At its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2019 event
Apple disclosed the 'next variant' of its operating system for Macs dubbed as
macOS Catalina.
Being quite a progressive upgrade over the macOS 10 Mojave
operating system and will be made accessible to eligible Mac users in fall 2019
while the public beta for macOS Catalina is scheduled to arrive in July 2019.
The expansion of the cross platform applications under
Project Catalyst is a component that was first presented with macOS Mojave and
iOS 12 for the organization's own applications and is considered as one of the
biggest one.
Through iOS 13 and, Apple will now enable its developers to
use this element for testing their very own applications for compatibility.
Aside from the introduction of macOS Catalina, Apple
additionally displayed its new 'Find My' app likewise to be made accessible to
iOS. The 'Find My' app incorporates yet another network feature system with the
assistance of which consumers can track their Apple devices notwithstanding
when they are not connected with the internet.
As a piece of the company's new cross platform application
initiative, a large number of new and upgraded applications, including Apple
Music, Podcasts, Books, TV and Reminders have likewise been brought into
highlight.
While the music and TV apps are the new ones, the podcasts,
Books and Reminders apps are simply overhauled. The Music app is known to have
been supplanting iTunes, which has been being used for a long time now.
Notwithstanding this, the other updations made by Apple
incorporates features like Sidecar, RealityKit and the Swift UI.
While the Sidecar is introduced with macOS Catalina, with
the capacity to send any app to an external display, which includes connected
monitors and iPads. The RealityKit feature accessible in Apple's AR Kit 3 can
be accessed by developers within Xcode and numerous apps like Minecraft have
already begun utilizing it.
Finally the Swift UI feature is the successor to the Swift
code language Apple presented a couple of years prior, this element makes it a
lot simpler for the developers to code apps for the majority of Apple's
platforms and the X code -preview highlight displays how the apps will look
like, in real life.
