New Apple Developer Spotlight shines on the Halide camera app team

Halide Iphone (Image credit: Halide)

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Apple's latest Developer Spotlight is about the people behind Halide Mark II.
Halide is a pro camera app that makes use of Apple's new iPhone cameras and features.

The popular pro iPhone camera app Halide Mark II is the latest app to get the Apple Developer Spotlight treatment, with Ben Sandofsky, Sebastiaan de With, and Rebecca Slatkin all involved.

Available on the Apple developer website, the spotlight explains what makes Halide Mark II so popular while asking questions of all involved with the app.

Halide Developer Spotlight Art (Image credit: Apple)

Alongside iOS developer Rebecca Slatkin, [Ben Sandofsky, Sebastiaan de With] have turned Halide into one of the App Store's most popular pro camera apps, bringing histograms, waveforms, color zebras, and RAW+JPEG capture to all. Spectre Camera, the team's remarkable long-exposure app, was named 2019 iPhone App of the Year.

Halide is arguably the best iPhone camera app in the App Store today and this is a great read. Including a little origin story!

When did you decide to create Halide?de With: Ben slid into my Twitter DMs back in 2016. We interacted about photo gear and tech, then decided to make an app as a pure passion project. When we launched, I remember my mother saying, "There are a lot of camera apps out there." But Ben and I had to scratch this itch.

You can read the full thing on the Apple developer website now. You can download Halide Mark II from the App Store, too.

Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.