{"id":12259,"date":"2015-09-12T15:54:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T19:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12259"},"modified":"2019-01-25T15:59:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T20:59:53","slug":"now-allowed-to-launch-apps-from-today-widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/12\/now-allowed-to-launch-apps-from-today-widgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Allowed to Launch Apps From Today Widgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/12\/19\/quickpick-and-launch-center-a-first-look-at-two-similar-ios-lau\/\">Steven Sande<\/a> (in 2011):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/12\/19\/quickpick-and-launch-center-a-first-look-at-two-similar-ios-lau\/\"><p>Although the Launch Center app works identically to Quickpick, David Barnard of App Cubby just notified me that the app was turned down. The note he received: &ldquo;We noticed that your app included inappropriate use of Notification Center, which does not comply with the iOS Human Interface Guidelines.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drbarnard\/status\/642424528711192576\">David<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drbarnard\/status\/642428215433166848\">Barnard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drbarnard\/status\/642424528711192576\"><p>I&rsquo;m thrilled to announce @LaunchCenterPro 2.5 will be released Tuesday with a widget and support for over 100k apps!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drbarnard\/status\/642428215433166848\"><p>After first being rejected for using Notification Center to launch apps in 2011, it&rsquo;s hard to express how happy this release makes me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2015-09-16): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2015\/09\/15\/launch-center-pro-widget\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2015\/09\/15\/launch-center-pro-widget\/\"><p>With the new Notification Center widget, it&rsquo;s possible to add twelve of your favorite Launch Center Pro actions for quick and easy access. You can do things like call a specific person, add an event to a favorite calendar app, get directions home, scan a QR code, send a group text, and more directly from the Notification Center.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Sande (in 2011): Although the Launch Center app works identically to Quickpick, David Barnard of App Cubby just notified me that the app was turned down. The note he received: &ldquo;We noticed that your app included inappropriate use of Notification Center, which does not comply with the iOS Human Interface Guidelines.&rdquo; David Barnard: I&rsquo;m [&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":"2019-01-25T20:59:55Z","apple_news_api_id":"90b0d910-aa8a-4452-9cac-46795bacadae","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-01-25T20:59:57Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AkLDZEKqKRFKcrEZ5W6ytrg","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":[91,130,31,1137,26,874,111],"class_list":["post-12259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-iosapp","tag-launch-center-pro","tag-notificationcenter"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259","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=12259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24078,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions\/24078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}