Platforms state of the union

WWDC 2018

Purpose Strings

“ The app records you during the night to detect snoring sounds ”
✓ Explain how you plan to use the data
✓ Be specific
✓ Provide an example

Automatic strong passwords

• Available in iOS apps and Safari
• Synced across devices via iCloud Keychain
• Associate app with domain
• Label user name and password fields
• Express your password requirements

Security code AutoFill

Instruments

Custom Instruments Package

macOS (Mojave)

• the last macOS release to support 32bit apps

User consent for Data Access

• Location, Contacts, Photos, Calendar, Reminders, Camera, Microphone,
  Mail database, Message history, Safari data, Time Machine backups,
  iTunes device back-ups, Location and routines, System cookies

Enhanced Runtime Protections

• SIP Protections for your apps
• Strong code validation
• Protection from debugging and code injection
• Fully compatible with older release
• Managed directly in Xcode
• Optional

NOTARIZED

• Block malware
• Finer-grained revocations

iOS → macOS (comming soon 2019)

Dark Mode

Adopting Dark Mode

Design Tool

Completions

Source Control

• Easily rebase between branches
• Automatic SSH Key Create/ Upload
• Support for Bitbucket, GitLab

Editor

Debugging

• 5x Faster (Device Symbol Downloads)

Testing

Playground

• Run Without Restarting Session (Swift 4.2)

Swift 5 (Comming soon)

• Focus on binary compatibility
• Swift in the OS, thinned on app distribution
• Smaller downloads, faster launches

Core ML 2

• Batch API Performance improvements
• Smaller Models

Create ML

Siri Shortcuts

• userActivity.isEligibleForPrediction = true
• InRelevantShortcut() (watchOS)

Metal

• Deprecated in macOS Mojave, iOS 12, and tvOS 12
• API remain available for compatibility
• Metal Dependency Viewer (new)
• Metal Shader Debugger (new)
• GPU-Driven Command Encoding (Newly freed time for CPU)
• ML traning performance improvements using Metal
• TensorFlow (Training Inception V3) 20x Faster
• Ray Tracing 
  CPU (Ray-Trainagle Intersection Test + Material Shading) → GPU

Ar (Project Aero)

• https://www.adobe.com/products/projectaero.html

ARKit 2

• Improveed face tracking (ex. Tongue)
• Environment texturing
• Image detection and tracking 👍
• 3D object dectection: scanning 👍
• Save, load, and share maps 👍
• Demo SwifShot (developr.apple.com/arkit)