Call for Applications at the Apple Developer Academy 2026

Apple Developer Academy

Call for Applications at the Apple Developer Academy 2026

Become a World Class Developer at the Apple Developer Academy in Naples, Italy. Call for Application 2026/27.

App Design

Beyond the Human: Designing with Non-Human Personas in Mobile Apps

Design beyond the screen, non-human personas bring environmental reality into decision-making, from energy grids to cooling systems.

Spatial Computing

Solid Interfaces for visionOS: Widgets and Cognitive Space in Spatial Computing

A new grammar for designing Cognitive Spatial Experiences in visionOS and WebXR.

App Design

Branding with AI: Superpowers for Indie Creators

Build products that are not only functional but meaningful. Not only efficient, but expressive. Not only usable, but intentional.

App Intents

Sharing content among apps using AppEntity and Transferable protocol

Learn how to make content in your app shareable across apps using AppEntity and Transferable.

Spatial Computing

K.I.T.E. UX: The First Spatial Ergonomics Benchmark for XR

Create wireframe visionOS decisions and validate layouts before you write a single line of code.

SwiftUI

Managing simultaneous, in sequence and exclusive gestures

Understand how to compose multiple gestures together to create complex interactions in a SwiftUI app.

StoreKit

Providing access to premium features with StoreKit 2

Learn how to build a tiered subscription system and gate premium features in a SwiftUI app using StoreKit 2.

SwiftUI

Crafting document-based apps in SwiftUI

Understand document-based apps with SwiftUI.

EventKit

Creating reminder lists with EventKit from your app

Create new calendars in EventKit to organize reminders or events under custom lists

SwiftUI

Understanding gesture hierarchy

Learn how to set up the hierarchy of gestures in views and subviews within a SwiftUI app.

SwiftUI

Understanding Spring Animations in SwiftUI

Learn how to use spring animations to enhance the experience of your users in SwiftUI apps.

Contacts

Contact Management: Working with the Contact Picker View Controller

Learn how to use the default controls for handling contacts provided by Apple in your SwiftUI app.

StoreKit

Implementing Consumable In-App Purchases with StoreKit 2

Learn how to start selling Consumable In-App Purchases in your SwiftUI app.

StoreKit

Implementing subscriptions In-App Purchases with StoreKit 2

Learn how to start selling subscriptions In-App Purchases in your SwiftUI app.

SwiftUI

Understanding scenes for your macOS app

Learn how to manage scenes and windows within a SwiftUI app.

App Design

The power of ethics in mobile design

Mobile design is intimate. They are tools people hold in their hands and check hundreds of times a day. That’s why mobile developers hold a quiet kind of power: we don’t just make interfaces, we shape behavior, expectations, and trust –whether we mean to or not. As technology

UX Design

Designing with people: Creating applications for reality

Understand the value of designing applications, including the communities they are for, in the process.

Contacts

Creating Contacts with SwiftUI

Learn how to add contacts to the user’s device within a SwiftUI app.

StoreKit

Implementing Non-Consumable In-App Purchases with StoreKit 2

Learn how to start selling Non-Consumable In-App Purchases in your SwiftUI app.

SwiftUI

Enabling drag-and-drop and clipboard operations with the Transferable protocol

Learn how to enable the entities of your model to work with drag-and-drop in SwiftUI.

SwiftUI

Understanding the Transferable Protocol in Swift

Learn how to prepare your custom types to be sharable between applications and system features with the Transferable protocol.

SwiftUI

Responding to gestures: Rotating

Discover how to respond to rotation gestures in a SwiftUI app.

StoreKit

Managing In-App Purchases in your apps

Discover the possible ways to monetize your app with the native tools provides by Apple with StoreKit 2.

App Design

Designing Humanist Data Visualization for Mobile

Explore how to design the visualization of data in your applications, aligning with your users' needs and goals.