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 right this moment 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 straight with Apple specialists for perception, assist, and suggestions.
Builders collaborating in Ask Apple can inquire about a wide range of matters, reminiscent of 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 making 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 way 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 interact with different builders all over the world. Workplace hours are targeted on creating and distributing compelling apps that benefit from the most recent in expertise and design. Builders can ask for code-level help, design steering, 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 vp of Worldwide Developer Relations and Enterprise and Schooling Advertising. “Our group is dedicated to repeatedly evolving our assist for our various international developer group, 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 Consultants, which have provided builders greater than 200 stay shows 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. One among 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 Speak 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 circumstances that I had not thought of earlier than,” stated Bruin. “A designer at Apple additionally did a whole rundown of Posture Pal’s onboarding expertise, highlighting the facets that could possibly be improved. Primarily based on the suggestions, I eliminated redundant info and simplified the design of key screens within the app. Listening to from an professional in UX design has helped me in arising with design tips for my initiatives general.”
Ondine Bullot is the CEO of Higher Children and the founding father of instructional app Knowledge: The World of Feelings, which teaches younger youngsters social and emotional abilities like managing emotions and resolving battle by way 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 Consultants, and WWDC’s digital lounge discussions.
“I vividly keep in mind attending one-on-one workplace hours. It was probably the most inventive classes by way of imagining new options and use circumstances for our app. One concept that emerged, which we’re at the moment engaged on, is integrating Siri to our app so youngsters can say ‘Hey Siri, I need assistance with my feelings,’ which might immediate Knowledge — our app’s foremost character — to information them by way of totally different calming methods,” Bullot stated. “Our app provides a plethora of content material: interactive video games, AR, guided meditations, observe actions, printables, parenting suggestions, instructing assets. Because of Apple specialists’ suggestions, we not too long ago redesigned our app’s navigation to create separate paths for kids, educators, and fogeys which helped make clear which assets 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 straight from Apple concerning the newest applied sciences and necessary information multi function place, all 12 months lengthy, each 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 the whole lot from API and framework adjustments to Apple’s human interface tips, program bulletins, and technical articles, in addition to a technical and design video library. Apple additionally provides all members of the Apple Developer Program the chance to obtain one-on-one code-level assist with technical assist engineers who may also help troubleshoot an app’s code or convey options to fast-track growth.
Apple offers 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 in depth 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 reminiscent of 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, at the moment house to 1.8 million apps and visited by greater than half a billion folks every week throughout 175 areas. It helps creators, dreamers, and learners of all ages and backgrounds join with the instruments and knowledge 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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