Ios App Extension Tutorial

A tutorial on ios 8 app extensions.

Ios app extension tutorial. Figure 3 1xcode supplies several app extension templates you can use. After an app is created go to file new target. App extensions app extensions let you extend custom functionality and content beyond your app and make it available to users while they re interacting with other apps or the system.

Apple are strict on this and so you cannot just have a skeleton container app whose sole purpose is to distribute your extension. Widget is an extension that displays a small amount of real time useful information or app specific functionality. Next we ll add an extension target to the project.

In the pane on the right side of the dialog xcode displays the templates you can choose. Each time you build and run the app in this tutorial you ll then return to the home screen and open the files app to access your extension. Few had tried before take a look at this but it was apple with the first iphone who defined how a smartphone and a mobile os should look.

Marija ba informatics and software engineering has developed many ios projects in the last 7 years including an augmented reality app. The app presents a basic view that educates the user about how to enable the file provider extension since you won t actually be doing anything within the app itself. It was originally released in 2007 for the iphone ipod touch and apple tv.

Click on the project in the project navigator then select editor add target ios application extension custom keyboard and click next. This tutorial is created for those using the objective c language to develop iphone and ipad apps on ios. In the sidebar on the left side of the new target dialog choose application extension for ios or os x.

Then select share extension from application extension. Safari app extensions use a combination of javascript css and native code written in objective c or swift. Because you build safari app extensions on the standard app extension model you get many native app benefits.