There’s a lot to digest from the WWDC Keynote. Many new SDK frameworks, updates, UI changes, features,… so much… but no new hardware. Interesting.
I intend to digest it a bit and then update this post w/ the real content. For now, I’ll just post my notes…
WWDC 2014 Keynote
70% first time WWDC attendees
new DEV release???
Spotlight updates – more like Alfred
iCloud drive
Mail Drop – large attachments, encrypted, link to attachment, 5GB limit
MarkUp
Safari
– tab swiping
– tab view button
– share button, recent recipients
Continuity…
AirDrop – btwn iOS and Mac
Handoff
– lock screen notification (bottom left)
– or to Mac – prompt on dock icon for app
Instant Hotspot – Mac sees iPhone, no config
SMS – across devices even w/ non-Messages
– Mac sees calls and works as speaker-phone
– dial number from Mac
Fall 2014 – free, public Beta in Summer
iOS 8
– developer features too
End User Features
interactive notifications (e.g., text) including lock screen and 3rdparty notifs
multi-task also shows recent people
New Safari tabview and sidebar
Mail – left/right swipes and down during compose to access other emails
Spotlight (like OSX)
SMS – details (participants, location), audio, video, notif: raise to ear, same to reply
iCloud Drive
Enterprise
– Single App Mode???
HealthKit – Health App
Family Sharing – photos, find, calendar, Reminders, media, prompted for parents permission for purchases
Photos – w/ iCloud – all photos, search: locations, near current locations, date, etc.
– photo editing
– sneak peak on Mac
iCloud Drive new prices
20GB $.99/month
200GB $3.99/month
Siri
– “Hey, Siri”
– Shazam song recognition
– streaming voice recog
iOS 8 – Developer Features
AppStore
– Explore tab
– Trending searches
– Scrolling results
– related searches
– App Bundles w/ discount
– app previews – videos
– TestFlight – invite users to beta test app, free
Fall
SDK – biggest release since launch of app store
– 4k+ new APIs
Extensibility
– extend system and offer serves to other apps including UI
– photo filters
– document providers (e.g., DropBox)
– widgets for notification center
– System wide 3p keyboard
Touch ID API
– 3p apps can use it, unlocks keychain items (not fingerprint data)
Camera APIs
– manual control of exposure, white level, etc.
HealthKit
HomeKit
– indiv or group devices, scenes, Siri
CloudKit
– replaces server (e.g. Parse.com?) FREE (w/ limits)
– scales based on users
Metal
– big graphic performance increases, precompiled shaders, etc.
SpriteKit
– light sources, field forces, per-pixel physics, inverse kinematics
SceneKit
– 3D scene render, casual games, physics engines, scripting
Xcode
– Objective-C w/o C… new language: Swift
– fast, modern, safe, interactive
– namespaces, multiple return types, closures, generics
– Cocoa/CocoaTouch, LLVM, ARC, same runtime – can run together w/ Obj-C and C
– Playgrounds
Swift
– Playgrounds – results on the right
– language guide available now in iBooks
– available Beta today
– available Fall back to iPhone 4S (others?)
