Presented at Sydney Mobile .net developers meetup, July 2015. For more details please see this blog post.

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2. Michael Ridland
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3. Xamarin Specialist
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WWDC - The (Dev) Announcements!

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Multitasking in iOS 9 (iPad)
Slideover SplitView

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Multitasking in iOS 9 (iPad)
Picture-In-Picture

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Search APIs in iOS 9
▪NSUserActivity – previously
viewed app content
▪CoreSpotlight – index any app
content
▪Web Markup – App content which
is also supported on the web

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Swift 2.0 and is open source

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WatchOS 2 + WatchKit
New watch faces Time travel
Many other user
features
https://www.apple.com/
watchos-2-preview/

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WatchKit
▪ Custom complications (eg watch face)
▪ Programmatic access to the Digital Crown
▪ Animation APIs
▪ APIs for playing audio, video and microphone
▪ Access to the Taptic engine
▪ Extensions now run Native on the watch
▪ Full networking with NSSession

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Others
▪ Free App Development
▪ $99 for all platforms (early released)
▪ OS Upgrade Improvements - Under 1.4 GB space
▪ iOS 9 Improved Battery Life & Low Power Mode
▪ App Thinning
▪ Bitcode
▪ Much much more…

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My takeaways

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Native apps still dominate!
▪ Apple is obsessed with user engagement, experience and performance, and
they believe apps are key to this.
▪ Why is Native important
▪ Notifications - Long form notifications and actionable notifications
▪ Search APIs - Apps are now allowed to interface with search in iOS
9+DeepLink
▪ App Extensions - While not new in iOS9, still a powerful engagement
feature
▪ Apple Watch

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Other takeaways
▪ Apple will continue pushing people to apps
▪ Apple will continue pushing people to upgrade iOS
▪ Swift all the things
▪ watchOS is serious
▪ Stop thinking about Orientation

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Some GotCha’s

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Support Multitasking in your apps!
▪ ‘participating in iOS 9 multitasking is straightforward
when you’ve adopted Apple’s best-practice
recommendations for iOS 8’
▪ Stop thinking in Orientation focus on screen size
▪ Use autolayout & Size classes

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Your Xamarin.iOS project might crash on iOS9!
▪ Need to build with the Stable version of Xamarin.iOS
and resubmit to the App Store

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Beware (unsecured) connections
▪ Apple NSSession now has ATS security and it’s enabled
by default
▪ It will fail on insecure connections
▪ This affects ModernHttpClient
▪ Can be switched off via plist

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So what wasn’t in the Video’s?

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aka… dub dub

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Queue overnight for a dev conference WTF?

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Get used to Queue’s

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Q & A
Michael Ridland
michael@xam-consulting.com
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