iOS 4.0: The Other Stuff
So I'm looking at the slide from the keynote, the one with the overstuffed "SDK" box surrounded by text labels of "other stuff" that didn't necessarily make it into the presentation.
So this thread is to discuss a few of those: what we think they might be, how they might work, etc.
Two that jump out at me are "Quick Look" and "Image I/O."
Quick Look is obviously some variant on desktop finder behavior, but how might that be implemented on a phone? I'm guessing it's mostly for email attachments, and give you a full screen look at the document without having to launch its associated app?
And I'm not even sure what "Image I/O" might be-- maybe someone with some insight into the SDK might chime in here?
Oh, and there's a third: "Package based documents." Any thoughts on that? I also see that there's full access to still and video camera data, which is self explanatory but should lead to some interesting new apps.
So this thread is to discuss a few of those: what we think they might be, how they might work, etc.
Two that jump out at me are "Quick Look" and "Image I/O."
Quick Look is obviously some variant on desktop finder behavior, but how might that be implemented on a phone? I'm guessing it's mostly for email attachments, and give you a full screen look at the document without having to launch its associated app?
And I'm not even sure what "Image I/O" might be-- maybe someone with some insight into the SDK might chime in here?
Oh, and there's a third: "Package based documents." Any thoughts on that? I also see that there's full access to still and video camera data, which is self explanatory but should lead to some interesting new apps.
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And I'm not even sure what "Image I/O" might be-- maybe someone with some insight into the SDK might chime in here?
Good question. Maybe something to do with printing. Perhaps printing draws to PDF then to a generic printer driver over WIFI or Bluetooth.
- Spell check (as reported separately on many blogs) looks good
- Choose Image Size in Mail - useful
- 5x digital zoom - surprises me - digital zoom is just so un-Apple to me.
- Create playlists - long overdue!
- Places - can't wait for this.
- Nike+ work-outs uploaded - I certainly recently ranted on apple.com/feedback at how the iPhone app needed to be clagged to USB to sync to the Nike+ site and this seems to be getting fixed.
- CardDAV???
- Birthday Calendar - don't understand how this differs from the iCal one which syncs anyhow???
- iPod Out????
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=892839
All in all, there are lots of nice little additions that I was fine without, but happy to be getting, for free!
It appears in this nice short vid:
http://9to5mac.com/iPhone-4-video-walkthrough
which includes a bunch of stuff, a couple of which I mentioned, and which I haven't seen discussed yet
Date data detectors are cool - like what the Mac has when someone emails a date, you can turn it into an event in the calendar.
Accelerate framework will be good for drawing apps that need transforms.
Block-based animation probably for sprite-based games, maybe they have something for motion estimation in video capture.
Image I/O is just being able to open and save image types without having to include libraries yourself. So a 3rd party program can open RAW and save a JPEG or something.
Actually, I was referencing this slide here:
which includes a bunch of stuff, a couple of which I mentioned, and which I haven't seen discussed yet
Sorry... The stuff I linked to was a bit different. Was (and still am) hoping, however, that they might get around to some of the stuff you are wondering about.
Actually, I was referencing this slide here:
which includes a bunch of stuff, a couple of which I mentioned, and which I haven't seen discussed yet
I have to say I don't understand a lot of this... But guess for a developer it opens up the possibilities.
I wonder how QuickLook will work, unless it's something like a single tap on image or file.
I think notifications (specifically aggregation of notifications) is what I'm really hoping will feature.