
Yesterday during the WWDC Apple announced the features of its upcoming iOS 8. With this new release they plan to make available a number of new APIs, among them:
- Capability of adding interactive widgets to the notifications area
- Health Kit
- Home Kit
- Adding Extensions to the Share Sheet
- Multiple keyboards
- Camera APIs
We have downloaded and installed the iOS 8 beta and have successfully compiled apps against it. More thorough testing is underway. If you would like to start testing yourself, here’s a quick guide of how to set it up alongside your current XCode installation.
Apple also announced Swift, a new Javascript-like programming language to build iOS apps. Swift not only compiles to the same binary as Objective C, but developers can use Objective C and Swift side-by-side. This means that you could build a Titanium native module for iOS in Objective C or Swift and start taking advantage of all of the great features of iOS 8 and Swift right now.
Make sure you log any findings or feature requests to Jira while we prepare for the official iOS 8 launch this fall.
Nothing about the TouchID API/KIT ?
Nicolo, please follow along at https://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/TIMOB-17071.
Any integration with iOS 8 HealthKit? I haven’t seen that yet…
@Jim please see HealthKit support ticket here:
https://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/TIMOB-17333
nice !
what about desktop sdk any news ?
I know this can sound strange… but why should I use Titanium (based on JS) if Apple lets you directly use a “JavaScript-like” language?
Aren’t Alloy/Hyperloop not very useful anymore for iOS development?
I appreciate your question. However you can not develop cross platform apps from Swift where as in AppC you can.
Hope this helps.
Is there a misunderstanding here? I am not able to compile against iOS 8 (SDK) — terminal interaction is functioning properly, the GUI doesn’t render at all though. Please update us regarding the iOS 8 issue, if there’s anything new.
Update: sorry. It was a configuration issue and compiles correctly now. Keep up the good work!
Just found a nice Swift training, it gives you a feeling what it’s all about….
http://www.udemy.com/swiftdeveloper
IOS 8.1 beta has really awesome features. I like it.