What's news in Cocoa Touch

iOS 6

• Autolayout

iOS 7

• dynamic text

iOS 8

• Adaptivitiy
  • Size Classes
  • View controllers
  • View controller presentations
  • Search Result
  • Action Sheets

iOS 9

• Multitasking
• Picture in Picture
  • Related Session:
    • Getting Started with Multitasking on iPad in iOS 9
    • Multitasking essentials for media-based apps on iPad in iOS 9
    • Optimizing Your app for multitasking in iPad iOS 9

Layout Guides UILayoutGuide

• UIView
  • MarginLayoutGuide( available Since iOS 8)
  • ReadableContentMargin
    • Make sure the text is readable regardless of users' text size and available spaces

UIStackView

• adjustable Spacing and alignment
• nested

Shortcut Bar(above the keyboard)

• customized via UITextInput protocal
  • func inputAssistantItem
    • leadingButtonGroup
    • trailingButtonGroup

Storyboard

• link one storyboard to another
• Unwind segue

Right to left Support

• UIViewController
  • var semanticContentAttribute (override to return value for custom layout)
• UIView
  • var semanticContentAttribute (override to return value for custom layout)

• UIImage

  • func imageFlippedForRightToLeft
  • var isFlippedForRightToLeft
  • Related Session :
    • New UIKit Support for international users interfaces

  Accessibility

  • Change to AVSpeechSynthesis
  • Related Session :
    • iOS Accessbility

Text Editing Gesture( text selection gesture on software keyboard with two fingers dragging)

• nothing to do to support
• make sure custom text view gesture is not conflicting

Keyboard commands(Hold command key on hard keyboard)

set discoveryTitles and UIKit will figure out

Touch Events

• reduce the latency the touch received.
• Touch predictions (WOW)
• Advanced Touch input on iOS 9

UIDynamic

• Support Ellipse and Path Collision Bounds(Only rectangle before)
• UIFieldBehavoir
  • Linear and Radial Gravity
  • Spring
  • Drag and Velocity
  • Noise And turbulance
  • Electric and Magnetic
  • Or Custom field Evaluator to create own field.
• new Attachment type
  • Fixed
  • Sliding
  • Pin
  • Limit

Visual Effect

• Animated Blur radius

API optimizations for Swift

• Nullability
• Lightweight generics ( subViews are not id instead of UIVew Type)
• Related Session :
  • Whats new in Swift

Notifications

• var behavior
• var action parameters

Safari

• SFSafariViewController

New extension point

• Packet Tunnel Provider
• App Proxy Provider
• Filter Control/data provider

Safari Extension point

• Shared Links
  • Should appear shared Link
• Content Blocking

SpotLight Extension point

• Index of application data
• Index maintenance
• Related Session :
  • Introducing App Search

Audio Unit Extension point

• Related Session :
  • Audio unit extension

Contacts

• New Swift and Objective- API
• Related Session :
  • Introducing the contacts framework for iOS & OS X

Wallet and PassKit

Core Location

• updates to background location tracking
• CLLocationManager
  • request one-time location
  • func requestLocation

MapKit

• access 3DPlayer flyer View
• show traffic
• show compress and scale
• custom callouts(?)

Health Kit

• Direct support in WatchOS2

ResearchKit

HomeKit

CloudKit

• Related Session :
  • Whats new in CloudKit
  • CloudKit tips and tricks

UIDocument

• no longer a copy of the document

On Demand Resource

• Hosted on App Store
• Dynamc load content
• Base on history
  • user behaviors

App Slicing

• Automatically tailors the applications
• New NSDataAsset class

Game centre

ReplayKit

GamePlayKit

• Related Session :
  • Introducing GamePlayKit

WatchOS2

• Related Session :
  • Introduction WatchKit for Watch OS 2