Apple’s Swift-friendly tvOS is now available for developers

Sep09

by Sindy Cator on September 9, 2015 at 9:48 pm

Good news, developers — tvOS documentation and guidelines are live! An offshoot of iOS, tvOS is basically what we’ve come to love about using iPhones and iPads, just on the bigger screen. Happily, most of the tools iOS developers are comfortable with have made their way to tvOS. GameKit? It’s there. UIKit, SpriteKit, CoreImage and AVKit are also there. Apps for tvOS will need an iCloud backup for storing information (“and retrieve it in a way that provides a great customer experience”), so a little cloudKit know-how will go a long way with Apple TV. Interestingly enough, tvOS also inherits…