Developing an iOS 7 Edge Video Series
The Developing An iOS7 Edge video series introduces key new features of iOS7 and show you how to get started with simple examples. Topics include transitioning to iOS7, multitasking, custom view transitions, mapping improvements, and more. Quickly get your app up to date and use the new features of iOS7 to give your app the best possible user experience.
Chapter 1: Transition to iOS 7
iOS7 is a major update of iOS focused around the concepts of clarity, depth, and deference. This screencast shows examples of these new design principles and how Apple has updated its own apps. We cover layout changes introduced in iOS7 and provide a transition checklist for getting your app up to date.
Chapter 2: UIKit Dynamics
UIKit Dynamics helps you create animations with simulated physics, for a more natural touch experience. This screencast goes through the basic concepts in UIKit Dynamics and develops some examples such as dropping a label with gravity and collisions.
Chapter 3: View Controller
Tired of the simple “slide in, slide out” transitions between your views? In this screencast we go through the steps necessary to create a custom transition between views and make a rotation animation to replace the simple “slide in” transition.
Chapter 4: Multitasking
In this screencast we talk about the important changes to how your app runs in the background in iOS7. We show how you can do a “background fetch” to poll for new data, even when your app isn’t running. Finally, we introduce the background transfer service, which allows large file transfers to take place outside of your app.
Chapter 5: AirDrop
AirDrop allows your app to send and receive files between nearby iOS devices, even if they don’t have an Internet connection. This screencast shows how to enable AirDrop on your iOS devices and we show how to implement sending a file to a nearby device.
Chapter 6: Mapping Improvements
This screencast shows how to use the new natural language search for places in the world. We work through an example of how to search for “the eiffel tower” and then show how to control the 3D perspective of the map and create an animated zoom-in effect.