#18: WWDC22 Speculation!

Just in time for the weekend plane ride to Cupertino, it’s our WWDC22 speculation episode! We talk about some of things we hope to see at this year’s WWDC including new hardware, iOS 16 features, and dev tool improvements. Plus, Kotaro provides a bonus tip about how you can glimpse the future by subscribing to the Swift Evolution mailing list. If you’d like to join us at our virtual keynote watch party, RSVP and join our Slack! Details are on our website at http://phillycocoa.org or at https://www.meetup.com/PhillyCocoaHeads/.

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Topics Discussed:

What is WWDC?
- In-person vs virtual
- Alt conferences
Speculation
- Hardware
  - M2 Mac Pro
  - AR Glasses Dev Kit
  - Joy-con style controllers for iPhone/iPad
- iOS 16
  - New era of UI design?
  - Theming support?
  - Mac Password Management App?
- SwiftUI 4
  - Becomes The Way to do Apple dev
  - Native ARView?
  - Native support for PencilKit?
  - NavigationLink improvement?
  - Native Siri Intents?
  - Keyboard/Text fields improvements?
- Core Data Updates
  - New API?
  - NoSQL style db?
  - Continue improving SwiftUI integration
  - Better CloudKit support in Xcode
- AR
  - Commitment that AR glasses are coming and timeframe?
  - Reality Composer features
- Glimpse the future on the Swift Evolution mailing list
  - Concurrency
  - Regex support
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