{"id":10219,"date":"2014-12-04T18:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T23:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10219"},"modified":"2014-12-04T18:58:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T23:58:49","slug":"apple-continues-war-on-notification-center-widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/04\/apple-continues-war-on-notification-center-widgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Continues War on Notification Center Widgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2014\/12\/02\/apple-drafts-widget-removal\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2014\/12\/02\/apple-drafts-widget-removal\/\"><p>Apple is continuing to sort out its nebulous policies on Notification Center widgets, and has today told <em><a href=\"http:\/\/agiletortoise.com\/drafts\/\">Drafts<\/a><\/em> developer Agile Tortoise that the app&rsquo;s widget is not allowed to be used to create drafts or open the <em>Drafts<\/em> app.<\/p><p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agiletortoise\/status\/539887084128174082\">tweet<\/a>, developer Greg Pierce says that he&rsquo;s been asked to re-submit <em>Drafts<\/em> without functionality for opening the app or creating a new note, which essentially removes all of the features of the Notification Center Widget.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Pierce, however, says that he&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agiletortoise\/status\/539888106095521795\">been told<\/a> that the Today view in the Notification Center is &ldquo;for information presentation only,&rdquo; a point of view that would rule out nearly all Notification Center apps. As Pierce <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agiletortoise\/status\/539887258380541954\">points out<\/a>, there are several similar apps that offer the exact same widget function as <em>Drafts<\/em>, such as <em>Evernote<\/em>, which also allows users to launch the <em>Evernote<\/em> app and new notes and other content from within the Notification Center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/apple-tells-drafts-to-remove-note-creation-feature\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/apple-tells-drafts-to-remove-note-creation-feature\/\"><p>It&rsquo;s not like Agile Tortoise took a big risk by putting a shortcut button in Notification Centre; there were plenty of apps already in the Store that had similar functionality before Drafts 4 was released. Yet it&rsquo;s the one that&rsquo;s being restricted over <em>two months<\/em> after its release for a rule that doesn&rsquo;t even exist.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Apple is continuing to sort out its nebulous policies on Notification Center widgets, and has today told Drafts developer Agile Tortoise that the app&rsquo;s widget is not allowed to be used to create drafts or open the Drafts app.In a tweet, developer Greg Pierce says that he&rsquo;s been asked to re-submit Drafts without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,130,427,31,26,111],"class_list":["post-10219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-drafts","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-notificationcenter"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10220,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions\/10220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}