Keynote and Platforms State of the Union coverage

Hope you enjoyed last week’s pre-WWDC interviews and articles — but now it’s soon time for the real WWDC 2019 coverage to begin — starting with summaries and first impressions of the opening keynote and the Platforms State of the Union, later today.

The keynote kicks off at 10 AM Pacific Time, and the State of the Union session is scheduled for 14:30 Pacific Time. After each session, I’ll post a summary of what was announced — as well as my first impressions of the new developer tools, features, and announcements. Tomorrow I’ll start diving into all of the new releases — from Xcode, to Swift, iOS, macOS, and beyond — to bring you a ton of details, examples, and in-depth coverage of all things WWDC 2019.

So stay tuned, and have a great WWDC week!

A Swift developer’s WWDC dreams

After a week of interviewing some amazing developers about their hopes and dreams for this year’s WWDC — I thought it’s time for me to reveal my own.

Preparing a code base for WWDC

Making preparations for WWDC can seem a bit like preparing for something completely unknown. Apart from rumors, leaks, and reports — no one outside of Apple really knows exactly what will be released during the conference — but that doesn’t mean that we necessarily have to enter next week completely unprepared.

Based on my almost 10 years of experience as an iOS developer (it does look like I’m getting old, doesn’t it?), and more importantly, close to a decade of migrating code bases to new versions of Xcode and other developer tools — here are my top 5 tips on how to prepare a code base for WWDC.

Welcome to WWDC by Sundell

I love WWDC. Part Apple event, part conference, but most importantly an enormous celebration of the developer community surrounding Apple’s platforms. I had the pleasure of attending the conference back in 2014 (the year of Swift!), and came back excited and fully inspired (and also quite tired).

However, not everyone is able to actually attend WWDC in person. Not only do you have to win the “lottery” in order to qualify for purchasing a ticket, you also need to have the monetary means to be able to fly to, stay at, and attend the conference. So for a huge amount of people, WWDC can feel a bit out of reach.

I wanted to do something about that. This website is for everyone who wants to closely follow WWDC, but from anywhere in the world. Starting right now, this site will be updated daily with articles, videos, podcasts, and interviews, covering all things WWDC — from recommendations on what session videos to watch, to in-depth looks at new APIs, to interviews with people from all over the Apple developer community.

Think of it as both an extension to all the excellent material that Apple provides, as a way to quickly stay up-to-date on the latest announcements, and a place to see real-life examples of some of the new tools and technologies announced during the conference.

Just like Swift by Sundell, this site has no paywalls and is free, open and accessible to everyone. There’s no privacy-invading tracking, no filthy ad SDKs — there’s not even any JavaScript! All thanks to four wonderful companies that are generously helping me make this site possible — Bitrise, RemObjects Software, Instabug, and Duolingo.

So fire up your RSS reader and subscribe to this site’s feed, follow @swiftbysundell on Twitter for the latest updates, and feel free to check back every day from now until the 7th of June to find new content waiting for you.

Welcome to WWDC by Sundell — I hope you’re going to enjoy it! 😀