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Announcing the Swift Student Challenge 2027

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The Swift logo in a glossy, iridescent sphere, set over the numerals 27 on a blue and purple gradient background.

Apple is proud to support the next generation of developers, creators, and entrepreneurs with the Swift Student Challenge. The Challenge gives students from around the world the opportunity to showcase their creativity and app development skills.

The Challenge is open February 8–28, 2027. And new this year, students can submit an app for any Apple platform.

Learn more

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Hello Developer: November 2026

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Aerial view of the Berlin skyline at dusk, centered on the illuminated Berlin Television Tower (Fernsehturm) and Alexanderplatz.

In this supersized edition:

  • Join us at Europe’s first Apple Developer Center.
  • Say hello to Touch on Mac.
  • Learn about the Swift Student Challenge 2027.
  • Browse new App Review help articles.
  • Explore new subscription features.

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Introducing Firebase agent skills for Google Analytics

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Developers can equip coding agents with specialized Firebase skills to seamlessly initialize Google Analytics and instrument screenviews across modern UI frameworks.
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How We Brought CoreCLR to .NET MAUI and Mobile

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.NET mobile apps have used Mono since the early days of Xamarin. In .NET 11, .NET MAUI moves to CoreCLR on Android, iOS, Mac Catalyst, and tvOS.

We'll follow a simplified Android startup path to see where the runtime fits, then compare Mono AOT, ReadyToRun, and NativeAOT. Along the way, we'll explain trimming and show how JSON source generation helps prepare an application for NativeAOT, without confusing those additional constraints with the default move to CoreCLR.

Finally, we'll review startup and app-size results from Android and iOS and discuss what developers should test when moving to .NET 11. You'll leave with a clearer understanding of how .NET runs on mobile, what the new runtime means for your apps, and where to look when performance or compatibility does not behave as expected.

Session: BRK034

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Beyond Localhost: .NET Agents in Foundry

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Your agent runs on your machine. What's next? Join this session for a demo-packed look at hosted agents in Microsoft Foundry and what they unlock for C# developers. Discover what changes when your agents move beyond localhost, why a managed home matters, and how to bring your .NET skills along for the ride. Less infrastructure plumbing, more possibilities beyond your laptop.

Session: BRK031

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Protect your PC from AI coding agents while modernising legacy .NET apps

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Have you experienced or heard that AI coding agents accidentally removed files or directories, or accessed to resources that you didn't allow? It can happen from time to time. We can't get rid of this behaviour from our AI coding agents. However, we can isolate it from our PC.

Throughout this session, I'm going to discuss a couple of options how we can isolated or sandbox AI coding agents from our main PC while performing .NET app modernisation through the modernisation plugins of GitHub Copilot CLI.

Session: BRK035

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