iOS digest number 9 (June 28 - July 11)

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Joni Ive leaves the white room, we Touch Bar will say “Yes!” And the bending iPad in the new release of the iOS-digest.

Industry news

• The main news not only of this digest, but also, probably, of this half year: Johnie Ive leaves Apple. The end of an era, so to speak. On the Internet, users are already discussing how the design will develop in a company without Quince:
  
  
  Only time will tell in which direction the company will really turn in matters of ergonomics, convenience and appearance of devices.
  
• Apple plans to make a folding iPad next year, and it will be originally conceived and decomposed initially as an idea, and not like an iPhone 6+ in your pocket. Apparently, a large-sized iPad Pro will be equipped with this feature, the rest of them can easily fit into the backpack of an IT person / geek. In addition, it is assumed that the device will support 5G networks.
• And now about the saddest news of this release: the new MacBooks will be supplied only with the Touch Bar, down with the physical function keys! If you still do not know what functionality to put there, then you can get from the archives last year’s article “Making the touchbar finally useful.”
  
  
  
• As you can see, this time, Apple did not wait for the fall to update the device: in addition to the Pro versions, the Air was updated, but the MacBook just stopped selling. The updates themselves are minor and have touched the upgrade of the processor clock frequency.
• Users of the beta versions of iOS 13 and macOS Catalina found that in new versions of the OS there will be an opportunity to log into iCloud using TouchID and FaceID on their devices. Public beta versions are available , you can play around and check that your own applications are ready for the September update. It also reported that this week in the work of iCloud there were interruptions that occurred the day after problems in the work of some Facebook services.
• Everything once happens for the first time: Apple first published a report on the number of requests to delete applications from the AppStore from different countries. During the second half of 2018, 80 requests from 11 countries were received for the removal of 634 applications. It does not say how many applications were eventually removed from the app store.

IOS development news

• The site nshipster.com celebrates its 7th anniversary. On this occasion, he added a new article about 7 ways to generate confetti in his application.
• The awesome-swift repository has appeared on GitHub, in which there are links not only to code samples, but also to tutorials, books, courses and applications that use SwiftUI.
• In addition, it is recommended to read a series of articles on how to prepare the animation , organize work with the data model , add support for gestures in SwiftUI.
• Catalyst technology has made a lot of noise, because who does not want to practically (in theory) port their iPad application to macOS for free. If you have not tried it yet, but you want to know how it is done, then we recommend reading the Twitter account of the Mobile developer this week to figure out how to port, step by step, using the example of an existing large application:
  
  
  
• A new URLSessionWebSocketTask class for working with web sockets was announced at WWDC 2019, the guys from AppSpector have already figured out how to play ping-pong using it.
• PSPDFKit share information about how the company works from the inside: planning, refactoring, working with code, releases, CI, and so on. If you have your own cozy startup player, then you can pick up some ideas from there.
• And finally, the article Marketing for Engineers with links and tools for engineers interested in marketing.