112: Wonderful Whisky Drinking Chat 2016

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Darryl and Nolan are joined by Amro Mousa and Matt Massicotte to discuss the WWDC 2016 Keynote and Developer State of the Union. Also, Whisky.

The Whiskies

Keynote

Pre-keynote observation
- Hated the music
- Apple TV Events app worked fine
Tim takes the stage
- Talks about Orlando, offering sypathies. Called it an act of terrorism and hate.
- Talks about Apple's diversity
- Stream restarted
- Moment of silence where there would normally be an energizing video
- Bill Graham Auditorium
- 27th WWDC
- 13 Million Registered devs, growth of 2M y-t-y
- 72% first-time attendies
- 2 Million Apps on App Store
- $50 Billion paid to developers
watchOS (Kevin Lynch)
- Optimizations to App Launch time!!!
- Instant response in watchOS 3
- Apps stay in memory, support background updates
- App dock replaces contacts!
- Swipe up is now Control Center
- Streamlined notification response workflow
- Scribble! Handwriting (grafitti?) recognition
- Improved watch faces
  - Minnie Mouse watch face
  - Activity watch face in 3 variants. Acts kinda like a full-screen complication
  - Numerals
  - Improved face switching with edge to edge swipe
- Demo
  - Time to first woman on stage: approx. 15 minutes
  - Timer improvements
  - Reminders improvements
  - Find my Friends
- SOS
  - Press and hold side button, and 911 is called after a countdown, notifies emergency contacts withlocation
  - Watch shows Medical ID info
  - Works internationally (calls the right emergency number)
- Jay (Blahnic?) Activity sharing: allows you to view friends' activity and send messages
- Support for Wheelchair users
  - Changes algorithms used to detect movement
  - "Time to roll" notification
  - Wheelchair-specific workouts
- Breath App
  - Simple deep breathing sessions to calm and reduce stress
  - Supports reminder notifications
  - 1 to 5 minute sessions
  - Supports haptic feedback
  - Summary with time and heart rate
- New APIs
  - In-app Apple Pay
  - Background workout info
  - SpriteKit & SceneKit
  - Native Events
  - Speaker Audio
  - Inline video
  - Game Center
- Preview available today, release in Fall
tvOS (Eddy Cue)
- 1300 Video Channels
- 6000 Apps
- New Remote App! w/ all the features of the physical remote
- Siri
  - Search Movies by topic
  - Search YouTube!
  - Live Tune-In ("Watch ESPN 2")
    - iPad and AppleTV
- Better authentication with Single sign-on
  - Also available on iOS
- Dark Mode
- ReplayKit
- PhotoKit
- HomeKit
- Multiplayer Game sessions and more controller support
OS X (now macOS) (Craig)
- Sierra
- Continuity
  - AutoUnlock - proximity-based unlock of Mac
  - Universal Clipboard
- iCloud Drive
  - 10 Billion documents today
  - Desktop syncing (and available on iOS)
  - Storage optimization (purges recoverable/unneeded files)
- Apple Pay on the web
  - Authenticates using TouchID on iPhone
- Tabs
  - System-wide support for tabs for all multi-windowed apps
- Picture in Picture
- Siri
  - Siri button/icon on dock
  - File search with filterable results
  - 200% more snark
  - Result pinning
- Craig doesn't blink at paying $140 for movie tickets
- Developer preview today, public beta in July, Release Fall
iOS
- Biggest iOS release ever
- Experience
  - Redesigned lock screen
    - Raise to wake a la watchOS
    - Notification redesign
    - 3d touch on notifications
    - Rich notification content
    - Clear all
    - Quicker access to camera, widgets and control center
  - 3d touch now supports display of widgets from app icons
- Siri
  - 2 Billion requests a week
  - Developer API!!!
    - Messaging
      - Slack WhatsApp WeChat
    - Photosearch
    - Workouts
    - Payments
    - VoIP calling
    - Sounds like it's not a complete opening
- QuickType Intelligent keyboard
  - Deep learning (LSTMs) for completion suggestions
    - Example: "Where are you?" provides option to send location
  - Contextual event creation
- Photos
  - Places map view
  - Face recognition
  - Object and scene recognition
  - Memories clusters photos into collections that may be relevant
    - Automatically creates a slideshow movie of photos and videos
    - Provides length and mood controls to change editing and music of movie
  - Also on macOS
- Maps
  - Proactive destinations
  - Destination filtering
  - Continued use of carosel (like the Memories stuff) Accessibility impact?
  - Destinations along your route
  - Alternative routes with time-saving estimations
  - CarPlay gets instrument panel turn-by-turn
  - Map Extensions!!
    - Book Reservations
    - Request a ride
- Music
  - 15 Million paid subscribers
  - All new design
    - Clarity and simplicity
    - Improved library UI
  - Lyrics
  - Don't make developers participate!!!
- News
  - 2000 publications, 60 million readers
  - Redesigned
    - For you is categorized, with smart topics
  - Subscriptions
  - Breaking news notifications
- HomeKit
  - Home app
    - Access to scenes and individual accessory control
  - Integrated into control center
  - Interactive notifications
  - iPhone, iPad, Watch
- Phone
  - Voicemail Transcription (Kinda like Google Voice)
  - Extension API (detect spam, etc)
  - VoIP API!
  - Side note: https://twitter.com/chockenberry/status/742422670046683137 (Buttons look more like buttons)
- Messages
  - Most-frequently used app on iOS
  - Rich links
  - Different camera and photo picker.
  - Big emoji (shit)
  - Emojifier
  - Bubble effects
  - Tap-back quick responses
  - Handwriting
  - Digital touch
  - Fullscreen effects
  - Annoying demo
  - https://twitter.com/_DavidSmith/status/742425105809039360
  - iMessage Apps
    - Stickers
    - Annoying photo manipulation
    - Payment
    - Can I block Jibjab?
- Differential privacy
- One more thing: a video :(
- Developer preview Today, public beta July, release Fall
Developers (Tim)
- Swift playgrounds on iPad
  - (get insight from Amro re: hour of code with his 6 yr old)
  - Developer keyboard
  - Released today with the beta
  - Free
- First "emotional" Apple video in a while to actually make me emotional

Developer State of the Union

iMessage Apps
- Extensions
  - App Store
  - iMessage App Store
- "Get app" link
- Sticker art, UIKit
- Display in the same space as the keyboard would, but can be expanded to fullscreen
- MSSession, MSConversation, MSMessage
- Privacy measures
- Simulator support for viewing both sides of a conversation
Siri
- SiriKit (first version)
- Speech, Intent, Action, Response
- Vocabulary
  - Plist for app vocabulary, code for user vocab
- AppLogic, User Interface
  - Extension, NSUserActivity
- Example: Hologram
- Domain, Intent, Recipent, Content
Swift 3
Swift on iPad
- File Format Docs
- Lesson materials
- Record sessions
- Compatible with Xcode playgrounds
Xcode 8
- Source Editor
  - Active line highlighting
  - Swift color literals
  - Swift image literals
  - Markup generation
  - App Extensions
    - Selection
    - Transforms
    - Pasteboard modification
  - Unified API Reference
    - Fully available offline
- Interface Builder
  - Design-time effects
  - Device size configuration bar
  - Improved size-class support
  - Canvas operations at any zoom level!!
- Captured crash logs
- Test without building
- Runtime issues
  - UI
  - Threads
    - Thread sanitizer
    - Identify race conditions and more
  - Memory
    - Display object graph
    - Identifies leaks with backtraces to where captures happen
    - Reference Cycle graph
- Provisioning
  - New signing actions
  - Configuration and issue details
  - Actionable messages
  - Provisioning report
  - Automatic code signing with a dedicated profile
  - Customized code signing per build configuration
Platform
- Compression
  - Open-sourcing lczse
- Traffic prioritization
- Logging
  - Unified
  - Levels
  - In memory trace
  - Privacy
  - New console application
- File Systems
  - HFS+ 18+ years old
  - Apple File System
    - Scalable
    - Modern
      - Flash/SSD
      - Resilient
      - 64-bit
      - Encryption
    - Cloning (copy on write)
      - Fast
      - Zero space
      - File and directories
    - Snapshots
      - Full volume
      - Mountable
      - Supports reverting
    - Coming "Soon". Not specified
- Differential Privacy
  - Adds noise to individual responses so that individual responses can't be identified
  - Privacy budget limits submissions per period
iOS
- Share app from homescreen via 3D touch
- Activity based integration
- Extensions
  - Notifications
    - Service Extension
      - Modifies push payload before notification surfaces. Allows encryption or additional content downloads.
    - Content extensions
  - Widgits
    - New vibrant look
    - Additional compact size
iCloud available to all signed apps on macOS Sierra, not just App Store
CloudKit Sharing
- Allows control over who can access data
- CKShare class governs permissions
watchOS
- Glanceable
- Actionable
- Responsive
- Glances are no longer "necessary"
- Workout apps run continuously during a workout even with screen off or when in another app
- Raw access to crown events
- Gesture recornizers
- Gyroscope
- Complications gallery
- SceneKit/SpritKit
tvOS
- Talking about stuff we already knew, but which wasn't discussed in WWDC2015
  - Focusable elements
  - TVMLKit
  - Handoff
- Multipeer connectivity
- 4 simultaneous game controllers
- Updated controller policy: can require game controllers
Graphics
- Color
  - Wide Color (P3) gamut
    - APIs
    - Sharing
    - PDF/print
    - System apps
    - Cameras capture deep color
    - API to access DNGs
    - API to capture LivePhotos
- Metal
Games
- ReplayKit streaming
- GameCenter invitations via sharing
- GameCenter sessions
- GameplayKit

Picks

Matt: Human Resource Machine
Amro: Provenance

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