WWDC 17 Keynote, Apple teknolojileri hayatımıza ne getirecek?

Apple WWDC geliştirici konferansında, her yıl olduğu gibi bu yılda keynote’da, yeni Apple teknolojileri, işletim sistemlerindeki değişiklikler ve ürünlere gelen yeni özellikler kısaca tanıtıldı.

5K iMac Pro ve Yeni Özellikleri

5K iMac Pro aynı zamanda Space Black renk seçeneğiyle ve güçlü işlemcisiyle birlikte geliyor. Mac için yeni işletim sistemi macOS High Sierra olarak tanıtıldı.

Şüphesiz, iPhone kullanıcılarının beklediği yeni işletim sistemi iOS 11

iOS11’de ilk göze çarpan yeni “Control Center” yani kontrol merkezi, artık kontrol merkezi full ekran ve 3d touch ile menüdeki ayarların daha da derinine inmeniz mümkün. Örneğin müzik üzerinde 3d touch yaptığınızda, pick and pop’la daha detaylı bir ekranı müzik player açıyorsunuz. Diğer bir önemli UX değişikliği ise “Lock Screen” ile “Notification Center”‘ın aynı ekranda olması, kilit ekranında varsa ilk bildirim gösterilecek ve bounce edildiğinde ise diğer bildirimlere ulaşılabilecek.

Interviews for an iOS Developer??

If you’re looking for a nice developer job, first thing you should check is your basic programming knowledge, of course. Or maybe, you are not looking for new opportunities. –> You just don’t want to lose flexibility of programming skills on a specific language or algorithm know-how. Best thing you can do is simply EXERCISING.

There are several websites you can use to solve programming problems on different areas (such as Data Structures, Algorithms, AI, Databases or Security) by using different programming languages. (From Python, Go, ADA to Swift) These websites are really good for improving whiteboard coding skills.

Styling Views on iOS

What if I say you can use styles in iOS?

Yes, we can steal some features from Android for iOS.

Font family, size, text color, background color, background image .. Selecting all style attributes from Interface Builder over and over again can be a pain in the ass.

So, how can we do this? What are the benefits of using styles in iOS?

One day, your boss, your client or even you “MAY” want to change design of a part of your iOS app or even whole application. Your red buttons now should be green and non-bordered.

One day, Apple “MAY” show up with different font family on new iOS version and you can’t use this system font as default, but you realise some and big part of your labels, buttons are set from Interface Builder as system.

Advanced Permission Management for iOS Applications

Mobile applications ask permissions to access user’s information or user’s phone features. These permissions can be accessing camera, microphone, location, phone contact list, calendars, photos, reminders etc.

You should define your permission asking strategy wisely. You can prefer either asking permission right before using this-exact feature or you can show information why you really need these permissions and direct your users to your application’s settings page or both. If a user will not continue using your app without giving permissions, it’s nice to show information why you need it and what your application offers the user by using these features, then direct users your application settings page.

Build Your Own Framework

Coding is like playing with legos. There are so many cases that you can -and probably you should- use same lego piece for different structures, multiple times.

“If the code appears more than once, it probably belongs in a framework.” WWDC14

Apple introduced Cocoa Touch Frameworks in 2014 – the same year as iOS8 is launched . If you haven’t watched yet, I strongly recommend you to watch Building Modern Frameworks session.

Frameworks are best way to reuse your code and share with multiple projects. For instance, @Apple Health app has its own framework – HealthKit – and other developers can use HealthKit.framework by linking it with their projects.

How to add Core Spotlight to index your app content on iOS9? – iOS9 Feature (Part 4)

Apple Says That;

When you make your content searchable, users can access activities and content deep within your app through Spotlight and Safari search results, Handoff, and Siri suggestions.

Point of an developer’s view, main aim of content indexing on iOS9 is to help you make your content available in the appropriate index, drive user engagement and maybe free marketing :D.

Implementing Home Screen Quick Actions, Dynamic shortcutItems – iOS9 Feature (Part 3)

My previous post was for giving  the general information on implementing home screen quick actions by the way of using static shortcut items in the info.plist of project. To read general concept and methods, this way please.

Despite of the static shortcut items can not be changed regarding to different cases, dynamic shortcut items can be changed case by case in any wherever or whenever in application running cycle. 

Can you localize your Info.plist?

If you’re using iOS8 or greater SDK, Answer is Yes!

Especially, After 3D touch released with new iPhones, using iOS9, there may be a need for using localizable strings for Info.plist too, for example, you should use localization for your Home Screen Quick Actions, if you’ve already serve multiple languages to your users of your application.

How to implement Peek and Pop & show previewActionItems- iOS9 Feature (Part 2)

“Peek and Pop” is one of the great feature of 3D Touch. In my previous post I mentioned about “Home Screen Quick Actions” and adopting force touch, you can check this article here.
Peek And Pop feature allows users to preview a content (peek) with force touch and the content is opened in full size (pop) with one more gentle move which keeps the previous touch up.

Adopting 3D Force Touch on iPhone – iOS9 Feature (Part 1)

Apple announced 3D Touch – Force Touch in the Special Event at September this year. This feature is added to iPhone6S, iPhone6S which are introduced at same event, and I think 3D Touch will be added the next generation iPhones. If you’re reading this post, you are already aware of it. 🙂