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[cfsp key="adsense_336x280"]Apple today released
its iOS 8 SDK, the biggest developer release ever with more than 4,000 new
APIs, giving developers the ability to create amazing new apps like never
before. iOS 8 allows developers to further customize the user experience with
major extensibility features like Notification Center widgets and third-party
keyboards; and introduces robust frameworks such as HealthKit and HomeKit. iOS
8 also includes Metal, a new graphics technology that maximizes the performance
of the A7 chip and Swift, a powerful new programming language.
“With more than 800 million iOS devices sold
worldwide, the opportunity for developers is huge,” said Craig Federighi,
Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “This is the biggest iOS
release since the launch of the App Store. The iOS 8 SDK delivers more than
4,000 new APIs including amazing new frameworks, greater extensibility and a
revolutionary new programming language.”
iOS 8 offers developers robust frameworks
including HealthKit APIs that provide the ability for health and fitness apps
to communicate with each other. With your permission, each app can use specific
information from other apps to provide a more comprehensive way to manage your
health and fitness. For example, your blood pressure app could share its data
with a physician app, such as the Mayo Clinic app, so your doctor can provide
high-quality guidance and care.
“We believe Apple’s HealthKit will revolutionize
how the health industry interacts with people,” said John Noseworthy, M.D.,
Mayo Clinic president and CEO. “We are proud to be at the forefront of this
innovative technology with the Mayo Clinic app.”
As HealthKit combines health data to help you
take better care of your health, HomeKit lets your home accessories connect
seamlessly to better manage your home. HomeKit delivers a common protocol,
secure pairing and the ability to easily control individual or groups of
devices throughout the house including integration with Siri®. For example, you
can tell Siri you are “going to bed” and it could dim the lights, lock your
doors, close the garage door and set the thermostat.
“We are excited to be part of the next step in
making home automation a reality, in a safe and integrated way,” said Eric
Rondolat, CEO, Philips Lighting. “HomeKit will allow us to further enhance the
Philips Hue lighting experience by making it simpler to securely pair devices
throughout the house and control them using Siri.”
Developers can further customize the user
experience with iOS extensions, including new sharing options, custom photo
filters, custom actions and document APIs. Developers can now add their own
widgets into Notification Center, and third-party keyboards offer additional
layouts and input methods.
Gaming on iOS takes a huge leap forward in iOS 8
with Metal, a new graphics technology that maximizes performance on the A7
chip. With its dramatic 10 times improvement in draw call speed, Metal enables
leading game providers for the first time to bring console-class 3D games to
mobile devices. For casual games, iOS 8 now features SceneKit, making it easy
to create fun 3D games, along with major enhancements to SpriteKit, including
field forces, per-pixel physics and inverse kinematics.
Swift is a powerful new programming language for
iOS and OS X® that makes it easier than ever for developers to create
incredible apps. Designed for Cocoa® and Cocoa Touch®, Swift combines the
performance and efficiency of compiled languages with the simplicity and
interactivity of popular scripting languages. By design, Swift helps developers
write safer and more reliable code by eliminating entire categories of common
programming errors, and coexists with Objective-C® code, so developers can
easily integrate Swift into their existing apps. Xcode® Playgrounds make
writing Swift code incredibly interactive by instantly displaying the output of
Swift code.
iOS 8 also includes Touch ID™ APIs enabling
developers to securely authenticate users within apps, protect logins and user
data, and unlock keychain items. With iOS 8, developers can provide
authentication with a successful fingerprint match while keeping your
fingerprint data safe and protected in the secure enclave.
Additional iOS 8 developer features include:
• PhotoKit, so developers can tap into the power
of the same robust framework as the built-in Photos app for faster performance,
nondestructive edits and the ability to both read and write to the Photos
library;
• new Camera APIs, giving developers fine grain
control over focus, white balance and exposure;
• CloudKit, a complete and scaleable back-end
solution helps developers eliminate the need for writing server code and
maintaining servers; and
• new App Store℠ features for developers like app
previews and app bundles, the new iTunes Connect with free analytics and
TestFlight for beta testing pre-release apps.
iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® customers have
access to the revolutionary App Store, which offers more than 1.2 million apps
in 155 countries around the world. The App Store receives more than 300 million
visitors each week and iOS users have downloaded more than 75 billion apps.
The iOS 8 beta software and SDK are available
immediately for iOS Developer Program members at developer.apple.com. This fall
iOS 8 will be available as a free software update for iPhone 4s, iPhone 5,
iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPod touch 5th generation, iPad 2, iPad with Retina®
display, iPad Air™, iPad mini™ and iPad mini with Retina display. iCloud® Photo
Library and iCloud Drive™ use your iCloud storage with the first 5GB free.
Features are subject to change. Some features may not be available in all
regions or all languages.
A beta version of Swift is available immediately
for iOS and OS X Developer Program members at developer.apple.com. The final
version will be made available this fall, and apps written in Swift can be
submitted to the App Store and Mac® App Store when iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite are
released.
Source: Apple Inc.
MacDailyNews | Monday, June 2, 2014 at 3:04 pm |
Tags: HealthKit, HomeKit, iOS 8, iOS 8 SDK, Swift, WWDC 2014 | Categories: News
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