New modal transition. For SwiftUI & UIKit. iOS 18+ of course

controller.preferredTransition = .zoom { _ in }

🐤 The concept is like Hero (here's url link if you haven't come across it), but Hero works better

💾 In the 3rd beta, they added a dark theme to all icons. Apple's apps on top and below with generated icons

🐤 Doesn't work perfectly for all icons, but still a great (developers won't be able to update the apps until September)

The iOS 18 design system has been released for 🎨 Figma

A lot of things are missing. There are more templates and elements in the Sketch. It's a beta, so more will be added

🎛 But Figma did a thoughtful thing - they added a relevant url to guides to each group of elements

🎛 How to add your controls to the Сontrol Сenter. The concept is the same as with Widgets and Live Activity

You create a new StaticControlConfiguration. If you remember, Widgets have their own configurator, LA has its own configurator too. And they are all next to each other

And Intents are responsible for actions as for Live Activity. Even the protocols are the same

🐤 Controls are basically widgets that can be resized. They could have made it a Widget and everything would work

You're unlikely to do apps for 🍎 tvOS, but there's a problem

Before tvOS 18, Tru-Way was TVML. This is something like SwiftUI — a declarative concept, and the UI is drawn by the system. There were even templates screens!

But now TVML has been deprecated, and the new true-way is 👶 SwiftUI

The problem is that SUI is fine for iOS, but for tvOS it’s a nasty and buggy thing. At WWDC they said that everything was fixed, but I don’t believe it at all

🎛 Live Activity is now available for Live Channels. You subscribe a user to a channel, your server sends 1 notification, and LA will be updated for everyone

Is that cool? Yeah. Update by timeline? Still not available

My review 🎟 wwdc24 is completed. If someone wants to read it first, here is a link to the first post. And also useful on the topic:

🤝 Text version of video sessions

📖 Summary by categories from Apple

🔨 Code examples from wwdc24

📦 Cocoapods is going into maintenance mode. Everything works, but they won't develop it

The team recommends switching to 📦 Swift Package Manager

💾 Presented iPhones with a shutter button. If you have a camera app, add new controls

🎛 Guides by the url. In short, remove the buttons on preview and move them to the new menu. For icons you can use only SF Symbols.

⚠️ The most important thing is that such controller is only for camera apps. It is possible to add it somewhere else, but it is trickly and potential HIG reject

iOS 18 is not released, but you can upload the app with 🔨 Xcode 16 RC

☁️ with Xcode Cloud as well

👨‍💻 One set of screenshots for iPhone and iPad

If it says Required next to 6.5, don't worry — 6.5 shows 6.9 screenshots by default

🐤 It would be cool to have screenshots for the dark theme — the app page is prettier and it's easier on the eyes

🔨 Xcode 16 has been released. The build is different from RC. Download by the url

Now by default in 🔨 Xcode 16 folders (blue icons) instead of groups

You cannot rearrange files/folders in folders. If critical - convert a folder to a group by right-clicking on it

📖 Just in case, here is a tutorial on the difference between a group and a folder

Today is the new fiscal 2025. On the fiscal calendar, Apple pays out revenue to developers

🐤 I have an interactive calendar on my website — you can see on which day for which month the payment will come in

📊 To Apple Search Ads is coming new countries. Türkiye is on the list

🛑 Realm Deprecated

End support and be removed on September 30, 2025. Offline database (local) will be available like open source in community branch

Apple published a series of tutorials on 🛠 Instruments about threads and how to debug them

The examples are based on Swift Concurrency, but the ideas are applicable to both UIKit and DispatchQueue