{"id":9655,"date":"2014-09-18T13:48:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T17:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9655"},"modified":"2014-09-18T13:48:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T17:48:27","slug":"apps-using-ios-8-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/18\/apps-using-ios-8-extensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Apps Using iOS 8 Extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/blog\/introducing-transmit-ios\/\">Panic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/blog\/introducing-transmit-ios\/\">\n<p>Up until that point, iOS apps had very limited reach in terms of access to other apps&rsquo; documents, so we struggled to find an answer to our time-honored litmus test of &ldquo;what would we use this for?&rdquo; Was an app that simply allowed you to transfer files in and out of itself particularly useful?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>By utilizing App Extensions, Transmit could effectively provide standard file transfer protocols for <em>any<\/em> iOS 8 app. Overnight, this idea that made very little sense suddenly made all the sense in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.instapaper.com\/post\/97750859246\">Instapaper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.instapaper.com\/post\/97750859246\"><p>As of today, you can easily save to Instapaper from any application on your iPhone or iPad that supports the iOS system share sheet. No more copying links &amp; opening Instapaper, emailing yourself articles, or installing bookmarklets. Just tap the system share icon, choose Instapaper, and voila! Saved.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panic: Up until that point, iOS apps had very limited reach in terms of access to other apps&rsquo; documents, so we struggled to find an answer to our time-honored litmus test of &ldquo;what would we use this for?&rdquo; Was an app that simply allowed you to transfer files in and out of itself particularly useful? [&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":[905,393,31,904,243],"class_list":["post-9655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-extensions","tag-instapaper","tag-ios","tag-ios-8","tag-transmit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655","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=9655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9656,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions\/9656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}