It’s probably going to be a while off, but we are thinking of things we would like to see in iOS 6 that would be cool or make our lives a little easier as app developers.
Download Manager
We see this working as an iOS level background service. Your app gives the manager a URL, asks that it is downloaded and the manager takes care of this and sends a local notification to the app when the download is complete. The user will be able to set preferences for the download manager in ‘Settings’ to set whether they want to download via 3G (disabled by default), whether they want multiple downloads to take place at once, whether to send a notification in completion and so on.
Apple TV Apps
This would be a game changer. Being apple to run apps on the TV would make the Apple TV an absolute must-have device.
UI Themes
Having a style sheet type scenario for apps would cut down on a bunch of boilerplate code to set colours and text styles. It would also mean that white label apps would be quicker to turn around for subsequent releases.
So, just three for now but what do you think?
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