It's all about iOS7

Post date: Jun 13, 2013 9:50:46 AM

I'm really happy about iOS7 features, here I would like to walk through those features.

• This release basically focused on iOS UI changes. As a iOS developer personally I got screwed for this changes.

• They try to compete with Android, So iOS7 UI looks like the combination of Android+ windows8.

• iOS forgot a beautiful ROUNDRECT buttons and UI components, now these round rect design replaced with "Rectange" like Windows8

• You will have a bad time like me if you are not used iOS6 AutoLayout feature.

• I used iOS 5 appearance feature to design the navigation bar, now in iOS7 it was weird. So I end of with removing this code in iOS7

                                                    My App Portrait navigation bar in iOS 7

                                                   Landscape navigation bar in iOS 7

• In iOS 7 my app picker view controller looks really bad.

                                                   Picker view controller in iOS7

The New Frameworks:

1. SpriteKit.framework provides supports for sprite-based animations and graphics redering.

   •  Your object should inherited from SKScene object.

   • Scene is the root node in a tree of Sprite kit nodes(SKNode)

Below screen shot show SpriteKit same application

2. GameController.framework provides an interface for communicating with game related hardware;

    It means if any game controller device like joy strick, micro phone, connected physically to an iOS device or connected wirelessly over bluetooth then this controller will notify you to handle those event.

It's related to game software, I'm not aware of these things. We will go to next feature.

3. MultipeerConnectivity.framework Peer-to-Peer Connectivity- This is multipeer Connectivity frameworks provides peer-to-peer networks for app;

This framework allows you to find the nearest device to exchange the datas and share the internet connections.

4. JavaScriptCore.framework If you are a Hybrid app developer then you would be wonder with this framework. Here after you no need to search for JSON parser and javascript bridge to call javascript function from objective C vise versa.

5. MediaAccessibility.framework Media Accessibility framework manges the presentation of closed-caption content in  your media files. I'm really don't know what they are talking about. I have to go through this framework to understand this functionality 

6. SafariServices.framework This is safari service framework provides support for programmatically adding URLs to the user's safari reading list. Some how we got safari API to interact with

Multitasking 

 Finally apple realise that our app needs to be run in the background for some critical process or download/upload some important information while it is in the background. Here onward you suppose to register for UIBackgroundModes key with the fetch value in your app's Info.plist.

setMinimumBackgroundFetchInterval: 

set the minimum time you want between fetch operations

 You must implement below method in your app delegate to perform any downloads

application:performFetchWithCompletionHandler:  

If you want to handle push notification to notify the user that new content is available,

UIBackgroundModes= remote-notification in plist

application:didReceiveRemoteNotification:fetchCompletionHandler: