With HealthKit and HomeKit Apple aims to revolutionize how people interact with their house and health industry.
Health and fitness apps,
sensors, in brief connected and smart objects, progressively flood our lives,
with the goal to improve living conditions and generate new economic
opportunities.
Our interest for the WWDC 2014
at San Francisco, leads us to focus on the new iOS 8 SDK intended for
developers.
Billed as the biggest
developer release ever with more than 4,000, the new iOS 8 SDK aims to allow
developers to customize inter alia, the user experience with major
extensibility features.
Among the great frameworks,
HealthKit and HomeKit, Metal (new graphics technology), and Swift, a new
programming language, have caught our eyes.
HealthKit APIs provides the ability for health and fitness apps to
communicate with
each other.
Conneectikpeople.co soon Retinknow®, observes that, each app can use
specific information from other apps, with the goal to provide a more
comprehensive way to manage your health and fitness.
When it comes to HomeKit, it lets home accessories connect to better manage
your home. Metal, a new graphics technology enables game providers to bring console
3D games to mobile devices.
Swift is a new programming language for iOS and OS X® aims to help
developers write safer and more reliable code by eliminating entire categories
of common programming errors, and coexists with Objective-C® code, so
developers can easily integrate Swift into their existing apps.
The iOS 8 beta software and SDK are available immediately for iOS Developer
Program members at developer.apple.com. This fall iOS 8 will be available as a free software update for iPhone
4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPod touch 5th generation, iPad 2, iPad
with Retina® display, iPad Air™, iPad mini™ and iPad mini with Retina display.