Welcome to Howdy Developer. On this version: Try new movies on Recreation Middle and the Journaling Strategies API, get visionOS steerage straight from the spatial design group, meet three App Retailer Award winners, peek contained in the time capsule that’s Historical Board Recreation Assortment, and extra.
VIDEOS
Handle Recreation Middle with the App Retailer Join API
In this new video, discover how you can use the App Store Connect API to automate your Game Center configurations outside of App Store Connect on the web.
Manage Game Center with the App Store Connect API
Discover how you can use the App Store Connect API to automate your Game Center configurations outside of App Store Connect on the web. Find out how the API can help you create achievements and leaderboards and share them between related games using groups. And learn how to enable and configure…
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And find out how the new Journaling Suggestions API can help people reflect on the small moments and big events in their lives through your app — all while protecting their privacy.
Discover the Journaling Suggestions API
Find out how the new Journaling Suggestions API can help people reflect on the small moments and big events in their lives though your app — all while protecting their privacy. Learn how to leverage the API to retrieve assets and metadata for journaling suggestions, invoke a picker on top of the…
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Q&A
Get your spatial design questions answered
What’s the best way to make a great first impression in visionOS? What’s a “key moment”? And what are some easy methods for making spatial computing visual design look polished? Get answers to these questions and more.
Q&A: Spatial design for visionOS
Get expert advice from the Apple design team on creating experiences for Apple Vision Pro.
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FEATURED
Celebrate the winners of the 2023 App Store Awards
Every year, the App Store celebrates exceptional apps that improve people’s lives while showcasing the highest levels of technical innovation, user experience, design, and positive cultural impact. Find out how the winning teams behind Finding Hannah, Photomator, and Unpacking approached their incredible work this year.
“We’re trying to drive change”: Meet three App Store Award-winning teams
Read the stories behind Finding Hannah, Photomator, and Unpacking.
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Missed the big announcement? Check out the full list of 2023 winners.
NEWS
Xcode Cloud now included with membership
Starting January 2024, all Apple Developer Program memberships will include 25 compute hours per month on Xcode Cloud as a standard, with no additional cost. Learn more.
BEHIND THE DESIGN
Travel back in time with Ancient Board Game Collection
Klemens Strasser’s Ancient Board Game Collection blends the new and the very, very old. Its games date back centuries: Hnefatafl is said to be nearly 1,700 years old, while the Italian game Latrunculi is closer to 2,000. “I found a book on ancient board games by an Oxford professor and it threw me right down a rabbit hole,” Strasser says. Find out how the Austria-based developer and a team of international artists gave these ancient games new life.
With Ancient Board Game Collection, Klemens Strasser goes back in time
Discover how the title blends the new and the (very) old.
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DOCUMENTATION
Get creative with 3D immersion, games, SwiftUI, and more
This month’s new sample code, tutorials, and documentation cover everything from games to passing control between apps to addressing reasons for common crashes. Here are a few highlights:
View the full list of new resources.
View what’s new in the Human Interface Guidelines.
NEWS
Catch up on the latest updates
App Store holiday schedule: We’ll remain open throughout the holiday season and look forward to accepting your submissions. However, reviews may take a bit longer to complete from December 22 to 27.
Sandbox improvements: Now you can change a test account’s storefront, adjust subscription renewal rates, clear purchase history, simulate interrupted purchase flows directly on iPhone or iPad, and test Family Sharing.
New software releases: Build your apps using the latest developer tools and test them on this week’s OS releases. Download Xcode 15.1 RC, and the RC versions of iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, macOS 14.2, tvOS 17.2, and watchOS 10.2.
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