Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
The Calendar application on iOS 7
New APIs
The new operating system from Apple features numerous new APIs. Some of them
are long overdue and expected, and some are quite surprising. Some of them that are
worth mentioning are as follows:
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Text Kit
: This is an API for laying out text and for fine typography. Text Kit
helps you lay out text in the way you like without any headache.
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Dynamic behaviors for views
: With this, you can now assign physics effects
to your views so they can follow each other, or gravity effects can be applied
to views with ease.
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Multitasking enhancements
: With this, applications have the ability to
fetch data in the background, something that was available only to certain
applications such as Newsstand apps. Now, your game can fetch some amount
of data while the user is not playing it, such as daily missions or news.
