Category: visionOS

Apple adds visionOS Sketch UI element library and templates.

Apple Developer: Design – visionOS

This week brought us visionOS SDK, so probably you're spending your weekend building new great spatial computing app, and we've got couple of great reads to shift your attention.

• Natascha Fadeeva guides on using NLP on how to split text into words – Quick tip on how to split text into words with the Natural Language framework in Swift.;
  
  
• Keith Harrison combines lab notes on SwiftData – WWDC23 SwiftData Lab Notes;
  
  
• Mastering ScrollView in SwiftUI. Target Behavior by Majid Jabrayilov explores new SwiftUI ScrollView features;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee provides productivity hints on Xcode – Xcode Bookmarks: Save code landmarks & organize tasks;
  
  
• And another one by Michal Tynior – How to fix the "The file “.swiftlint.yml” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it" issue;
  
  
• Paul Hudson shares important accessibility feature you might want to adopt – I screwed up one key accessibility behavior, and now I'm on a mission to do better;
  
  
• Finally, good read on how to retain and gain back users by Peter Meinertzhagen – 9 ways to win-back users who have turned off auto-renew.

That is it for this weekend. This list is shorter than usual, so you'll have more time to play with visionOS tools.

App Store Connect app updated with support for visionOS apps. This will allow developers to submit builds to TestFlight. This might be useful when Developer Kits would be available.

App Store: App Store Connect

Reference: App Store Connect adds visionOS app support ahead of Vision Pro launch

Researches discovered 'Travel Mode' related resources in visionOS code.

Some of text prompts include:

• Are you on an airplane?
• If you're on an airplane, you'll need to keep Travel Mode on to continue using your ‌Apple Vision Pro‌.
• Remain stationary in Travel Mode.
• Remain stationary while this mode turns off.
• Some awareness features will be off.
• The current fit may reduce gaze accuracy.
• Turn on Travel Mode when you're on an airplane to continue using your ‌Apple Vision Pro‌.
• Your representation is unavailable while Travel Mode is on.

Developers might need to pay attention to 'Travel Mode', checking if app is still usable with reduced gaze accuracy.

Another interesting fact that current build of visionOS is only translated to couple of languages.

References:

• Apple Vision Pro to Feature 'Travel Mode' for Better In-Flight Experience
• Apple Vision Pro has a speed limit, Travel Mode required for use on flights

Apple updates Human Interface Guidelines with information on visionOS design principles. Design resources, including Figma design kits are available.

Apple Developer:

• Designing for visionOS
• Design resources – visionOS

Figma: visionOS

Great day for visionOS early adopters. Developers now have access to visionOS SDK as a part of Xcode 15 beta 2 package.

Apple also publishes beta 2 for iOS/iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, macOS Sonoma 14, tvOS 17.

Access to hardware developer kits and developer lab registrations for Vision Pro device debugging will start in July.

Apple Newsroom: Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro now available

Apple Developer:

• Spotlight on: Developer tools for visionOS
• visionOS SDK now available

Beta download: Operating Systems

Release notes:

• iOS & iPadOS 17 Beta 2 Release Notes
• macOS Sonoma 14 Beta 2 Release Notes
• watchOS 10 Beta 2 Release Notes
• tvOS 17 Beta 2 Release Notes
• Xcode 15 Beta 2 Release Notes

We're all still processing the WWDC announcements, watching sessions, reading reviews. And here is another pack of good reads.

• Let's start with some fundamental reads – June 2023: What's new in the Swift Community? by Tiago Gomes Pereira goes through important announcements;
  
  
• WWDC 2023 Viewing Guide by Keith Harrison navigates through session structured in sections;
  
  
• Paul Hudson goes through SwiftUI updates in iOS 17 – What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 17;
  
  
• A Developer's View of Vision Pro by David Smith provides a independent developer's point of view on new Apple device;
  
  
• SwiftData is covered by Josh Steele in SwiftData: Simplifying Persistence in iOS Apps;
  
  
• Charlie Chapman covers monetization news in WWDC 2023 highlights: What’s in store for subscription apps;
  
  
• Xcode productivity tip – See all parameter permutations in code completion in Xcode 15 by Natalia Panferova;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva covers Natural Language Processing framework usage – How to find synonyms with the Natural Language framework for iOS;
  
  
• This one is actually video, but an interesting one – how to bring mixins to Swift with macros – Unlocking Mixins with Swift 5.9 Macros by Alejandro Martinez;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng coves new controller to show "empty" screen – How to Handle Empty States Using UIContentUnavailableConfiguration;
  
  
• Christian Tietze mixes Swift Package Manager with Objective-C – Swift Package Import in Objective-C Might Just Work;
  
  
• Swift Result Builders: Getting Started by Andrew Tetlaw explains use of Result Builders in Swift;
  
  
• New scroll view transitions are explained in Mastering ScrollView in SwiftUI. Transitions by Majid Jabrayilov;
  
  
• Interpolate text with custom foreground style in SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova covers foreground styles added in iOS 17;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee goes through Swift macros – Swift Macros: Extend Swift with New Kinds of Expressions;
  
  
• Everything publishers need to know about app store fees, guidelines, and compliance by Peter Meinertzhagen focuses on App Store monetization questions.

That is a lot. Choose wisely. And.. #ICYMI Apple Treats team reviewed WWDC23. This was really fun episode and we went through important developer announcements and talked about spatial computing too.

Bardi Golriz did a great job of gathering all questions and answers on SwiftUI from WWDC23 Digital Lounge.

Bardi Golriz:

• WWDC23 #SwiftUI
• WWDC 23 was our favourite ever yet

Apple announced its Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, a long-term global effort to advance equity and expand opportunities for Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and Indigenous communities, has more than doubled its initial financial commitment to total more than $200 million over the last three years.

Through REJI’s education grants, Apple has reached more than 160,000 learners through in-person courses and out-of-school offerings, while committing over $50 million to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) to support science, technology, engineering, arts, and math opportunities. With a focus on economic empowerment, REJI funds financial institutions — including venture capital firms, Community Development Financial Institutions, and Minority Depository Institutions — that support Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and Indigenous entrepreneurs and businesses. And REJI’s criminal justice reform grants have supported legal services, safe housing, identification services, healthcare access, and other vital reentry services for more than 19,000 justice-impacted individuals.

Apple

Apple Newsroom: Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative surpasses $200m in investments

With more details on Apple Vision Pro being available during WWDC23, developers found out that in current release of visionOS access to outward facing cameras will not be provided to third-party applications.

The only access apps could get is simulated camera with user's Digital Persona (and only if user approves access). This camera will act like front facing camera on iPhone allowing recoding of user's face reconstructed using ML model.

In order to build immersive AR experiences developers have to rely on ARKit entities and scene understanding capabilities.

Reference: Vision Pro keeping camera access under lock and key compared to iPhone and iPad