Game Kit offers features that you can use to create great social games. Game Center offers a centralized game service that connects players to each other.

iAd allows your application to earn revenue by displaying advertisements to the user. Your application dedicates a portion of its user interface to display advertisements and in turn you receive revenue when users view or click those advertisements.

ObjectAL for iPhone is designed to be a simpler, more intuitive interface to OpenAL and AVAudioPlayer.

Create the games you love with Unity Unity is a game development ecosystem: a powerful rendering engine fully integrated with a complete set of intuitive tools and rapid workflows to create interactive 3D and 2D content; easy multiplatform publishing; thousands of quality, ready-made assets in the Asset Store and a knowledge-sharing community. For independent developers and studios, Unity’s democratizing ecosystem smashes the time and cost barriers to creating uniquely beautiful games. They are using Unity to build a livelihood doing what they love: creating games that hook and delight players on any platform.

ironSource builds discovery, engagement, monetization and anayltics tools for app developers, device manufacturers, mobile carriers, and advertisers.

Render advanced 3D graphics and perform data-parallel computations. Get fine-grained access to the GPU while minimizing CPU overhead. The Metal Framework provides extremely low-overhead access to the GPU, enabling incredibly high performance for your sophisticated graphics rendering and computational tasks. Metal eliminates many performance bottlenecks—such as costly state validation—that are found in traditional graphics APIs. Metal moves all expensive state translation and compilation operations out of the critical path of your most performance sensitive rendering code. It provides precompiled shaders, state objects, and explicit command scheduling to ensure that your application achieves the highest possible performance and efficiency. Graphics, compute, and blit commands can be used together seamlessly and efficiently. Metal is specifically designed to exploit modern architectural considerations, such as multiprocessing and shared memory, to make it easy to parallelize the creation of GPU commands.

Work with image and video assets managed by the Photos app, including those from iCloud Photo Library and Live Photos. Fetch and cache full-sized assets or thumbnails asynchronously, revise content, and sync revisions to multiple devices. In iOS and macOS, the Photos framework provides classes that support building photo editing extensions for the Photos app. In iOS and tvOS, the Photos framework also provides direct access to the photo and video assets managed by the Photos app, including the iCloud Photo Library. Use this framework to retrieve assets for display and playback, edit their image or video content, or work with collections of assets such as albums, moments, and iCloud Shared Albums.

The Watch Connectivity framework (WatchConnectivity.framework) provides a two-way communications conduit between an iOS app and a WatchKit extension on a paired Apple Watch. Apps use this framework to pass files and data back and forth. Most transfers happen in the background when the receiving app is inactive. When the app wakes up, it is notified of any data that arrived while it was inactive. Live communication is also possible when both apps are active.