One by one, we decided to
help you discover the main new features of iOS 8 with a focus on
the big news and changes.
Long awaited by many of us
widgetswill finally appear on iOS just like
south OS X.
Obviously, it is the mobile version that we are mainly going to
interest here.
Where will we find them? How will this work?
Here are so many questions for which you will find the answers at
reading this article:
Where to find them
In iOS 8, the notification center has been revised and now only has 2
tabs (today and notifications), but we will have the opportunity to come back to them
later. What matters to us today are the widgets that will come
nestle there.
It is in the 'today' tab that Apple has chosen to display the
tabs. They will therefore be very easily accessible with a simple swipe of
top to bottom of the screen.
How does it work?
For widgets, there will be no store like for applications.
It is in reality the applications themselves which will provide the widgets
right into the notification center.
Let me explain. It's actually on the developers' side that this is happening.
Indeed, they will now have the possibility of offering a widget with
their application. By downloading the app to the iPhone, the user
also downloads the widget and will then have the choice to activate it or
non.
To activate a widget, you must go to the notification center.
give back. At the very bottom, an 'Edit' button has appeared. Just below,
the system indicates how many widgets are currently available.
By pressing the button, the user is immediately presented with a
new screen which allows it to activate or not this or that available widget. He
It is also possible to choose where the widget will be placed in relation to the
other sections and widgets.
Once finished, the widget is put in place and immediately distills its
informations.
Widgets: what for?
What is particularly interesting about widgets is the
multiplicity of possibilities. Thanks to them, the notification center which was
frozen will become a real place of information entirely
customizable.
We can easily imagine that developers will literally rush into these
widgets to feed us with information. We then think of results of
sport as the example was given yesterday, but also on the TV program, on the news
of his favorite site and why not to crazier uses allowing
to control connected bulbs, to consult data in the blink of an eye
of your favorite bracelet, follow your auctions on eBay…
You probably understood, with these widgets, they are new
possibilities that open up to developers, but also to users.
I can't wait to discover them, can't you?
Other “Focus iOS 8” articles will arrive in the hours and days at
come !
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