Xcode 11 can coexist with previous versions of Xcode. Xcode 11 includes SwiftUI, a new Swift framework to provides views, controls, and layout structures for declaring your app's user interface. Xcode 11 provides design tools to make it as easy as drag-and-drop to construct or edit UI, all in the same Swift code file you can also edit. On June 3, 2019, at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Xcode version 11 was announced; a beta version was released the same day. Xcode 11 introduced support for the new features in Swift 5.1, as well as the new SwiftUI framework (although the interactive UI tools are available only when running under macOS 10.15). Current version. The current version of Xcode can be accessed either through the App store, or the Xcode downloads page. Older versions of Xcode can be found by logging into the Apple Developer Downloads page and searching for the version of Xcode you need. Xamarin System Requirements.
We are happy to announce that we have just released Cordova iOS 6.0.0! This is Cordova's official platform for building iOS mobile applications.
Release Highlights
To upgrade:
The most notable changes in this major release are:
Added Xcode 11 compatibility and bumped minimum iOS version to 11.0
As of April 2020, Apple requires all app store submissions to be built with Xcode 11 and target the iOS 13 SDK.
Apple has deprecated the
mediaPlaybackRequiresUserActionproperty in iOS 8.0–9.0 and replaced it withmediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlayback.Apple has also deprecated themediaPlaybackAllowsAirPlayproperty in iOS iOS 8.0-9.0 and replaced it withallowsAirPlayForMediaPlayback.If you have configured any of these properties in your project's
config.xmlfile, it is recommended that you update with the new preferences optionsMediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlaybackorAllowsAirPlayForMediaPlayback.Additionally, the values for
MediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlaybackhas changed. It use to be abooleanvalue but is now astringvalue of eitherall,audio,video, ornone.Moved
WKWebViewsupport into Cordova-iOS and removedUIWebViewcodeDue to this change, the
cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engineplugin is obsolete and will not work with this release. If you have this plugin installed, it is safe to remove withcordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine.Additionaly,
WKURLSchemeHandlersupport has been introduced with this release. Using a custom scheme to serve your app content through fixes CORS issues that exist because of the strict security policies thatWKWebViewhas applied to thefilescheme. You can easily configure your Cordova project to use a custom scheme by setting the preference optionsschemeandhostnamein theconfig.xmlfile.It is important to know that with the introduction of
WKURLSchemeHandler, iOS 10 support has been dropped.Integrated
SplashScreenplugin code & replaced Launch Images with Launch StoryboardsIf you're migrating from launch images, details on how to set up images for Launch Storyboards can be found in the SplashScreen documentation.
Fixed overwriting the bundle identifier when there are multiple Xcode build targets
Bumped minimum CocoaPods version requirements to 1.8.0
Since CocoaPods 1.7.0, CDN support was introduced. It was later finalized in 1.7.2 but was not configured as the default until 1.8.0. Using CDN to fetch podspecs over the traditional GitHub repo provides a huge performance enhancement. With CDN, Cordova users no longer need to wait for the CocoaPod's GH repo to be synced. Building a project with pods and a fresh CocoaPods installation takes under a minute now.
You can take a look at their demonstration video here to see how fast CocoaPods has become with CDN.
Please report any issues you find at issues.cordova.io!
- GH-875 fix: remove
qleftover - chore(
audit-license-headers): add & correct license - GH-874 chore: cleanup & prep for 6.0.0 release
- GH-873 chore: remove unassigned splash image
- GH-872 chore: remove migrate
English.lprojdeprecated warning - GH-871 chore: enable base internalization for
CordovaLib - GH-866 refactor: default to file scheme
- GH-852 ci: use github actions
- GH-869 refactor: bump eslint w/ lint fix & rebuilt package-lock
- GH-860 breaking: drop
qdependency - GH-859 refactor: use
superspawn - GH-851 breaking: replace
shelljswithfs-extra - GH-862 revert:
ios-sim^9.0.0to^8.0.2 - GH-863 chore (npm): add ignore list
- GH-861 chore: add
package-lock.json - GH-790 breaking feature: Integrate & replace SplashScreens w/ Launch Storyboard (CB-13143)
- GH-769 breaking: add python 3 compatibility to
bin/cordova_plist_to_config_xml - GH-847 breaking: add & use
fs-extraw/ fixes - GH-853 breaking: bump
xcodew/ fix - GH-850 breaking: fix file's
chmod - GH-849 breaking(
pod): remove unused API & bump minimum version requirements to1.8.0 - GH-848 breaking: bump
cordova-common@4.0.1 - GH-846 breaking(npm): bump dependencies
- GH-845 breaking(npm): bump dev dependencies
- GH-825 Fix type warnings and simplify code with auto boxing.
- GH-615 (ios) Don't pre-fill
orientation - GH-820 Only set
bundleidto main app target - Update CONTRIBUTING.md
- GH-822 chore: remove deprecated
orientationmethods - GH-810 Remove dead link to wiki from
README - GH-543 feat: Add
Podspecfor Cordova library - GH-801 breaking (
UserAgent): DropCDVUserAgentUtiland Implement forWKWebView - GH-803 feature: add
CLANG_ANALYZER_LOCALIZABILITY_NONLOCALIZED - GH-802 refactor: applied various xcode recommended update
- GH-800 tests: change comment values for
MediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlayback - GH-781 breaking: Use
WKURLSchemeHandlerfor serving app content - GH-797 breaking: remove MediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction and update
MediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlaybackto proper variable types - GH-798 refactor (
cordovaBoolSettingForKey): improve boolean checks and native logging - GH-785 refactor: deprecate
mediaPlaybackAllowsAirPlay - GH-794 style: remove extra space from Objective-C test modules
- GH-784 chore: deprecate
mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction - GH-783 breaking (
CDVURLProtocol): delete - GH-789 chore: fix deprecated
stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncodingusage - GH-788 chore: remove deprecated method
viewDidUnload - GH-780 breaking: upgrade xcode compatible to 11.0
- GH-787 fix (
CDVWebViewEngine): JavaScript to Native Call Not Working - GH-786 test: run on Xcode 11 only
- GH-782 fix (
node): require failure withshebanginterpreter - GH-779 breaking: bump
deployment-targetto11.0 - GH-773 refactor: drop
uiwebview& addwkwebview - GH-751 refactor: use template strings
- GH-749 refactor: transform split out variables
- GH-750 refactor: transform object shorthand
- GH-748 refactor: do not alias this to self
- GH-747 refactor: use arrow functions
- GH-754 fix: replace variables in
Podfile - GH-746 refactor: transform
vartolet/const - GH-744 chore: updated
eslintwith applied fix - GH-743 chore: bump
noderequirement (>=10) - GH-731 CB-14135(ios): escape all single quotes from name in
Podfile
System Requirements | What's New | Known Issues | Blogs | Open Source
To see installation instructions for both Visual Studio for Mac and Visual Studio 2019, please visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/get-started/installation
Requirements
- The latest features and APIs require Xcode 11 and the bundled iOS, tvOS and watchOS SDKs
- Apple Xcode 11 requires a Mac running macOS 10.14.4 (Mojave) or newer
- Visual Studio 2019 or Visual Studio for Mac
What's New in this Release
Support for Xcode 11
For more information you can consult the Xcode 11 release notes from Apple.
Support for iOS 13 and iPadOS 13
See our API diff to browse the latest changes.
For more information you can consult the iOS & iPadOS 13 release notes from Apple.
Support for tvOS 13
See our API diff to browse the latest changes.
For more information you can consult the tvOS 13 release notes from Apple.

Support for watchOS 6
See our API diff to browse the latest changes.
For more information you can consult the watchOS 6 release notes from Apple.
Support for uploading iOS, tvOS and watchOS Apps to iTunes Connect
Starting with Xcode 11, Apple stopped distributing Application Loader, which was used to publish Apps to the iTunes Connect website.
We updated our MSBuild tasks to make use of a new tool shipped with Xcode: altool.
This is a necessary step for the IDEs to continue providing the ability to publish Apps to the App Store.
Release History
This version of Xamarin.iOS corresponds to our xcode11 milestone and is based of the 16.2 release.
- September 12, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 13.0.0.19
- September 3, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 12.99.4.26
- August 21, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 12.99.3.5
- August 7, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 12.99.2.40
- July 25, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 12.99.2.26
- July 10, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 12.99.1.27
- June 27, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 12.99.0.159
September 12, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 13.0.0.19

Tip
This version can be used to submit Apps to the App Store.
This seventh preview is based on Xcode 11 GM. More frameworks and API are now available. Future releases will include additional API as they become available.
Updated frameworks
- 6852 - AVFoundation
- 6972 - ClockKit
- 6919 - CoreAudioKit
- 6896 - CoreData
- 6943 - CoreHaptics
- 6973 - CoreLocation
- 6908 - CoreMidi
- 6976 - CoreText
- 6897 - ImageIO
- 6934 - MapKit
- 6956 - MetalKit
- 6969 - MetricKit
- 6930 - ModelIO
- 6978 - StoreKit
Enhancements
- 6921 - [Foundation] Expose the usage of cellular data in the
NSUrlSessionHandler. It can sometimes be useful to turn this off and it was not easy with the existing implementation. - 6942 - [MediaPlayer] Enable API that depend on AVFoundation types for watchOS.
- 6947 - [Versions] Add iOS/tvOS 12.3 & 12.4 as well as watchOS 5.3 to our versions files so we offer those options in the IDEs.
Issues
- 6906 - Updated mono to include workaround for broken Hebrew and other non-Gregorian calendars.
- 6926 - [package] Rename bundle identifier for the frameworks we ship. Apple added an App Store check to reject Apps with multiple frameworks with the same bundle identifier.
- 6899 - [mlaunch] Fix issues launching/installing with the watch simulator.
- 6948 - [UIKit] Make
UITraitCollectionthread-safe.
September 3, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 12.99.4.26
This sixth preview is based on Xcode 11 beta 7. More frameworks and API are now available. Future previews will include additional API as they become available.
New frameworks
This preview includes the following updates to existing frameworks (all API updated to beta 7 unless noted)
- 6874 - Network (new in watchOS 6.0)
Updated frameworks
- 6748 - AVKit Community Contribution ❤️
- 6678 - CarPlay
- 6858 - CoreMedia
- 6822 - CoreVideo
- 6867 - Security (Partial Update)
- 6837 - Vision
- 6844 - VisionKit
- 6882 - WatchKit
Other changes
- 6878 - Bump the minimum iOS version to 7.0. Deprecation ℹ️
- 6850 - [registrar] Fix verification of generic parameters to accept unrelated generic types
- 6819 - [authenticationservices] Remove [Abstract] from
ASAuthorizationPasswordRequest - 6864 - [runtime] Build native code with -std=c++14. This is required by Apple to compile headers in C++ mode
- 6855 - [mtouch] Detect when we run into the 32-bit arm size limitation, and report a better error
- 6859 - [generator] Reference bound
Appearancetypes usingglobal::syntax - 6880 - [Foundation] Ensure that the collection is not modified during the loop
- 6872 - [UIKit] Fix threading issue in the selector
performAsCurrentTraitCollection
August 21, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 12.99.3.5
This fifth preview is based on Xcode 11 beta 6. More frameworks and API are now available. Future previews will include additional API as they become available.
Updated frameworks
This preview includes the following updates to existing frameworks (all API updated to beta 6 unless noted)
- 6804 - AuthenticationServices
- 6771 - ContactsUI
- 6784 - CoreML
- 6731 - CoreText
- 6751 - EventKit Community Contribution ❤️
- 6746 - ExternalAccessory
- 6759 & 6801 - FileProvider[UI]
- 6754 - Foundation
- 6773 - GameKit
- 6710 - HomeKit Community Contribution ❤️
- 6780 - iAd
- 6733 - MediaAccessibility
- 6741 - NaturalLanguage
- 6788 - NetworkExtension
- 6743 - PdfKit
- 6789 - QuicklookThumbnailing
- 6803 - ReplayKit
- 6767 - SafariServices
- 6760 - StoreKit
- 6807 - UIKit
- 6800 - VideoSubscriberAccount
August 7, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 12.99.2.40
This fourth preview is based on Xcode 11 beta 5. More frameworks and API are now available. Future previews will include additional API as they become available.
Updated frameworks
This preview includes the following updates to existing frameworks (all API updated to beta 5 unless noted)
- 6718 - AuthenticationServices
- 6589 - GameController
- 6692 - HealthKit
- 6625 - IntentsUI Community Contribution ❤️
- 6719 - PassKit
- 6705 - SoundAnalysis
- 6717 - UIKit
- 6645 - VideoToolbox Community Contribution ❤️
Other changes
- 6703 - [UIKit] Add [BindAs] UIWindowSceneSessionRole to fix casting error
July 25, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 12.99.2.26
This third preview is based on Xcode 11 beta 4. More frameworks and API are now available. Future previews will include additional API as they become available.
Updated frameworks
This preview includes the following updates to existing frameworks (all API updated to beta 4 unless noted)
- 6608 - ARKit
- 6617 - AuthenticationServices
- 6581 - CallKit
- 6563 - Contacts
- 6582 - CoreAudioKit
- 6600 - CoreLocation
- 6513 - CoreMedia partial update
- 6576 - CoreTelephony
- 6562 - CoreText partial update
- 6538 - Foundation
- 6596 - MediaPlayer
- 6579 - NotificationCenter Community Contribution ❤️
- 6612 - PencilKit
- 6521 - Photos
- 6624 - PhotosUI
- 6610 - ReplayKit
- 6577 - SpriteKit
- 6553 - UIKit
Other changes
- 6619 - [authenticationservices] Fix
ASAuthorizationandASAuthorizationRequest - 6609 - [corenfc] Fix typo in
wellKnownTypeTextPayloadWithString - 6637 - [generator] Do not use hardcoded
errorvar name, use the one in the declaration - 6529 - [package] Fix dialog when installing on 10.15
- 6493 - [registar] Fix
NSURLsessionDelegateissues
July 10, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 12.99.1.27
This second preview is based on Xcode 11 beta 3. More frameworks and API are now available. Future previews will include additional API as they become available.
New frameworks
This preview includes the following new frameworks (all API updated to beta 3)
- 6438 - BackgroundTasks
- 6437 - LinkPresentation
- 6491 - PencilKit
New CoreImage filters
A new CoreImage filter:
- 6480
CIRoundedRectangleGenerator
Updated frameworks
This preview includes the following updates to existing frameworks (all API updated to beta 3 unless noted)
- 6482 - AuthenticationServices
- 6460 - ARKit
- 6434 - AudioToolBox
- 6434 - AudioUnit
- 6470 - CallKit
- 6512 - CarPlay
- 6508 - ClockKit
- 6472 - CloudKit
- 6475 - CoreBluetooth
- 6511 - IdentityLookup
- 6510 - IdentityLookupUI
- 6499 - JavaScriptCore
- 6457 - MediaAccessibility
- 6447 - PassKit
- 6479 - QuickLook
- 6483 - ReplayKit
- 6440 - Speech
- 6481 - VideoSubscriberAccount
- 6496 - WKWebKit
Other changes
- 6484 - The
IncomingCallNotifications.frameworkwas removed from Xcode 11 beta 3 - 6505 - [coremidi] Fix creating a native
MidiThruConnectionParamsStruct
Xcode 11 Latest Version Download
June 27, 2019 - Xamarin.iOS 12.99.0.159
This first preview is based on Xcode 11 beta 2. Many of the new API are already available. Future previews will include additional API as they become available.
New frameworks
This preview includes the following new frameworks (all API updated to beta 2)
- 6374 - IncomingCallNotifications
- 6415 - PencilKit
- 6351 - SoundAnalysis
New CoreImage filters
New CoreImage filters includes:
CIDocumentEnhancerCIGaborGradientsCIKMeansCIKeystoneCorrectionCIKeystoneCorrectionCombinedCIKeystoneCorrectionHorizontalCIKeystoneCorrectionVerticalCIMorphologyRectangleCIMorphologyRectangleMaximumCIPaletteCentroidCIPalettizeCIPerspectiveRotate
Updated frameworks
This preview includes the following updates to existing frameworks (all API updated to beta 2)
- 6408 - AuthenticationServices including Sign In with Apple support
- 6405 - ClockKit
- 6397 - CoreAnimation
- 6337 - CoreGraphics
- 6358 - CoreImage partial update, new filters only
- 6419 - CoreMotion
- 6370 - CoreNFC
- 6433 - JavaScriptCore
- 6404 - MediaLibrary
- 6377 - MessageUI
- 6432 - PushKit
- 6367 - ReplayKit
- 6396 - TVMLKit
- 6391 - TVServices
- 6378 - TVUIKit
- 6392 - UIKit partial update
- 6355 - UserNotifications
- 6292 - WKWebKit
Enhancements
- 6389 - Improve bindings for
NWProtocolMetadatato more gracefully report incorrect usage
Known Issues
- 6333 - Unable to use
PhotosUIas framework's header can not compile.
AOT-compilation for 32-bit architectures fails on macOS 10.15 Catalina
AOT-compilation for 32-bit device architectures (ARMv7, ARMv7s and ARMv7k)does not work on macOS 10.15 Catalina.
This will be fixed in a future release.
For more information see issue #6925.
Installing on macOS 10.15 Catalina
You might get a security dialog before the installer can be executed. This will be fixed in a future preview. Additional information can be found here.
Using an older Xcode version
Using an older Xcode version (than the one mentioned in the above requirements) is often possible. For more information see the following documentation.
API Diff
The following documents contains a complete list of the API changes since the Xamarin.iOS 12.14 release:
Xcode 11 Latest Version Download
Integrated Mono Features/Fixes
Xamarin.iOS uses a customized runtime and base class libraries (BCL) fromMono 6.0Commit 537654c
Feedback
Your feedback is important to us. If there are any problems with this release, check the Xamarin.iOS Forums and Github Issues for existing issues. If you do not find any matching issue, please feel free to start a new discussion and report an issue.
Open Source
Xamarin.iOS is based on the following open-source repositories:
- xamarin-macios branch
xcode11 - mono branch
2019-02
Contributors
Xcode 11 Latest Version Latest
A big Thank You! to external contributors who made improvements in this release:
