anonymous_abc
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Especially for family owned iPads it's a no brainer.
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WWDC14 Thread of iOS 8 and Mac OSX 10.10
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Especially for family owned iPads it's a no brainer.
ComputerMKII
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Apps can now display their system settings (notifications, background refresh, etc.) in-app, instead of forcing users to go to the Settings app.
My first contact with iOS was with iOS 7 and I thought not having app settings in-app was completely retarded. I'm glad Apple are gonna change this.
I noticed iBooks had settings like this, but haven't seen it in the app itself yet. But i dunno, this seems like a no brainer, and I never understood why they didn't do this before.
I'm not sure that's quite a fair assessment/representation of the holy cows. iOS still does not have a centralized filesystem, the iCloud Drive feature still does not give you total access to your filesystem (At least that is not the impression I got from the Platform State of the Union). It is pretty cool, with extensions iCloud Drive seamlessly integrates file access to Drobox, Skydrive, Box and anyone else who wants to write an extension for the file picker.
I've never heard the replacement keyboards argument, but I'm sure some people claimed it would never happen.
Bluetooth file transfer is simply unlikely as they now have Airdrop and iCloud Drive; I simply don't see them investing time into it, but I could be wrong.
I'm not sure user accounts are a sacred cow as many people would like them. I've never needed them but sure why not.
Non-signed apps; they already kind of do this for enterprise and have for years, I don't see them extending it for code tinkerers any more than they have, not really any money in it; but I'll lose no sleep one way or the other.
Default applications: More like default browser/mail, I'm not sure there are any other apps people really clamor to change the default action of. With extensions it's really not an issue, they can simply register themselves in the share panel and call it good.
Here's a sacred cow I know will never be killed: themes and custom system fonts, never going to happen ever*.
*Unless they get really desperate like the Mac OS 8.6 era, when they were completely lost and had nothing but rotten code.
hirokazu: I've read it helps to log out of iCloud on the Mac and log back in... Haven't tried the Developer Preview yet.
Developer needs to implement the API for it to work. I think an icon is supposed to show up on the lockscreen.
Lana Del Rey
Banned
Apps can now display their system settings (notifications, background refresh, etc.) in-app, instead of forcing users to go to the Settings app.
Can you still see their settings in the main settings app? I preferred seeing a list of what's on and off instead of micro-managing each app.
Is it just me or with the iOS 8 beta my mail does not fetch automatically anymore and also autocorrect is there no matter what, it's off in the keyboard settings but yet it still keeps correcting?
Also I text messages don't go into notification Center when the phone is in do not disturb
Also I text messages don't go into notification Center when the phone is in do not disturb
Keyword: beta.
I know that, but I wanted to know if there was a way to fix it temporarily
I'm sure he understands its a beta but wonders if anyone else has the issue and if there are any work arounds. But being rude is the next best thing.
jts
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They have a solution for that. Mo members, mo iPads.
iOS 8 Beta 2.
Pretty much.
But I do think multiuser accounts are coming at some point, since families share iDevices plenty as is and the educational market is going to really demand it at some point. I'd say iOS 9 is likely. Not going to fault them for not including it here though; considering how much stuff they did under the hood while resources were being transferred to Yosemite, I'm very pleased with how much new stuff we got.Just watched the WWDC video on the new features of Cocoa Touch, big on 'adaptability' and 'size classes'. Presenter said "It's not about device type but the canvas size you have", "You may end up in a situation where showing something, displaying your view on an iPad where the size of that canvas is actually comparable to that of being on an iPhone".
Not only is this going to be handy for larger iPhones, but it sounds like it will be very useful for iPad 'multitasking'.
Not likely, this is a design feature, applications that take addresses and searches as a primary feature are to have the field be centered in the window title bar.
Not only is this going to be handy for larger iPhones, but it sounds like it will be very useful for iPad 'multitasking'.
mindwipe said:
Not likely, this is a design feature, applications that take addresses and searches as a primary feature are to have the field be centered in the window title bar.
You probably mean they don't push automatically.
I had the same problem. Go into "Setting > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data" and turn off Push. Then, delete your e-mail account from the iPhone. Turn it off and on or hard reset, then add the account again.
That should fix push. It did for me.
same here
infiniteloop
Member
can't you just do cmd+z ?
Man, I don't want to abandon Dropbox, but it almost seems like a given with how well-integrated a native solution will be compared to a third-party.
I love Dropbox, and I've been an early adopter from day 1 evangelizing for the service since 2006. That said, they've been way to stubborn on sticking to their pricing model in contrast to competitors (Box, Google, Microsoft), and part of it is that they're having a hard time deciding if they're going to be consumer-side (not exactly lucrative) and enterprise-side (not exactly successful there so far).
As of now, they clearly have more cachet with consumers, and they've invested a lot of money into the design team, which seems odd when they're a service offering with minimal app interaction.
I love Dropbox, and I've been an early adopter from day 1 evangelizing for the service since 2006. That said, they've been way to stubborn on sticking to their pricing model in contrast to competitors (Box, Google, Microsoft), and part of it is that they're having a hard time deciding if they're going to be consumer-side (not exactly lucrative) and enterprise-side (not exactly successful there so far).
As of now, they clearly have more cachet with consumers, and they've invested a lot of money into the design team, which seems odd when they're a service offering with minimal app interaction.
Valkyr Junkie
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They stated Windows support during the announcement.
You don't have to. What I gathered from some of the developer videos is that the iCloud Drive file browser also adds support for 3rd party services using extensions in both iOS and Yosemite.
Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
With Swift, do you think Apple is driving to the point where apps, not just documents, could be 'handed-off' between devices in proximity? I'm talking about universal apps that include Macs, as well as iDevices in the bundle.
Yup.Apple said:
No, at least not with Swift, they are likely to accomplish this with other means. Extension bundles are executable code that live outside of your application code. They work on both Yosemite and iOS 8 (API compatible at least). They are packed into an app bundle.
Plus, iOS 8 just added support for having frameworks in app bundles. This will go a long way to being able to have multiple executables in one app bundle with different interfaces yet sharing the same logic - this is essentially what widgets, share extensions, service extensions etc are.
I think another avenue they could use is the new adaptability. It's code that displays in different ways depending on the device. Currently it is just for iOS, but I can see OS X being thrown in eventually.
Yay!
In that case, with the right pricing I'm there. I'm not a heavy user anyway - I think I have around 2.5GB in Dropbox.
Apple already announced most of the pricing plans.Yay!
In that case, with the right pricing I'm there. I'm not a heavy user anyway - I think I have around 2.5GB in Dropbox.
You get 5 GB for free. $1 a month ($12 a year) gets you 20 GB. $4 a month ($48 a year) gets you 200 GB.
Apple announced the tiers include options up to 1 TB, but did not specify a price point beyond the 200-GB plan.
SuicideUZI
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That looks more like Pages on iCloud.com
It's from a section of the iCloud Drive preview on Apple in which it talks about editing and sharing between devices. If it's accessible from a webpage, as it is on the PC, then I imagine there will be HTTP links.
Mitochondrion
Member
Someone tell me what exactly is Swift? Objective-C is used for both iOS and OS X. So can Swift. What is so special about Swift? Why should I use Swift instead of Objective-C?
It's dramatically simpler and easier to learn/read/write while still being very powerful and performant.
Object-C is a C-based programming language from from the 80s that has not seen much change. Most modern devs like cleaner and more expressive languages that have evolved since then and that more reasonably deal with common tasks without a lot of legacy baggage.
The third-party keyboard will have to incorporate it.
I imagine once people start making them specifically for iOS devices, they'll include the feature.
Judging by this beta photo of the Flesky keyboard running in iOS 8 there may not be anything to incorporate. Looks like 3rd party keyboards replace everything below the input line (which includes the voice record and camera buttons).
Adam Scott Aukerman
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If they're not going to allow third party keyboards to manipulate the cursor, they bloody well better be doing something to improve iOS's native control of it. It's so bloody fiddly to to place it back at a particular point in a sentence - something that was incredibly easy on the HTC Desire I had two years before I got a 4S.
They replace everything below the input line and can't touch anything above the input line:
Voice input would have to come from another source (maybe Google?) and the UI would be hard under Apple's restrictions.
Oh, well, that sucks.
Yeah, sorry, what I actually meant to ask was if Safari finally had proper behavior when it comes to reopening closed tabs. Every other browser uses cmd+shift+T, and it can be used consecutively. In Safari, you can only reopen one tab. Besides, actually it doesn't necessarily reopen a tab. It's just undo, so if you just entered some text on a website (or if you did any other undoable action), cmd+Z will remove it instead.