{"id":9437,"date":"2014-09-02T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9437"},"modified":"2014-09-02T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T20:34:10","slug":"textexpander-snippet-expansion-comes-to-every-app-in-ios-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/02\/textexpander-snippet-expansion-comes-to-every-app-in-ios-8\/","title":{"rendered":"TextExpander Snippet Expansion Comes to Every App in iOS 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smilesoftware.com\/blog\/entry\/textexpander-snippet-expansion-comes-to-every-app-in-ios-8\">Smile Software<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macstories.net\/news\/smile-announces-textexpander-custom-keyboard-for-ios-8-public-beta-program\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/smilesoftware.com\/blog\/entry\/textexpander-snippet-expansion-comes-to-every-app-in-ios-8\"><p>Prior to iOS 8, only apps which implemented the TextExpander touch SDK could expand snippets directly.<\/p>\n<p>Under iOS 8, the TextExpander keyboard will work system-wide and reliably share snippets with the TextExpander app. The keyboard will also include full VoiceOver accessibility support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2014-09-02): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertypages.com\/clarktech\/?p=412\">Clark Goble<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.libertypages.com\/clarktech\/?p=412\"><p>The keyboard I&rsquo;m most looking forward to myself is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macstories.net\/news\/smile-announces-textexpander-custom-keyboard-for-ios-8-public-beta-program\/\">SwipeSelection<\/a>. Apple even changed the keyboard API to make keyboards like SwipeSelection possible in iOS 8. If TextExpander including sensical cursor movement in their keyboard ala SwipeSelection I&rsquo;d probably get it immediately. Although it should be a selectable option.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s possible now, but it seems like a custom keyboard is not really the best way to integrate TextExpander into iOS. Why should I have to use their keyboard user interface (and forego other custom keyboards) just to get their code to see what I&rsquo;m typing?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smile Software (via Federico Viticci): Prior to iOS 8, only apps which implemented the TextExpander touch SDK could expand snippets directly. Under iOS 8, the TextExpander keyboard will work system-wide and reliably share snippets with the TextExpander app. The keyboard will also include full VoiceOver accessibility support. Update (2014-09-02): Clark Goble: The keyboard I&rsquo;m most [&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":[31,904,26,423,769,468],"class_list":["post-9437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-8","tag-iosapp","tag-keyboard","tag-swipeselection","tag-textexpander"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437","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=9437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9444,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437\/revisions\/9444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}