At an Apple event back in March, Tim Cook impressed the crowd with the new MacBook and Apple Watch. But for many listeners, the most exciting development was the announcement of ResearchKit.

ResearchKit is an open-source framework that enables iOS developers to make medical research apps. It contains easy-to-use modules for obtaining user consent, conducting surveys, and collecting sensor data.

The source code for ResearchKit lives on GitHub and is open for contribution. The development community has already embraced this move with hundreds of forks, thousands of “stars,” and by making the framework available through the most popular iOS dependency manager CocoaPods.

I recently had the opportunity to write a full tutorial on how to make an app with ResearchKit in Swift for RayWenderlich.com. You can read the tutorial here. I hope it helps you get started with a medical research app!