Expansion of applications, one of the most important innovations in iOS 8

As well as widgets, side of the keyboard and improvements photoappendices, Expansion of applications - one of the key innovations of the new version of mobile operating system from Apple. It displays the communication between applications and user experience to a new level. Let's take a closer look at how the expansion of applications in iOS 8 and it gives us - the users.

In third-party software developers there were ample opportunities for interaction of their programs with the system and other applications. Now the menu Share and Actions available for third-party developers and they can implement support for this feature for your application.

Extensions download not need separately. They are supplied with applications

Share allows you to save content (photos, web pages), not only with services that are implemented by default in iOS. Now any developer can do so that the user can share content via its service directly. Case in point - Pinterest. With the support of Share, you can quickly save images from web pages or images from the film right in the center.

More examples: Pocket and OneNote. With Pocket, you can quickly save articles from the Internet for later reading, and OneNote extension for Safari saves a copy of the web page in the service from Microsoft. The same works with photos.

The photos are very convenient to use the expansion of third-party photo editors. To edit a picture, just click on the "Edit" button on the top left and select the application for further processing.

With this, you can choose which extensions are included. To do this, simply scroll through the list of services to the right side and click on the icon dot. There you can choose to extend any application you need, and enable / disable them. In addition, you can choose the order in which they are displayed. I, for example, it is convenient that the Pocket is at the beginning.

However, to change the order of the extensions, simply hold your finger on the desired expansion and move it to the desired location. Mechanics is the same as with the application icons on the desktop. But the extensions folder can not be created :)

Special mention deserve the Actions. They perform several different role than the Share. Take for example the expansion of 1Password for Safari. With it you can automatically fill out forms login / password by simply clicking on the appropriate button and select the desired data combination.

A Wunderlist, for example, allows you to attach a picture / web page address to a new task. Just click on the "Add to Wunderlist» in the Actions menu and everything will happen by itself.

As you can see, the functionality is limited to the preservation Share content or open a file in the application. Actions offer more advanced features. It's all limited to the wishes of the developers and API from Apple, but it is for iOS 8 is rich in possibilities.

Expansion of third-party applications - is a great innovation iOS 8. It is surprising that it has not been implemented yet, because the need for such an interaction system with applications was a long time. However, better late than never :-).