Can I use the Apple SearchKit indexing framework in iOS, or is it only Mac OS? And can someone point me in the direction of some tutorials for getting that hooked up in iOS?
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As mentioned in the Search Kit Programming Guide, Search Kit is only available for OS X, not iOS. So far there is no API for Spotlight in iOS either.
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Is it possible to make use of google Maps street view in iOS 5 ipad programming With annotations and other features of mapkit
Click on What's New in iOS » iOS 5 » MapKit.
If there is no mention of a new API for that feature, or if the framework is not even listed, then it hasn't been added. This answers all questions about new features in any framework of any iOS version.
You should try apple developer forums as iOS 5 is currently under NDA.
It's available in Maps, but wether it's accessible as an API which I think you're asking, I don't know, expect an answer from someone who has downloaded the beta SDK.
Good luck !
I have iPad game application. Now I want it for the Mac OS x. This application is using Cocos2D and Gamekit framework. How can I create Mac OS X application. Gamekit framework is only available in ios. Any help is appreciable.
Its a very broad question. You are asking how too create a Mac App which can't be done in a single SO answer
Your best start would be to use the Cocoa Application template and work forward. The Google and Apple example code will show you many examples.
Depending on how much of your program is rooted in the UIKit based API will determine how easy it is to translate your program. The UIKit framework doesnt exist in Mac but most items have an equivalent NSThing equivalent (UIButton is similar to NSButton)
You will have to disable the GameKit stuff as that isn't on MacOS(yet)
The core of your troubles will be to place your Cocos2D view into a NSWindow hierarchy and possibly full screen it at launch.
Good Luck
I'm developping an ios (3.1.3) application to manage contacts, tasks, activities, etc. These models are managed by core data and it works very well. Now I want to make all these items searchable in the spotlight search bar in iOS.
Is that possible?
And if so, how to code it? I found the "Core Data Spotlight Integration Programming Guide" but it's not suitable for iOS and I don't find any document or tutorial related to what I want.
Any ideas, suggestions? or full solution! :D
Thanks in advance!
This will be possible from iOS 9 onwards.
Apple just released a CoreSpotlight framework at WWDC 2015, and with integration its possible to search contents within third party apps and much more.
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You cannot integrate your application with Spotlight in iOS for now, there's no API to do it.
You can file a radar and wish an new Spotlight API in iOS 5?
Global search spanning all apps was a core feature of PalmOS going way back to PalmOS version 2.0, if I recall correctly. Yet even today, Apple's iOS Spotlight Search still only supports the built in apps provided by Apple.
It is shameful that Apple hasn't opened this up to developers yet - it would make Spotlight so much more useful on the iPhone and iPad.
You can now do it with iOS9 Search.
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releasenotes/General/WhatsNewIniOS/Articles/iOS9.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016198-SW3
Apple has added Spotlight to OS3.0 release. I am having problem finding any API for third party apps to work with Spotlight Search. Is such a thing available?
No, there are no third-party APIs for Spotlight Search in iPhone OS 3.0.
I ran across VirtualEarthKit at http://consonancesw.com/developers/virtualearthkit/faq.php but so far they only have a wrapper for OS X and not iPhone.
Microsoft has launched Bing SDK for iPhone and Mac both.
Visit [iBing-CodePlex][1]
[1]: http://ibing.codeplex.com/ .
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