![]() The key, of course, will be balancing the amount of information to display in the widget - just enough to be of value, but not so much that users no longer want to engage with your actual app. Typically, pressing on a widget will open the app, so widgets can actually increase engagement with your app by serving as a more engaging app tile, if you will. Widgets allow users to view information from your app without having to open the app. App widgets are coming to the iPhone home screen in iOS 14. If your app presents information that is dynamic – weather, stock prices, times, for example – Apple’s new widget feature could be an ideal way to make your app more usable by removing barriers to access information. Widgets have long existed for Android devices and to a lesser extent, on the iPhone’s Today screen, but with iOS 14 they’ll finally be arriving to iPhone’s home screen. This potentially means an expanded audience for iOS apps, as well as the potential need to optimize iOS apps for desktop/laptop screen sizes. Importantly, Macs on the ARM platform will be able to run iOS and iPad apps, natively. While the full migration over to Apple-designed ARM chips will take an estimated two years, new Macs and Macbooks are expected to be released on the ARM platform as early as this year. The decision to move away from Intel CPUs in its Mac products (desktop and laptop computers) is anticipated to give Apple more control over release schedules, quality control, and performance customization. IPhone and iPad apps will be able to run natively on ARM-powered Macs Without further ado, here are some of the WWDC highlights you should be aware of, particularly if your business has an iOS mobile app or is planning to build one. On the topic of iOS 14, Apple announced that it will be implementing a number of iPhone features that should be very familiar to Android users (but may present an initial learning curve for long-time iPhone users). While at a glance this may seem to be purely a hardware change, the decision does have important software implications (including for iOS developers), which I’ll explain in a bit. One highly-anticipated but nonetheless substantial announcement coming out of this year’s conference was that Apple has decided to begin using its own ARM processors instead of Intel processors in Mac products going forward, beginning with new Macs arriving later this year. Following Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2020) last week, it was abundantly clear that while Apple’s manufacturing activity may have slowed due to the ongoing pandemic, Apple hasn’t exactly let up on the software development side of its business.
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