Apple WWDC 16 keynote held at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco on 13-June-2016. These were the points presented during the keynote presentation start.
Tim Cook shared the exciting facts about the WWDC 16 conference
- 27th world wide conference.
- 13 million registered developers. 2 million added last year.
- 5000+ attendees tickets sold out.
- Participants from 74 countries.
- 72% are first time attendees.
- 350 scholarships winners this year.
- 120 attendees are under 18 age.
- Youngest attendees is 9 year old girl.
- App store started 8 years back. There are 2 million apps on apps store, downloaded 130 billion times.
- 50 billion dollars paid to developers.
New Watch OS 3.0
- Faster access to favourite apps by keeping it in memory. background updates, refreshed information & instant launch.
- Side button for favourite app access.
- Control center by swipe up from bottom.
- Smart replies to messages and scrible to write and respond.
- New Fresh watch faces, Mini & activity ring with anolog & chronolog form or numerals.
- SOS – automatically call for help on cellular or wifi network.
- Medical ID on Apple watch.
- Sharing the activity with Friends and Family
- Wheelchair use, movement, workout
- Detailed Workout information
- Breathing app guides on deep breathing and destress based on Yoga practitioners. Deepak Chopra Referred here.
- New Revised api for Apple Pay, Sprite Kit, Crown & touch events, inline video, game center, Cloud access.
- Control Home automation
- FREE upgrade coming this Fall.
New tvOS
- Future of TV is apps
- 1300 video channels.
- 6000 native apps for new Apple TV.
- Molotov.tv in France and may apps coming to Apple TV.
- New version of Remote app with SIRI and accelerometer & Gyroscope.
- SIRI now also available within YouTube.
- SIRI searches through 650000 show.
- Live TuneIn for running TV channels and Single Sign on.
- Bright and Dark Mode available for new tvOS.
- Replay Kit, Live broadcast for gameplay or save the video.
- Photo Kit All photos & videos
- Home Kit to control all the devices at home.
- New tvOS coming free during this Fall.
New macOS Sierra
- OS X available from last 15 years will now be macOS.
- Continuity – Auto Unlock.
- Auto unlock Mac with Apple watch
- Universal Clipboard, Copy in one device and paste in another device.
- iCloud Drive – Currently holds 10 billion documents.
- Optimized Storage – make room by keeping old files on cloud.
- Apple pay for Web – final approval happens by authentication from Apple watch and iPhone.
- Tabs feature also available for many more apps.
- Picture in Picture for videos.
- SIRI will be available on Mac. Desktop and Laptops.
- new iMessages with emojification and bubbles
- new Music App experience
- Public Beta in July. Available to all in Fall.
New revamped Apple iOS 10
1. Experience
- Redesigned Lock Screen & Home Screen experience.
- Notification appear by raising the phone.
- Rich notification with 3D touch
- Control center by swipe up from bottom.
- Widgets from the lock screen.
- add any app widget to notifications.
2. SIRI
- SIRI is now available to developers
- SIRI context aware with recently used addresses
- SIRI can start the app and perform tasks inside the app.
- SIRI can work in CarPlay with other apps like voIP call.
3. Quick Type
- SIRI intelligence to typing.
- Intelligent suggestions
- current location
- contact information
- Intelligent Scheduling
- Calendar Availability
- Recent Addresses
- Lookup
- Multilingual typing
- Does deep learning from events and actions.
4. Photos
- Better Photos Organisation based on relevant computation of relations and locations.
- See photos overlaid on the map.
- Face Recognition to organize the photos.
- Memories organised based on date, location, tags and people.
- Photos Event creation based on trips with Music.
5. Maps
- All new design for Maps, More proactive. Relevant spots
- Navigation and guidance
- Maps new capabilities available to developers.
- For example book hotel with number of visitors.
6. Music
- 15 million paid subscribers. All new design for Music Application
- Library, Playlist, For You, Downloaded Music, Recently Added, Radio
- Also show the lyrics with Music
- For You brings discovery Mix, Daily curated playlist.
- Updates from Artists being following.
- Browse, Hot Album, New Music, Top Charts
7. News
- 2000 publications contributing to News app
- 60 millions readers
- Top Stories, Trending, Smart Topic based on what is being followed
- Subscription to Magazines or Newspapers
- Breaking News Notifications through News app
8. Home Kit
- Cameras and door locks
- new Home App to turn on light or control the luminescence
- I am home, Good Morning, Good Night
- See who is at door when door bell rings, unlock the door from app.
- Encrypted messaging and automatic decisions for home automation.
- Apple watch also has Home controls
9. Phone
- Voice mail transcription
- Tencent security caller ID possible spam.
- VoIP call from lock screen
- contact cards are revamped
- Also receive calls from your office number on Apple Phone, Cisco implementation.
10. Messages
- When you share links it shows artworks or video
- camera shows the live feed of camera or gallery
- Emoji is 3x bigger now. Emoji predictions. Also shows emojifyable predictions in text.
- Bubble sizes and animation changes.
- Apart from small & large bubble there is secret
- handwriting can be sent in messages.
- Full screen effect.
- iMessages Available to developers.
SWIFT Programming Language
- In less than 2 years 100000 apps use swift.
- Available as open source
- New app for iPad, Swift Playground
- Top has lessons and bottom has challenges
- Library of playground.
- Releasing Developer Preview today Shipping in Fall of 2016
- SWIFT playground app is free
