{"id":7939,"date":"2013-09-23T19:25:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T23:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7939"},"modified":"2017-08-01T14:49:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T18:49:47","slug":"new-apis-in-ios-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/23\/new-apis-in-ios-7\/","title":{"rendered":"New APIs in iOS 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nshipster.com\/ios7\/\">Mattt Thompson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/nshipster.com\/ios7\/\"><p>For the longest time, this boringly essential function [Base64] was completely MIA, leaving thousands of developers to copy-paste random code snippets from forum threads. It was an omission as conspicuous and annoying as JSON pre-iOS 5.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots of great stuff, including Base64, <code>NSURLComponents<\/code> (<a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/29\/url-encoding\/\">sorely needed<\/a>), blink and smile detection, barcode scanning, and access to Safari&rsquo;s Reading List. I&rsquo;ll be interested to see whether <code>NSProgress<\/code> takes off.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattt Thompson: For the longest time, this boringly essential function [Base64] was completely MIA, leaving thousands of developers to copy-paste random code snippets from forum threads. It was an omission as conspicuous and annoying as JSON pre-iOS 5. Lots of great stuff, including Base64, NSURLComponents (sorely needed), blink and smile detection, barcode scanning, and access [&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":[4],"tags":[322,490,31,469,1549,54,71,489],"class_list":["post-7939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-base64","tag-encoding","tag-ios","tag-ios7","tag-nsprogress","tag-objective-c","tag-programming","tag-url"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939","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=7939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18517,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939\/revisions\/18517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}