Customer experience would be the key business differentiator for years to come. Brands and business decision makers, customer service analysts, and academics around the world share this common view when it comes to exploring ways to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The same effort found a reflection in Apple’s modus operandi at the WWDC 2016 finale. With the announcement of iOS 10, which is expected to hit the market in the fall of this year, Apple plans to boost its customer experience strategy and make a bigger impact in the market. Without a doubt, it will not come to fruition without the active support of all Swift app development companies and their development teams.

Let us take a look at the featured resources made available by the company in its latest IDE (Integrated Development Environment) i.e. Xcode 8.0 Beta to support the development of iOS 10 compatible apps.

Source Code Editor Extensions

Xcode 8 adds support for Xcode Source Editor Extensions. Application extensions provide additional commands in the Xcode editor menu. Extensions can be used to modify texts and selection areas. Swift app developers can use the Xcode Source Editor Extension Target Template in the macOS App Extensions section before getting started with any project.

interface builder

Migrating to automatic layout is easier with the integrated Interface Builder. It is no longer necessary for a developer to generate implicit constraints for unrestricted views. He or she can also zoom in and out of the interface on iOS, tvOS, and watchOS, as well as edit the coding. Xcode 8 offers a completely redesigned workflow for working with feature variations (for example, size classes) and favors designing the UI in terms of an actual device size rather than intentionally using abstract rectangles. The canvas allows developers to observe the interactions between iOS views as they appear at runtime, including the precise composition of the UIVisualEffectView.

Runtime Sanitizers

Xcode introduces a new Thread Sanitizer feature to help Swift developers with compiler instrumentation and runtime monitoring. This will help detect and eliminate data races and other concurrency errors in Swift or Objective-C programs. You can also catch memory corruption errors that are triggered by using types like UnsafeMutablePointer.

static analyzer

Helps check for voidability violations at both aggressive and less aggressive levels. The most aggressive level examines all calls for nullability violations. It remains active by default for new projects. The least aggressive level checks for nullability violations on calls to project headers. However, it does not do this with system headers.

children’s parks

Xcode Playgrounds targeting macOS will now run with open source Swift toolchains from Swift.org. However, Playgrounds targeting iOS or tvOS will be based on the Xcode 8.0 toolchain. The video tag associated with Playgrounds will also support remote URLs.

I hope this latest IDE in association with the powerful Swift 3.0 language will help Swift app development companies and their developers build quality apps that meet their customers’ needs. Undoubtedly, the approach should not dilute the comfort and convenience of end-users, as Apple won’t take any punches on that front.