What iOS Can Learn from Unix

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Post by ananddass » Mon, Sep 09, 2013, 4:09 PM UTC

What iOS Can Learn from Unix
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Re: What iOS Can Learn from Unix

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Post by mscottmcbee » Mon, Sep 09, 2013, 4:20 PM UTC

Android has this in the form of intents. Not quite as useful, but still works well. Maybe look at more than just iOS when talking about "the mobile space".

Re: What iOS Can Learn from Unix

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Post by pjmlp » Mon, Sep 09, 2013, 4:37 PM UTC

mscottmcbee wrote: post #2

Android has this in the form of intents. Not quite as useful, but still works well. Maybe look at more than just iOS when talking about "the mobile space".

And Windows Phone adopted it in the form of contracts as well.

Re: What iOS Can Learn from Unix

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Post by jpinkerton88 » Mon, Sep 09, 2013, 4:38 PM UTC

I would like to see this done well. However, with Apple trying to protect and cater to the "every-day user", I wonder if we will ever see something like this, because of the security implications that come with it.

Re: What iOS Can Learn from Unix

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Post by gdubs » Mon, Sep 09, 2013, 4:38 PM UTC

I've posted this before, but it's relevant to mention AudioBus which is a way to pipe separate music apps together on one iOS device. I've incorporated it into one of my apps and it works really well.

According to Michael, it's creator, it uses Mach Ports to communicate between apps. Apple embraced it and included it with GarageBand.

Re: What iOS Can Learn from Unix

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Post by alayne » Mon, Sep 09, 2013, 4:44 PM UTC

gdubs wrote: post #5

I've posted this before, but it's relevant to mention AudioBus which is a way to pipe separate music apps together on one iOS device. I've incorporated it into one of my apps and it works really well. According to Michael, it's creator, it uses Mach Ports to communicate between apps. Apple embraced it and included it with GarageBand.

At this point there is JACK, AudioBus, and soon inter-app audio in iOS7.

Re: What iOS Can Learn from Unix

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Post by k_bx » Mon, Sep 09, 2013, 4:53 PM UTC

> What iOS Can Learn from Unix

Having concept of "files" to be able to open pdf you just downloaded from email/browser inside pdf reader?

Re: What iOS Can Learn from Unix

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Post by tuxracer » Mon, Sep 09, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

So really this is, "What iOS can learn from a 2008 Android device"? The author is wrong in his footnote. Android intents are both action and file type based or even wildcard URL based. http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1219228/complete-action-an...

Re: What iOS Can Learn from Unix

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Post by fournm » Mon, Sep 09, 2013, 5:00 PM UTC

From a user perspective, intents are more useful and cover almost everything they're talking about. Most people really don't want to think about the how, they just want to share something to Facebook somehow. Having a standard way to just hook the Facebook app for it is what they really need.

It is a shame that we can't get more app functionality sharing in place, but really I don't know if we necessarily want to bring that much dependency management into the mobile space at large either.

Re: What iOS Can Learn from Unix

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Post by rcoh » Mon, Sep 09, 2013, 5:02 PM UTC

tuxracer wrote: post #8

So really this is, "What iOS can learn from a 2008 Android device"? The author is wrong in his footnote. Android intents are both action and file type based or even wildcard URL based. http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1219228/complete-action-an...

Ah, thanks for the heads up. I've updated the footnote.