
Apple WWDC 15 is yearly developer event which is organised from 8-12 June at Mascone Center West, San Francisco, USA. This is 26th year of Apple Worldwide Developer Conference.
New Mac OS X 10.11 is El Capitan
- Split View to focus on two things
- Mission Control in single layer and call out your cursor
- Versatile Spotlight search. Ask in your own words.
- Mail with fullscreen, add suggested event/ contact.
- Notes with rich widgets and synchronised for all the devices.
- Photos with 3rd party editing tools
- Safari with favorite websites. Airplay only video without sharing whole screen and Mute all tabs.
- Maps with public transit
iOS 9 Features
- Faster & Intelligent Siri
- Proactive Assistant, more intelligent
- Caller number matching from e-mails
- Siri suggestions based on user & app interactions
- Search API for deep linking in app
- Privacy of device owner is maintained.
Apple Pay in iOS 9
- 2500 banks support Apple Pay
- 50 million card holders will be able to use Apple Pay
- 1 million contact-less locations
- Apple Pay arrives to United Kingdom in July-2015
- 250000 locations will support Apple Pay in UK
- Store Loyalty Cards also can be added to Apple Pay
- iOS Passbook is now Wallet
Notes in iOS 9
- Check list in notes
- Finger drawing in Notes
- Add links to Notes
- Attachment view of Addresses and links
- Synchronized across the devices through iCloud.
Maps in iOS 9
- 5 billion user requests per week
- Transit lines in Maps with multiple travel modes
- Ask Siri for Directions
- New Maps with transit routes launching for multiple cities
New News app in iOS 9
- News can be created for iOS with custom layouts and interactions
- Choose the sources of News for personalisation
- News with fluid animations and swipes
- Feature to read news later & favorites.
- Rich info graphics and Photo Mosaics.
- Explore will suggest more news sources and topics.
- Launching US, UK & Australia
New to iPad in iOS 9
- QuickType Keyboard, select with two fingers from keyboard view.
- Multi tasking
- Task Switcher
- Swipe on right for switching app & split view.
- Multi view, multi touch. Photos and Notes together
- Split view adjustment
- Picture in Picture view with re-size and re positioning.
- Developer API and works automatic with auto layout.
- Low Power mode for additional 3 hours.
- Two factor authentication
- iOS 9 Over the Air update is light weight
- UI testing
- App thinning for reducing the app size.
- New API Kits for developers
- Home Kit to control your devices from anywhere
- Carplay supports audio apps and supports automaker apps.
- Carplay will work wirelessly.
- SWIFT 2 is updated and offers Open Source
- Swift works for Mac OS X, iOS 9 and Linux.
- iOS 9 will work on all the devices.
App Store update
- Apple App Store launched about 7 years back.
- App Store recently passed 100 billion app downloads
- Apple has paid 30 billion $ to developers
watchOS 2
- Time piece function
- Photo Face, Photo Album Face, Time Lapse face
- Complications. Developers can make their own complications.
- Time Travel to go forward and backward
- Night Stand view and alarm clock with snooze button
- Friends
- add 12 friends for speed access
- watch can take facetime audio
- Health and Fitness
- Apps can now run natively.
- Siri can take instructions for workout.
- Apple Pay
- Store cards can be used and presented from Apple watch
- Maps
- Transit lines will appear on maps in Watch
- Siri
- Siri can guide step by step direction for transit routes.
- Ask for glance
- WatchKit works on iPhone and Watch with Watch OS functionality will work natively in watch.
- Access Microphone through Watch OS
- Play audio & video on watch
- Access to HealthKit and streaming heart rate date
- Home Kit is available for developers
- Access to accelerator and taptic engine and digital crown
- Watch OS 2 will be available this fall to all for free.
Apple Music
Ecosystem for Music industry, where you can listen Music, See Video, Follow Artists. All in one place.
- Revolutionary Music service curated by leading artists
- 24/7 Global Radio
- Connecting Fans with artists
- My Music: Search and Stream Music from iTunes.
- For You: is personalised recommendations
- New: for new artists
- Beats 1, worldwide, always on. New York, LA & London
- Connect: Artists are free to upload music, photos & lyrics.
- Apple Music is Launching in 100 countries in the month of July-15.
- Also available on Android OS.
- Apple Music is 9.99$ month. First 3 months is free
- For $14.99 you can have family of 6 people.
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