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Apple Debuts SwiftUI and new Xcode Interactive Development Experience

Published On : August 12, 2019 Category(s) : Mobile App Development

There were many platforms which were touched by Apple in 2019 WorldWide Developer Conference in San Jose and those platforms are like HomeKit, macOS, and tvOS. It was announced today that SwiftUI which is a framework that complements its open-source compiled programming language for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, Linux, and other platforms alongside a reimagined development experience in Xcode 11.

With the help of SwiftUI developers can specify UI with simple declarations. It reduces hundreds of lines of code in practice in just a few and default support for common features like localization for right-to-left languages is provided by it. That’s in addition to built-in support for animated transitions, live previews, and the newly announced dark mode and accessibility tools in iOS.

SwiftUI could be seen across all of our platforms and it offers bindings to all the native controls so that your experiences could be customized specifically for each, all while using a common API, this was actually the statement of vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi onstage. 

Apple launched Swift playgrounds in 2016 and an iPad app featuring interactive puzzles, challenges, and lessons which are designed in order to teach beginner programmers how to code actually. Last year, it gained a sharing feature that allows users to share their creations, support for robots like IBM’s TJBot, and augmented reality (AR) lessons and modules.

More than 450,000 apps have been written in Swift to date, up from 350,000 this same time a year ago. Last year, CEO Tim Cook called it the “fastest-growing programming language out there.”

In Swift, more than 450,000 apps have been written from the date 350,000 this same time a year ago.  Last year, CEO Tim Cook called it the “fastest-growing programming language out there.”

Swift 5, which was made generally available earlier this year, is source compatible with Swift 4, Swift 4.,1 and Swift 4.2, and Xcode 10.2 has a code migrator that can automatically handle some of the necessary source changes. Official binaries for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 14.04 are available for download, as well as a toolchain, and Apple has released an updated version of the Swift Programming Language guide on Swift.org.

In March, the latest version of Swift Playground, Apple’s iPad coding tool for students was launched. Well, it adds a new source editor tab as well as allows playground Books so that to hold “directories of switch code and resources that can be imported for use by any page in that book.”

Since its first release in June 2016, Apple has intermittently updated Swift playgrounds, including language support, the ability to control accessories, as well as an ARKit augmented reality spotlight. 

Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with language settings improvements

Windows 10 preview with language settings improvements was today released by Microsoft. The update bumps Windows 10 from build 18917 (made available to testers on June 12) to build 18922. These builds are from the 20H1 branch, which represents the Windows 10 update that will arrive in the first half of next year.

Windows 10 receives new features on a regular basis as it is being developed as a service. Seven major updates have been released by the Microsoft and those are November Update, Anniversary Update, Creators Update, Fall Creators Update, April 2018 Update, October 2018 Update, and May 2019 Update.

This build improves Language Settings when you glance at them. The new overview section shows you which languages are selected as default for their Windows display, Apps & websites, Regional format, Keyboard, and Speech. The team has also reorganized the language features installation page a bit and added tooltips with descriptions.

Whenever you glance at these languages, these languages could be seen improving by this build. With the help of new overview section, you can see which languages are selected as default for their windows display, apps & websites, Regional format, Keyboard, and speech. 

Bug fixes

This 20H1 build includes the following bug fixes and improvements:

• Fixed an issue resulting in some Insiders getting Windows Update error 0x80010105 when updating to recent builds.
• Fixed an issue resulting in some Insiders getting Windows Update error 0xc0000005 when updating to recent builds.
• Fixed an issue where the Action Center background was unexpectedly opaque in the quick action section.
• Fixed an issue where if you used the spacebar to switch to a different Focus assist the state in Settings, keyboard focus would unexpectedly jump to the Have a Question? Section.
• Fixed an issue with the Bopomofo IME where the character width would suddenly change to Fullwidth from Halfwidth.
• Added a tip to the Bopomofo IME settings that Ctrl + Space can be used for toggling conversation mode.
• Fixed an issue where, when using the Japanese IME with Excel, if you’d turned off Japanese input-mode by clicking the input-mode indicator, the input-mode would revert back to “Hiragana” every time focus moved to another cell.
• Updated the Chinese Pinyin IME settings to now refer to Default mode, rather than Input mode.
• Fixed an issue for some of the Insiders with the updated File Explorer search experience, resulting in suggested results in the search dropdown not responding when clicked.
• A few small design tweaks to the updated Windows Ink Workspace, including changing the overflow menu button to new use an ellipsis icon.
• Rolled out the updated Settings header again after addressing an issue with the OneDrive entry.

Known issues

This build has seven known issues:

• This update might fail the first time you try to download it with a 0xc0000409 error code.
• For Home editions, some devices might not be able to see the “download progress %” change on the Windows Update page.
• There has been an issue with older versions of anti-cheat software used with games where after updating to the latest 19H1 Insider Preview builds may cause PCs to experience crashes. Make sure you are running the latest version of your games before attempting to update the operating system.
• Some Realtek SD card readers are not functioning properly.
• Tamper Protection may be turned off in Windows Security after updating to this build. You can turn it back on. In August, Tamper Protection will return to being on by default for all Insiders.
• File Explorer search is rendering in an unexpectedly small area and clicking it results in a crash.
• If you install builds from the Fast ring and switch to either the Slow ring or the Release Preview ring, optional content such as enabling developer mode will fail. You will have to remain in the Fast ring to add/install/enable optional content. This is because optional content will only install on builds approved for specific rings.
• As always, don’t install this on your production machine.