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Date Published
Author
Moataz Nabil
Word count
1727
Language
English
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None

Summary

This year's WWDC 2022 saw the introduction of several key features and updates across Apple platforms, including Swift Playgrounds, Xcode Cloud, and SwiftUI. Swift Playgrounds allows users to create apps directly from the playground and submit them to the App Store, while Xcode Cloud provides a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and hosted in the cloud. The latest version of Swift includes features such as concurrency, async algorithms, and distributed actors, which aim to improve the developer experience around regular expressions. SwiftUI has also been updated with a new navigation API, Grid API, and custom layout API, making it easier for developers to build applications. Additionally, Apple introduced several other frameworks and technologies, including App Shortcuts, Passkeys, WeatherKit, Metal 3, MapKit, and more, which aim to enhance the user experience and improve app development processes.