A Passionate Technologists' Journal

Should have posted this a long back, but just got the perfect time to get it done.  I got a chance to develop an e-Commerce mobile application targeted at iOS8. We decided to develop it using the latest technologies, so we chose to use the SWIFT language released by Apple in Conjunction with iOS8. SWIFT is a safe, modern and powerful Language, it has a lot of interesting, time saving features, which could allow us(Developers) to focus/work more on the Application’s logic rather than the coding itself. Swift’s shorthand syntax makes us to write less code when compared to Objective C. It was a great decision to remove the semicolons(At the end of each statement), Braces (In Control Flows), Subscripts, Enumerations, etc… Some of the very interesting stuff includes: Optionals Tuples Closures Access Control Going briefly into those interesting stuff, that mostly adds value to our code/time. Optionals: The most interesting and powerful f...

Apple announced iOS8 & OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) in WWDC 2014 today: Happy that i watched WWDC 2014 Live. Here is the summary of features added into iOS8: QuickType - Auto suggests or predicts the keywords from the types sentence, just like the app “SwiftKey”. Interactive Notifications - You can make actions within the notification centre without opening up the app. For Ex: tap on message to reply w/o going into Messages app. iMessage Groups, Self destructing Audio & Video, Location Sharing. Extensibility - Allows to interact between apps. TouchID API - Developers can use the Touch ID for authentication. HealthKit - Tracks Health HomeKit - Automate you Home devices CloudKit - Store app’s database schema SpriteKit - SceneKit & lots of other additions Siri Features: * “Hey Siri” wakes up the digital assistant, Hence hereafter No need to Long tap the Home button or take the phone near to your ear to talk to Siri. *...