Highlights from the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2016 (WWDC16)

Highlights from the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2016 (WWDC16)

Apple held WWDC16 in San Francisco earlier this month to introduce new versions of iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and a new version of OS X that’s been rebranded as macOS. These new versions are available to developers now and will be more widely available through Apple’s Public Beta program soon, with final releases this Fall. Alongside the new software, Apple announced some exciting changes coming to the App Store, too: Search Ads and more open and flexible subscriptions.

Learning Auto Layout for iOS, tvOS, and OS X

Learning Auto Layout for iOS, tvOS, and OS X

With the release of the iPhone SE and the iPad Pro, along with the expectation that iPad apps will include support for slide over and split screen mode it’s now clear that Auto Layout is here to stay. If you’re not already developing apps using Auto Layout and Size Classes now is a great time to learn more about them and prepare yourself for any updates to the APIs that Apple introduces at WWDC in June.
Fortunately there’s a lot of great resources to quickly get up to speed and learn the best way to support a variety of devices and size classes in your next app.

Looking Back at 20 Questions for 2015

Looking Back at 20 Questions for 2015

On January 1 Benedict Evans, an analyst at a16z, posted 20 questions for 2015 and posed a number of interesting questions and predictions for the year. Now that 2015 is drawing to a close I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at his post, what actually...
Friday Linked List: 11/6/15

Friday Linked List: 11/6/15

Fieldbook Fieldbook is an interesting spreadsheet that adds some features and slick UI to allow you to create simple databases and to interact with your content in new ways. It’s web based right now with native mobile apps planned for 2016. It’s a little...