread safety in Swift with locks;
  
  
• Symbolicating SwiftUI (and any Apple Framework) by Itay Brenner will go through debugging techniques for builds in App Store and TestFlight;
  
  
• Christian Tietze goes into details with arrays and other collections – The Missing Array.appending(contentsOf:);
  
  
• Michael Tsai shares personal experience debugging universal links – Debugging Universal Links;
  
  
• Brian T. Kelley has great series on Objective-C – Objective-C Internals;
  
  
• App Intents for Widgets by Alex Logan goes through new approach configuring widgets.

And that is it for today. See you after the event (and, after our next podcast episode).

Steven Howard shares list of important reads on Apple Vision Pro and visionOS.

GitHub: awesome-visionos

Apple highlights developer interest in Vision Pro SDK. This comments comes on reports on low developer interest in Vision Pro.

Reference: Apple denies low developer interest in Vision Pro; says SDK downloads exceeded expectations

Apple shares developers' feedback after attending Vision Pro developer labs. Apple highlights feedback from authors of Fantastical, Widgetsmith and other applications.

visionOS: Apple Vision Pro developer labs

Apple Developer: Inside the Apple Vision Pro labs

References:

• Fantastical, Widgetsmith, and Spool makers dish on Apple Vision Pro development
• Apple Highlights Developer Reactions to Vision Pro Labs: 'Audible Gasp'
• Apple Publishes Reactions by Attendees of Its Worldwide Vision Pro Labs

Reports arise on developer kit delivery process for Apple Vision Pro.

Developers will need to provide details on their prescription lenses, as well as head measurements in order to receive personalized headset.

Tweet by Mark Gurman provides more details.

Also, Apple Developer website mentions AirTag unpairing process at the end of the loan. Apple is expected to track developer kits. Developer kit also expected to come in lockable Pelican case to protect the device when not in use.

Apple partner manager will be assigned to developers using Vision Pro developer kit to track progress of application development.

References:

• Developers need to measure their heads before they can receive an Apple Vision Pro dev kit
• Vision Pro Developer Kits Will Feature Customized Sizing, Tracking With AirTag
• Here’s what Apple’s doing to prevent Vision Pro dev kits from being left behind in a bar