{"id":9177,"date":"2014-01-15T11:33:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=9177"},"modified":"2014-01-15T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:33:37","slug":"ready-for-the-ios-6-app-store-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/ready-for-the-ios-6-app-store-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready for the iOS 6 App Store Retirement?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tApple recently announced that in order to publish new apps and updates to the app store after January 31st, you must build against the iOS 7 SDK<\/em>. This is no problem for Xamarin.iOS<\/em> developers, since we’ve been shipping support for iOS 7 since day one<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Here are 7 good reasons to take the opportunity to fully iOS7-ify your app while you’re at it:<\/p>\n

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  1. Don’t let your app look stale. iOS 7 apps have a distinct look and feel and leverage a full-screen experience that focuses on content over chrome. Take a look at the iOS 7 User Interface Overview<\/a> and iOS 6 & 7 Compatibility Tips<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. There are an abundance of great new APIs, ranging from new mapping APIs<\/a> to speech synthesis<\/a>, motion effects<\/a>, and multi-tasking<\/a>, just to name just a few. See the iOS 7 API Tour <\/a> for more information.<\/li>\n
  3. iOS 7 apps can connect to other nearby devices via the Multipeer Connectivity<\/a> framework, as shown in the post Send the Monkey a Message with Multipeer Connectivity<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. Text capabilities are dramatically enhanced. The post Create Rich Text Features in iOS with Text Kit<\/a> talks about this in greater detail.<\/li>\n
  5. iBeacons<\/a> bring device location support over Bluetooth Low Energy, enabling exciting new scenarios, such as indoor location a reality. See Apple Stores use iBeacons (and so can you!)<\/a> for an example of using iBeacons in a commercial setting.<\/li>\n
  6. Core Image<\/a> has many great new filters including the ability to generate QR codes.<\/li>\n
  7. Animation has made dramatic strides in iOS 7 both with new view and controller APIs, Sprite Kit<\/a> for games, and the built-in physics engine of UIKitDynamics<\/a>. The article Introduction to iOS 7<\/a> talks about many of the new animation features.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Discuss this blog post in the Xamarin Forums<\/em><\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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    Apple recently announced that in order to publish new apps and updates to the app store after January 31st, you must build against the iOS 7 SDK. This is no problem for Xamarin.iOS developers, since we’ve been shipping support for iOS 7 since day one. Here are 7 good reasons to take the opportunity to […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}