What’s New in tvOS 12

WWDC 2018

Password AutoFill

• Ensure QuickType bar appears
• Get your app’s credentials on the QuickType bar
• Enable 1-tap sign in

Ensure QuickType Bar Appears

Adopt UITextContentType

• tvOS wil try to automatically detect username and password fields
• Explicitly mark the text field types

QuickType Bar Suggestions

Associated Domains

• Powers many other features
• Strong relationship between app and website
• Introducing Password AutoFill for Apps ( WWDC 2017 )

Enable 1-Tap Sign In

Implement preferredFocusEnvironments

• AutoFill will perform a focused button’s action after filling
• Implement preferredFocusEnvironments to provide your login button for focus

Focus on tvOS

Focus Engine now supports apps regardless of how they are rendered ( new )

What’s Included

• State management
• Focus item geometry
• Accessibility
• tvOS’s native feel
  - Momentum during swipes
  - Scrolling inertia
  - Focus movement hinting

New Focus Features

UIFocusEnvironment ( new )

• Hooking into the focus engine

• Controlling and reacting to focus updates

• Focus updating functions

UIFocusItemContainer ( new )

• Provide a coordinateSpace
  - UIView provides itself
• Implement focusItems(in rect: CGRect)
• rect is expressed in coordinateSpace
• Focus Items’ frames must also be expressed in coordinateSpace

UIFocusItem ( new )

• Inherits from UIFocusEnvironment
• Implement canBecomeFocused
• Implement didHintFocusMovment(_ hint: UIFocusMovmentHint)
• Provide a frame
  - Same coordinate space as its containing UIFocusItemContainer

UIFocusMovementHint ( new )

UIFocusItemScrollableContainer ( new )

• Inherits from UIFocusItemContainer
• 3 additional properties

• contentOffset is set automatically

Accessibility

• It’s incredibly easy !
• Implement UIFocusItemContainer.focusItems(in rect: CGRect)
• Set accessibilityLabel and accessibilityHint on your Focus Items
• What’s New in Accessibility ( WWDC 2016 )

Demo 1

Demo 2

Demo 3

Text Scrolling ( new )

Marquee

• Present variable-length strings in fixed geometry
• Visually highlights current focus

TVUIKit ( new )

• Easy adoption of common UI patterns
• Built-in support for localization and accessibility
• Developer Beta

TVPosterView ( new )

TVCaptionButtonView ( new )

TVCardView ( new )

TVMonogramView ( new )

Common Theme ( new )

TVLockupView ( new )

• Custom content
• Your own widget that responds to focus
• Customize 4 special purpose subclasses
  - TVPosterView
  - TVCaptionButtonView
  - TVCardView
  - TVMonogramView

TVDigitEntryViewController

Demo 1

Demo 2