Chapter    11

Advanced iOS 8 Features

iOS 8 added many advanced features to the ecosystem. This chapter will cover some of those and present Swift-based recipes you can integrate into your own applications.

The topics covered in this chapter are

  • Creating a Today Extension
  • Creating a Custom Keyboard Extension
  • Creating a Sharing Extension
  • Creating an Action Extension
  • Creating a WatchKit Application

11-1. Creating a Today Extension

Problem

You would like to make information available to users to display in the Today screen.

Solution

Create a Today extension.

How It Works

The Today extension is added to your application and allows a user to choose to display information from your application on the Today screen. Currently, Today extensions can ...

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