iOS 7 and iOS 8 : What all Developers and Users should Know
A quick look on all major features , benefits and drawbacks of iOS 7 and iOS 8 . Whether a
veteran Mobile App Developer or an end user, here’s everything about iOS Application that
you should pay heed to .
iPhone lets you do so many things so easily and quickly accompanied with its amazing
Camera , the Retina Display and longer Battery life that no wonder iPhone users truly love
their iPhone.
iPhone is so easy to use, Innovative features like Siri and FaceTime plus builtin apps
make iPhone not just useful for everyone but also fun to explore and operate. iOS updates
download right on your iPhone, so the latest iOS version is only just a tap away. Also iOS
features are designed to work perfectly with iPhone features like the Retina display,
gyroscope , and accelerometer.
iOS is also the platform for over 900,000 apps that let your favourite iPhone do even more.
With the availability of its seventh update, iOS 7 is now ticking inside over 300 million
devices worldwide.
iOS 7 gives you more features to make the things you do everyday even more better. Its
free and easy to upgrade wirelessly on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
Since there are about 500 million iGadgets, those running on iOS 7 account for 60% of the
entire flock .
After the release of iOS 7 in June 10th 2013, the iPhone market grew at a very rapid pace
providing some amazing features and facilitation to the developers for developing apps.
iOS 7 adoption climbed to 87% in the months prior to iOS 8 Release. iOS 7 comes with a
new user interface with flatter and simpler style and is visually different from usual iOS
versions .
Some amazing Features of iOS 7 are just a click away
● Multitasking iOS 7 includes an updated task manager to show the app preview
before hand. It includes intelligent scheduling to periodically update the app based
on how frequently the app is used.
● Safari Enhanced safari allows to show a preview of the webpage as user is
switching between them. It also includes new bookmarks menu that contains shared
links from people you follow on social media.
● Camera It contains photo filters and a redesigned photo app that organizes
photos automatically into moments with respect to date and location .
● Improved Siri The Siri was improved to include the ability to make reservations in
restaurants, launch apps, dictate Facebook or Twitter updates and retrieve movie
reviews. This feature was added in iOS 6. With iOS 7 update siri can now have
more access to Wikipedia , Twitter and Bing Search engines.
● AirDrop With this feature you can share data and pictures with nearby people . It
supports share sheet and is available on recent devices like iPad Mini, IPhone 5
and iPod Touch.
● ITunes Radio Its a streaming music service quite similar to Pandora , it features
radio stations based on an genre. It enables browsing Radio history and buying
music directly from the app and adding to your iTunes wish list.
● The folders now support saving multiple pages in a single folder. All purchased
videos and audios shows up even if they are not on your device.
The Apple iOS 7 has brought big changes to the mobile platform including scores of
enhanced functionalities and features . This update has provided mobile developers with
over 1500 new APIs to work with .
Pros of iOS 7 include
➔ This update brought with it major changes targeting especially mobile developers in
order to ease out or simplify the entire process of Mobile app development. It helps
developers to become more creative and productive with their apps .
➔ The look and feel of UI has undergone a massive change making it look more
modern and contemporary. The new version uses transparency , layering and blur to
add illusion of depth. Now app designers can experiment more with textures and
colors making better elegant icons compared to previous versions .
➔ It offers several toolkits to designers to build more powerful apps even faster than
before which will also prove to be beneficial to end users.
➔ iOS 7 comes with a powerful multi tasking abilities with its processor performance
making the apps more efficient as they can still function in background even when
inactive without effecting the system performance.
➔ It offers better iCloud facilities with Airdrop and improvised control of GUI handling
and much powerful rendering of graphics with enhanced OpenGL functionality.
➔ The upgrade includes support to all major social platforms which is a boon to end
users , app developers , mobile marketers and businesses as a whole . It also
includes peer to peer SDK to wirelessly exchange data via an exclusive framework.
But as there is two sides to a coin, even iOS 7 Suffers from few drawbacks and
challenges which demands equal attention :
➔ Making a Transition was never easy though. The biggest challenge for developers
is to make the iOS 7 app backward compatible to older iOS versions. Not all users
feel the excitement and same urge to make a transition immediately , so developers
have to design apps in such a way that it retains their existing customer base while
also keeping a step with the latest moves in mobile evolution.
➔ Several APIs are yet in process of being documented with many notable changes in
between releases creating complications and much of a challenge to developers.
➔ The UI kit included in iOS 7 SDK is much different from its previous versions which
can result in some UI elements looking worse or not rendering well enough on the
device. Buggy apps that crashes frequently is also a downside as it discourages
users from using them .
➔ iOS 7 apps though compatible with iphone 4 runs slowly on those devices and older
iphones and ipods users are generally unwilling to upgrade themselves to latest
models , so if developers develop targeted apps for updated versions they may end
up losing their existing customer base.
Apple has recently taken the wraps off its 8th and latest version iOS 8 of Mobile Operating
System in June 2014 in San Francisco .
This new operating system is not the complete overhaul as with iOS 7 rather it builds on
iOS 7 . It comprises newer features like health monitoring technology, new family sharing
functions for iTunes , video messaging and much more.
Let’s highlight some notable features of iOS 8 :
★ Its the 8th major release of iOS mobile operating system designed by Apple on
June 2 2014 .
★ Messaging in iOS 8 is more fun, there are many surprising features that comes with
it. It enables sending audio and video messages by holding the record button.
★ New photo app and new iCloud Photo Library.
★ UI designs are same as that of iOS 7 with few changes like more transparency and
faster animations .
★ Multitasking is even more improved to show favourite contacts and recently added
lists.
★ For the first time since the first iphone, keyboard has witnessed the biggest change
as third party keyboards will now be available and you can even tap to choose
perfect suggestions for the next word.
★ Family sharing is a commendable change that comes up with this version. Now up
to six people in your family can share purchases from iBooks, iTunes and App store
without sharing accounts.
★ Now you can store all your data i.e spreadsheets, presentations, images and PDF’s
in iCloud and can access them anytime anywhere from your iPhone, iPad, Mac
,iPod Touch etc.
★ HealthKit a new tool for developers allows health and fitness apps to work together
and provide a dashboard for your healthfitness data .
★ Another notable feature includes sharing emails and websites through WiFi , it
also allows replying to text and calls from their iphone on their Mac or ipad.
★ Spotlight : It provides suggestions and ideas from Wikipedia entries of trending
news and nearby places after recognizing the location.
★ Touch ID : Now no need to enter password for using third party apps . You can use
touch Id i.e your fingerprints to access your data.
With this trending market of iphones and iOS 8 , there are extensive features that iphone
developers should get accustomed with before developing their apps. iOS 8 with its
advanced features provides assistance to developers while making mobile apps for
iphone and ipad.
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