What’s New in Metal, Part 1

GameplayKit provides developers a collection of essential tools and techniques used to implement modern gameplay algorithms. Learn what’s new in GameplayKit and check out advances in pathfinding, autonomous agents, and game AI, as well as many enhancements supporting GameplayKit in Xcode. Tap into new capabilities for 2D and 3D spatial partitioning, and explore noise-based procedural data generation useful for height maps, natural textures, and more.

Explore the new accessibility features for iOS, tvOS, and macOS. Gain specific knowledge of how best to adapt your app to make it accessible to everyone, regardless of their physical or learning abilities. Learn from the experts about advanced accessibility topics and how best to structure your app interface for accessibility.

macOS brings many new enhancements such as automatic window tabbing, enhanced color reproduction, and improved presentation of right-to-left languages. Get introduced to new APIs for these features and more, such as NSGridView and NSMeasurement. Learn about new conventions for APIs in Swift and Objective-C. This is your first stop to discover exciting new features in Cocoa sessions throughout the week.

The UIKit framework provides the crucial infrastructure needed to construct and manage iOS apps, and UIKit continues to advance the state of the art for app design with many new features. Dive straight into new features across the iOS frameworks that allow your apps to take advantage of many new system services, as well as to offer services to other apps. This is your first stop to discover the many sessions to see about harnessing the power of iOS 10.