Adapting iOS8

Guidelines, gotchas and some cool stuff to consider when making your app ready for iOS8

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1. Adapting iOS 8 Aviel Lazar @aviellazar   TLV iOS Developers Meetup
2. Your iOS7 apps •  Work! •  Don’t look deprecated •  And yet…
3. Privacy Permissions Attack
4. Permissions Attack #1 Camera
5. Always vs. While in Use Permissions Attack #2 Location
6. Permissions Attack #3 •  Permission Required – NEW: Local Notifications – Push Notifications •  No Permission Needed: – Silent Push Notifications •  Gotcha: New API! registerUserNotificationSettings:notificationSettings  
7. Best Practices •  Prompt in context •  Specify the purpose •  NEW: Privacy settings link !UIApplicationOpenSettingsURLString" " http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/04/the-right-way-to-ask-users-for-ios-permissions/
8. Push Notifications
9. In App Purchases •  Ask to Buy feature of Family Sharing – New transaction state – Deferred
10. •  Payment is neither purchased or failed – Further update will be received – Indeterminate time •  Meanwhile – Allow the user to use the app – Repurchase allowed Deferred Transaction
11. Keyboard Height Accessory View Displayed Above that
12. Condensing Bars
13. UI Adaptivity •  Canvas Space vs. Orientation •  Regular vs. Compact
14. UI Adaptivity
15. UI Adaptivity •  UITraitsCollection – horizontalSizeClass – verticalSizeClass – displayScale – userInterfaceIdiom
16. UI Adaptivity •  Adaptive View Controller - UITrairtsEnviorment –  UIPresentationController •  Popover •  AlertsView,ActionSheet •  Search •  Custom –  UISplitViewController •  Adaptive Image Assets " [UIImage named: ”Cart” " inBundle: nil " compatibleWithTraitCollection: self.traitCollection]"
17. UI Adaptivity Gotcha •  [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds] – Is now orientation aware!
18. UITableView Dynamic Text Support
19. UITableView Cells •  rowHeight •  Delegate •  Self Sizing Cells (Dynamic Type) – Auto Layout – sizeThatFits: is height for width – table.View.rowHeight =44 (gotcha) – tableView.estimatedRowHeight = 44
20. WKWebView •  It’s the Safari WebView –  Multi Process , Gestures, Fast JavaScript •  Powerful integration for Hybrid Apps: •  Navigation Delegate •  User scripts •  Script Messages –  JSON" –  window.webkit.messageHandlers.<name>.postMessage();"
21. WKWebView
22. Modern Objective - C •  instanacetype –  (instancetype)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame; " •  Properties vs. method notations ! !"
23. iTunes Connect •  iTunes Connect Analytics –  App Page Views –  Website Links –  Campaign Links •  App Bundles –  Only for paid apps –  Complete my bundle
24. App Previews •  30 Seconds •  Shows UI/Functionality •  Easily Capture - OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 •  Can Do: –  Narrations •  Don’t Do: –  Hands –  Prices –  Copyright infringement
25. Hidden Gems & More… •  Localization –  XCode will Import/Export XLIFF files –  Previews (RTL support) •  Instruments –  Network profiling
26. Thank You We’re Hiring! aviel@chegg.com