Nine iOS 11 APIs That Will Impact Your App Business

This year in Apple world we saw a new device – iPhone X, with a revolutionary new design. And, just a few months before the iPhone X, the OS giant launched their latest operating system update iOS 11. The new operating system came with its own set of features to the power of 11. Those who updated their devices were now seeing a new files app that was bringing all the files together in one place, a drag and drop feature, a powerful new dock, and much more.

Nine iOS 11 APIs

Machine learning

The ones that understand human interaction with the device and grows with it. To make this possible, Apple has come up with a framework that lets you add machine learning features in your app, such as face tracking, face detection, text detection, landmark detection, and barcode identification, along with a myriad of other features.

Augmented reality

With the help of ARKit, you will be able to project the cabinet in the place where you wish to install it and then get an understanding of how the cabinet would look like after you have bought it.

Drag and drop

With this framework in iOS, the users can now drag items from one screen location to the other one with the help of continued gestures. The drag-and-drop even can happen both in one app, or can be transferred from one app to another.

Image analysis with vision API

Now you can easily detect the facial landmarks, like the user’s nose and eyes with this API. Earlier, the iOS developers were expected to be skilled in Computer Vision to finish this task and make something this complicated, but with this API, now every engineer can do the task.

Seamless NFC

NFC is the Eureka moment for the retailers, across the world. With the coming of NFC support as an API, you can now add a smart tag to products you wish to sell.

Device tracking

It lets developers keep track of former users’ devices so that, if they ever come back to the app, the developers will know they’ve been there before. Along with tracking the users’ presence on a device, the API will enable companies to keep track on who used their promotional code and who is doing something fraudulent.

Unwanted message filtration

Using this API, you will now be able to give an in-built option to the users to not receive messages from someone they don’t know. Working in the favor of companies whose business model is of user identification or Caller ID.

Animation

Apple wanted to give its developers a built in, graphics rendering infrastructure to enable integration with their hardware. Used for adding animation to iOS apps and games, the SpriteKit API comes in handy at a time when the gaming and animation industry is on a high.

Call out point of interest

While MapKit API has been in Apple’s kitty since a very long time, the framework recently an addition in its long list of features. If your app offers some transit directions, you can make your directions available in Maps.

Conclusion

There are other APIs like SiriKit, AirPlay 2, MusicKit, Files, and Depth Map API which have made making iOS App not just easy and efficient but also of superior quality, giving developers a greater scope to do more with their apps.