Key Takeaways

1. SwiftUI made a lot of progress again & is now recommended over UIKit for new UI in all apps
2. Apple is going to introduce their own CI/CD service for Apple apps called Xcode Cloud
3. Swift greatly simplifies writing safe, concurrent code (requires the latest OS versions though)
4. Apple introduces the Documentation Compiler "DocC" – to generate great documentation
5. FaceTime improves a lot with shared links, screen sharing & even an API for shared playback
6. App Store gets new A/B-Testing & alternative storefront + event-based Marketing features

Recommended Sessions

These are sessions I recommend for every iOS developer (ordered by recommendation level):

• Platform State of the Union ("Developer Keynote")
• What's new in SwiftUI (@ UI Engineers)
• What's new in Foundation
• Review code and collaborate in Xcode
• Meet async/await in Swift
• Explore structured concurrency in Swift
• Elevate your DocC documentation in Xcode
• Meet AsyncSequence
• What's new in Swift
• Use async/await with URLSession
• Protect mutable state with Swift actors