Yesterday during the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco Apple has unveiled iOS 7, “the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone five years ago” according to the CEO Tim Cook.
The new operating system is already available for developers and will be officially released in the coming fall.
The new interface show a completely renewed design compared to the previous versions: it’s minimal and elegant, with flatter icons and a predominance of white. Colors are used only when useful to highlight contents. The use of 3D layers connected to the motion sensor give the user a real 3D effect when moving the phone.
The result is making your phone “appear bigger” because apps make a better use of the screen.
Lots of new amazing and innovative features will be introduced:
- the Music App has a brand-new user interface and includes iTunes Radio, Apple’s music streaming service;
- a smart multitasking function that learns the users’ habits, memorizes your favorite apps and prepares it to be ready before you open it;
- the brand new Control Center to easily access to the most used settings as Wi-Fi, brightness, airplane mode and flashlight;
- a renewed Safari mobile browser with gesture-based navigation, full-screen browsing and flipping card-tab overview;
- the AirDrop feature will let nearby users share photos or files peer-to-peer;
- refreshed Camera and Photos with simple layout and the automatic organization of photos by Collections, Moments and Years.
- Siri with new look and new voices (a male one too) and the integration of Twitter, Bing and Wikipedia;
- the useful car integration to have your iOS screen on your car and place calls, play music, look up directions.
- the new App Store will show you apps that are popular nearby and your apps now update automatically.
All the new features are wrapped in this video:
Here at MobPartner we are very thrilled about the new possibilities that iOS 7 could give to users and to us in terms of mobile advertisement.
Our iOS developers are already beta testing the new Apple operating system in order to deliver you right on time the new iOS SDK including the new iOS7 APIs, that will allow you to easily integrate innovative ad formats in your iPhone and iPad applications.
Stay tuned for more info about MobPartner iOS SDK!