Apple is taking a major step in its approach to the smart home by joining a new industry effort with Amazon, Google, Zigbee Alliance, and others. The initiative aims to develop an open standard that will increase the compatibility of smart home products across multiple platforms, with security and privacy as fundamental design tenets. The new standard will make it even simpler for developers to build one device that is compatible with smart home services and voice assistants, while ensuring consumers can easily choose smart home products that seamlessly work together.
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Apple Developer App Updates for China Mainland
December 17, 2019
Now it’s simpler than ever for developers based in China mainland to enroll in the Apple Developer Program. The Apple Developer app now supports enrollment in China mainland, allowing developers to start and finish their membership purchase with local payment methods on iPhone or iPad. And since membership is provided as an auto-renewable subscription, keeping your account active is easy.
Promoting Your In-App Purchases
With iOS, users can browse in-app purchases directly on the App Store and start a purchase even before downloading your app. Promoted in-app purchases appear on your product page, can display in search results, and may be featured on the Today, Games, and Apps tabs.
Learn how to effectively increase discoverability for content previously only found inside your app.
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In-App Purchase
December 10, 2019
Offer customers extra content and features using in-app purchases — including premium content, digital goods, and subscriptions — directly within your app. You can even promote and offer in-app purchases directly on the App Store.
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Adding Live Events to Your Game
December 6, 2019
Live events encourage player engagement by offering new ways of interacting with your game and receiving rewards. Learn how to plan, present, and promote live events in your game to help grow your business.
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Adding Live Events to Your Game
Announcing the Best of 2019 Winners
December 2, 2019
Every year, the App Store’s Best Of celebration honors a select group of innovative, beautifully designed, culturally interesting apps and games with exceptional production quality. Congratulations to the 2019 winning developers!
New Server Notifications for Subscriptions Now Available
November 22, 2019
Server-to-server notifications from the App Store let you receive real-time updates in a subscription’s status, so you can provide customized experiences for your subscribers. New notifications are now available when a subscription renewal fails due to a billing issue and when a billing issue is resolved by the App Store. In addition, a unified receipt containing information about the latest 100 in-app purchase transactions is now included with the notification. If you’ve already enabled server-to-server notifications in App Store Connect, you’ll automatically receive the new notifications and unified receipt for these subscription events.
Learn how to enable server-to-server notifications
SF Symbols 1.1 Update
With the SF Symbols Mac app, you can view over 1,500 symbols available for use. Each symbol comes in a wide range of weights and scales, allowing you to easily design adaptable interfaces that look great. Symbols are easy to integrate into your app directly from within Xcode. And if you need a symbol that isn’t provided by SF Symbols, you can export template files to create your own with the same capabilities using a vector graphics editor. Version 1.1 adds custom symbol validation, a new sidebar with categories for faster browsing, and the option to receive updates automatically.
Celebrate Computer Science Education Week with Apple
November 20, 2019
In celebration of Computer Science Education Week and Hour of Code, join us at an Apple Store near you to learn the basics of coding and apps, December 1 to 15. Sign up for engaging Code with Apple sessions to code augmented reality art, robots, and more on iPad. And if you’d like to lead your own Swift coding activity, you can download the new Hour of Code with Swift Playgrounds Facilitator Guide.
Introducing the Apple Developer App
Starting today, the WWDC app is now the Apple Developer app and delivers in-depth information from Apple experts all year round. Stay up to date with the latest developer news, informative videos, WWDC content, and more. Developers in the U.S. can also use the app to conveniently enroll in the Apple Developer Program on iPhone or iPad, with enrollment in additional countries and regions becoming available over time. And since membership is provided as an auto-renewable subscription, keeping your account active is easy.