Customer experience would be the key business differentiator for years to come. Brands and business decision makers, customer service analysts, and academics around the world share this common view when it comes to exploring ways to gain competitive advantage in the marketplace. The same effort was reflected in Apple’s modus operandi at the WWDC 2016 finale. With the announcement of iOS 10, which is expected to hit the market in the fall of this year, Apple plans to boost its customer experience strategy and make a bigger impact in the market. Without a doubt, it will not materialize without the active support of all Swift application development companies and their development teams.
Let’s take a look at the featured resources made available by the company in its latest IDE (Integrated Development Environment), i.e. Xcode 8.0 Beta to support the development of iOS 10 compatible apps.
Source code editor extensions
Xcode 8 adds support for the Xcode Source Editor Extensions. App extensions provide additional commands in the Xcode editor menu. Extensions can be used to modify texts and selection areas. Swift app developers can use the Xcode Source Editor Extension target template in the macOS App Extensions section before starting any project.
interface builder
Migration to automatic layout is made easier with the built-in Interface Builder. It is no longer necessary for a developer to generate implicit constraints for unconstrained views. He or she can also zoom in and out on iOS, tvOS, and watchOS, as well as edit the encoding. Xcode 8 offers a completely redesigned workflow for working with feature variations (for example, size classes) and favors designing the UI in terms of actual device size rather than intentionally using abstract rectangles. The canvas allows developers to observe the interactions between iOS views as they appear at runtime, including the precise composition of the UIVisualEffectView.
Runtime Sanitizers
Xcode introduces a new Thread Sanitizer feature to help Swift developers with compiler instrumentation and runtime monitoring. This will help detect and eliminate data races and other concurrency errors in Swift or Objective-C programs. It can also catch memory corruption bugs that are triggered by using types like UnsafeMutablePointer.
static analyzer
Helps check for nullability violations at both aggressive and less aggressive levels. The most aggressive level examines all calls for nullability violations. It remains active by default for new projects. The least aggressive level checks for nullability violations in calls to project headers. However, it does not do this with system headers.
children’s parks
Xcode Playgrounds targeting macOS will now run with open source Swift toolchains from Swift.org. However, Playgrounds targeting iOS or tvOS will be based on the Xcode 8.0 toolchain. The video tag associated with Playgrounds will also support remote URLs.
I hope that this latest IDE in association with the powerful language Swift 3.0 will help Swift application development companies and their developers to create quality applications that meet the needs of their customers. To be sure, the approach shouldn’t dilute comfort and convenience for end users, as Apple won’t take any hits on that front.