The main trends of WWDC according to Redmadrobot

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The robots team is back at Apple’s main developer conference. mc_murphy bealex vani2 collected the main news that developers and users of iOS (and Android) will discuss in the next few days (and a couple of months).

1. Security


After a string of scandals with platform vulnerabilities and data leaks, Apple is trying to rehabilitate itself and spend almost a quarter of the presentation on the story about privacy and security. We are repeatedly told that all calculations are performed locally, and no personal data gets into the cloud - at first glance, it sounds attractive, but this is the reason why Siri is so inferior to competitors. It is extremely difficult to build smart services without placing all the calculations in the cloud, and this volitional decision has been haunting engineers and pulling the platform back for years.


2. Augmented Reality


According to the announcement of ARKit 2, it is clear that the company is going to invest heavily in augmented reality and beyond. If last year’s version was a kind of prototype, we didn’t see any serious applications on this technology, this time is completely different.


3. Development Tools


It is not completely clear why the developers are so fond of the dark theme. Because you constantly have to code at night, when a bright white background burns out your eyes? Maybe it just affects the work in the terminal, which was originally dark with light characters? But at the film show the biggest applause was frustrated by this particular feature. Dark Xcode (along with a dark theme for the entire OS in Mojave) pleased us all without exception (well, ok, except for those who use the dark Apcode theme a long time ago).


4. Bug work instead of innovation


It was rumored that this year they would firmly take on the bugs in the iOS system and begin to clean up the dubious moments - this is what happened. Some (including the authors of the article) hoped to restart the UI-style, as it once was with iOS 7, but there were no facts behind these rumors.


5. Cross-platform? No I do not think so


MacOS has a lot of small innovations. The black display mode of the system (for which we, the developers, will need to adapt our applications), all sorts of nice little things in the Finder. But the most interesting thing is what will happen to the development stack.


6. Digital Wellness


Apple introduced the ability to view detailed reports on the time spent in applications, reduce the number of notifications that are generated by users and group them for convenience.


In general, the developers have received unusually many nice improvements this year, let's see how cool and high-quality applications this will allow to create. And those who were waiting for new products and glands will have to wait until September.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/413281/


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