October 11, 2022
UPDATE
Apple introduces Ask Apple for builders
New sequence of interactive Q&As and one-on-ones present builders with direct entry to Apple specialists
Apple in the present day launched Ask Apple, a brand new sequence of interactive Q&As and one-on-one consultations that can present builders with much more alternatives to attach immediately with Apple specialists for perception, assist, and suggestions.
Builders taking part in Ask Apple can inquire about quite a lot of subjects, akin to testing on the most recent seeds; implementing new and up to date frameworks from Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC); adopting new options just like the Dynamic Island; shifting to Swift, SwiftUI, and accessibility; and getting ready their apps for brand new OS and {hardware} releases. Ask Apple is freed from cost and registration is open to all members of the Apple Developer Program and the Apple Developer Enterprise Program.
This sequence will allow builders to ask questions to numerous Apple group members by means of Q&As on Slack or in one-on-one workplace hours. Q&As permit builders to attach with Apple evangelists, engineers, and designers to get their questions answered, share their learnings, and have interaction with different builders all over the world. Workplace hours are targeted on creating and distributing compelling apps that reap the benefits of the most recent in expertise and design. Builders can ask for code-level help, design steerage, enter on implementing applied sciences and frameworks, recommendation on resolving points, or assist with App Evaluate Tips and distribution instruments. Workplace hours will probably be hosted in time zones all over the world and in a number of languages.
“We’ve been listening to suggestions from builders all over the world about what will probably be most useful to them as they construct modern apps, and we’ve seen an elevated urge for food for one-on-one assist and dialog with Apple specialists,” stated Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice chairman of Worldwide Developer Relations and Enterprise and Schooling Advertising. “Our group is dedicated to repeatedly evolving our assist for our various international developer neighborhood, and we’re excited to supply Ask Apple as one other new useful resource.”
Ask Apple builds on profitable packages like Tech Talks and Meet with App Retailer Specialists, which have supplied builders greater than 200 reside displays and 1000’s of workplace hours over the previous 12 months.
Jordi Bruin, an iOS developer from Amsterdam, has launched over 20 apps on the App Retailer and has attended greater than 50 Apple developer classes and labs together with Tech Talks and through Apple’s annual WWDC. Considered one of his newest apps, Posture Pal, goals to assist customers enhance their posture by leveraging the movement sensors in AirPods. He recounts how his conversations with Apple specialists guided him on his app-building and refinement course of.
“Early on within the growth of Posture Pal, I attended a Tech Discuss targeted on the movement sensors within the AirPods. I spoke to a expertise evangelist who not solely helped me perceive the parameters and potentialities of the expertise, however who additionally helped me brainstorm extra superior options and use instances that I had not thought of earlier than,” stated Bruin. “A designer at Apple additionally did an entire rundown of Posture Pal’s onboarding expertise, highlighting the features that may very well be improved. Based mostly on the suggestions, I eliminated redundant info and simplified the design of key screens within the app. Listening to from an skilled in UX design has helped me in developing with design tips for my initiatives general.”
Ondine Bullot is the CEO of Higher Children and the founding father of academic app Knowledge: The World of Feelings, which teaches younger youngsters social and emotional abilities like managing emotions and resolving battle by means of video games and augmented actuality (AR). Bullot and her group members from all over the world have participated in a number of engagement sequence together with Tech Talks, Meet with App Retailer Specialists, and WWDC’s digital lounge discussions.
“I vividly bear in mind attending one-on-one workplace hours. It was one of the crucial inventive classes by way of imagining new options and use instances for our app. One concept that emerged, which we’re presently engaged on, is integrating Siri to our app so children can say ‘Hey Siri, I need assistance with my feelings,’ which might immediate Knowledge — our app’s primary character — to information them by means of completely different calming methods,” Bullot stated. “Our app gives a plethora of content material: interactive video games, AR, guided meditations, follow actions, printables, parenting suggestions, instructing sources. Because of Apple specialists’ suggestions, we lately redesigned our app’s navigation to create separate paths for kids, educators, and fogeys which helped make clear which sources are related to every certainly one of them. We additionally redesigned our meditation part to make it extra visible and user-friendly for kids.”
Ask Apple will probably be an ongoing sequence, with the primary spherical of alternatives coming October 17-21. Present members of the Apple Developer Program and the Apple Developer Enterprise Program can register and discover info on the schedule by visiting developer.apple.com/occasions/ask-apple.
Along with the Ask Apple sequence, tons of of hours of classes can be found on demand on the Apple Developer web site and within the Apple Developer app, enabling builders to listen to immediately from Apple concerning the newest applied sciences and necessary information multi functional place, all 12 months lengthy, every time and wherever is most handy. Builders can entry a strong library of well timed, related, and sensible content material from Apple specialists and engineers, together with information about every thing from API and framework modifications to Apple’s human interface tips, program bulletins, and technical articles, in addition to a technical and design video library. Apple additionally gives all members of the Apple Developer Program the chance to obtain one-on-one code-level assist with technical assist engineers who might help troubleshoot an app’s code or deliver options to fast-track growth.
Apple gives all kinds of cutting-edge instruments and end-to-end assist for builders to construct, take a look at, market, and distribute their apps to greater than 1.5 billion Apple gadgets. An intensive suite of free instruments and frameworks — together with software program growth kits (SDKs) and developer companies with greater than 250,000 APIs — assist builders constructing apps for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. These instruments allow builders so as to add new functionalities to their apps simply and shortly, and harness highly effective capabilities like machine studying, AR, and lots of extra. Applications akin to Apple’s Developer Academies, Entrepreneur Camps, App Accelerators, and WWDC pupil scholarships, in addition to open entry instruments like Everybody Can Code and Swift Playgrounds, guarantee the ability of coding expertise is accessible and inclusive.
The App Retailer, which launched in 2008, is the world’s most secure and most vibrant app market, presently house to 1.8 million apps and visited by greater than half a billion individuals every week throughout 175 areas. It helps creators, dreamers, and learners of all ages and backgrounds join with the instruments and data they should construct a brighter future and a greater world. For extra info on growing for the App Retailer, go to apple.com/app-store/developing-for-the-app-store.
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