Build a UIKit app with the new design

Make your app look and feel great on iPadOS. Learn best practices for designing a responsive layout for resizable app windows. Get familiar with window controls and explore the best ways to accommodate them. Discover the building blocks of a great menu bar. And meet the new pointer and its updated effects.

Get an overview of the new app icon appearances for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, including light and dark tints, and clear options. Learn how to use frostiness and translucency to make your app icon more vibrant, dynamic, and expressive, and find out how to ensure your icon works well with specular highlights.

Create a seamless experience for anyone who uses multiple languages. Learn how Language Discovery allows you to optimize your app using a person’s preferred languages. Explore advances in support for right-to-left languages, including Natural Selection for selecting multiple ranges in bidirectional text. We’ll also cover best practices for supporting multilingual scenarios in your app.

Learn how to localize your app into additional languages using Xcode. We’ll walk step-by-step through the process of creating a String Catalog, translating text, and exchanging files with external translators. You’ll learn best practices for providing necessary context to translators and how Xcode can help to provide this information automatically. For larger projects, we’ll also dive into techniques to manage complexity and streamline string management using type-safe Swift code.