Apple releases tailored for Mac OS X Lion applications
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
operating system Mac OS X Lion available to users during the month, and it is not surprising that Apple is already beginning to gradually promote the Mac App Store applications that are specifically adapted to the new OS. On banners depicting the logos of some programs even stand special marks «Enhanced for Lion». This means that these products have already been redesigned to support the unique features of the "Lion", such as Versions, Full-screen or multi-touch weight among others.
Banners are displayed on the Mac App Store home page - both in the top section (for example, applications, Screenflow and Touchgrind), and below, as a promotional logos (Fantastical application, swackett x and Scrivener). In the case of Fantastical, e.g., navigation in the calendar view mode is realized only using unique gestures working only Lion.
Incidentally, this is not the first time Apple specifically focuses on various applications that support some new features of the updated operating system. So it was in a situation with the creation of a separate category of applications that are adapted to support features
AirPlay in iOS 4.2. At this point in the Mac App Store is no separate category of «Enhanced for Lion» programs, but such innovation will not be surprising. After all, more and more people are set in their Mac «Lion", and developers updating or preparing new tools specifically for this OS.By the way, the developers have a place to turn in that direction. Because in Mac OS X Lion over 250 original features and 3000 new APIs for developers itself. Among them - and full-screen mode, and support for Versions (mixture of Time Machine and Save As), and notification of application upgrades and purchases within the program, and many others. In addition, the fall is expected to be integrated with iCloud software and data storage and documents in the cloud, developers should take into account this.
Since November, Apple will necessarily require developers to make their applications for "Lion" maintained sandbox-technology - the so-called "sandbox" which limits the available program resources of some of the protected system environment. (This is also one of the new features of Mac OS X Lion.) Now, singling out those applications that are already tailored to Lion, the company as it brings developers the need to actively adapt them products to the new OS.
[MacStories]