2015-08-11 / Technology research
Search APIs
Prior to iOS9, you could only use spotlight to find apps by their name. With the announcement of the new iOS9 Search APIs, Apple now allow developers to choose what content from their apps they want to index, as well as how the results appear in spotlight, and what happens when the user taps one of the results. The 3 APIs NSUserActivity The NSUserActivity API was introduced in iOS8 for Handoff, but iOS9 now allows activities to be searchable. You can now provide metadata to these activities, meaning that spotlight can index them. This acts as a history stack, similar to when you are browsing th[…]
by Chris Grant