More colorful review
Apple made a comic book all about App Review
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In addition to the standard documentation, Apple has released its App Review Guidelines in the form of a comic book.
Developer Tools
RAPID CODING
RapidWeaver 7 launches for Mac
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Realmac Software has announced that RapidWeaver 7.0 is now available for Mac, introducing a bunch of new features and improvements to make your lives that little bit easier when building websites.
PDF power
Readdle launches PDF Expert for Mac
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Readdle has released PDF Expert for Mac, which allows you to read and annotate PDFs, sign documents, and more. The app syncs with PDF Expert for iPhone and iPad, allowing you to work from any device.
SF Awesome
Using the Apple system font in your web content
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Coming with iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan is the new Apple system font, San Francisco (technically the SF branch). If you make web apps or use web views and want to make sure they match, there's some good news coming your way.
Resetting expectation
Making apps for love, not money
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Very few people are willing to pay for content any more, be it music, news, or apps. Singers are seeing revenues plummet thanks to streaming, web sites are folding due to lack of income, and developers aren't able to feed their families simply by selling through the App Store. There are some notable exception, but increasingly creating content is becoming unsustainable. Perhaps new...
Reality checks
Safari isn't the new IE: it's the user-centric web
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There's an op-ed that's making the rounds with a fairly provocative and sensational tile: Safari is the new Internet Explorer. What Safari actually is, however, is the new user-centric web.
Back to the UNIX roots
New Command Line Tools now available for developers
Apple has released new versions of its Command Line Tools for developers on OS X Yosemite. These tools allow for UNIX-like development right in OS X's Terminal.
Friendly reminder
This year, file your beta bugs early
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When it comes to reporting bugs on Apple's betas, get them in before it's too late. Filing radars—the popular term for submitting problems to Apple's bug reporting system—is a lot of work. What's more, it almost never results in any official recognition or appreciation, and sometimes it feels like an exercise in frustration and futility. Yet filing radars remains invaluable to the...
Take them for a spin
Apple's new analytics tools now available to all developers
Apple is notifying developers that the new App Analytics tools are now available for all developers through iTunes Connect. However, the tools remain in beta.
Take the Vision Mobile Developer Economics Survey and win!
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It's that time of year again, and our friends at Vision Mobile want to hear from mobile, IoT, desktop and cloud developers in the 9th edition of their Developer Economics Survey. How will IoT play out in your ecosystem? Is HTML vs. Native still relevant? Are you using AWS, Azure or Google Cloud? Which are the hottest IoT verticals? These are some of the questions that our friends at...