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Design Shortcuts for Spotlight

By Michael Rowe | June 9, 2023 - 8:09 pm |June 9, 2023 blog, Personal - Software and IT

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Spotlight lets you do any search, and now short cuts will show up next to your app in the search window Ideation Creation Discovery

Design dynamic Live Activities

By Michael Rowe | June 9, 2023 - 7:58 pm |June 9, 2023 blog, Personal - Software and IT

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This will address Lock Screen, Stand By and Dynamic Island On the Lock Screen Stand By For Dynamic Island –

Design with SwiftUI

By Michael Rowe | June 8, 2023 - 5:42 pm |June 8, 2023 blog, Personal - Software and IT

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SwiftUI as a design Tool Getting the details right Designing for interactions Testing your ideas Presenting your work

Develop your first Immersive App

By Michael Rowe | June 8, 2023 - 9:38 am |June 8, 2023 blog, Personal - Software and IT

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This session will probably require tools not yet available… will have to come back to it once the SDK and simulator becomes available Create an Xcode project Simulator Xcode Previews Reality Composer Pro Create an immersive scene Taret gestures to entities

Design widgets for the Smart Stack on Apple Watch

By Michael Rowe | June 8, 2023 - 9:37 am |June 8, 2023 blog, Personal - Software and IT

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Layouts Color and Iconography Sessions Relevancy Build Widgets for Smart Stack on Apple Watch – Code alone session

Design spatial SharePlay experiences

By Michael Rowe | June 8, 2023 - 9:35 am |June 8, 2023 blog, Personal - Software and IT

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You can add in shared context with Spatial Persona’s so you can communicate effortlessly Set the Scene Start SharePlay Arrange participants Share context and UI Enter a Full Space

WWDC Day three – Catching up

By Michael Rowe | June 8, 2022 - 9:22 pm |December 15, 2022 blog, Personal - Software and IT

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As usual I was a bit overly ambitious yesterday and ran out of time. So I have a few more sessions I have to watch this morning before things get going. The first of which is: The SwiftUI cookbook for navigation Review of new APIs for navigation across of SwiftUI. … Continue reading →

Is this your next development machine?

By Michael Rowe | February 1, 2014 - 2:19 pm |December 15, 2022 blog

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I finally got to play with the MacPro in person the other day at my local Apple store. This was not a fully loaded machine, it only had 12gb of ram and 256gb SSD, but I ran a few tests on it. And it was plenty fast for any activity… Continue reading →