5 Exciting Reasons why iOS8 is going To Be Incredible

iOS 8, the next iteration of Apple's mobile operating system is the upcoming revolution in this field. In recent times the Android market grew at a rapid pace and gave amazing features as well as assistance to the developers for developing apps. However, iOS8 has got some extensive features that growing businesses as well as iPhone app developers need to get accustomed with before inheriting them.

Here are some of its highlighting features to be familiar with while making applications for iPhone or iPad.

Toolkit for Developers
iOS 8 has some of the best in-built control which developers can consider for enhancement of application. These features will become compatible with iPhone 5S and the latter versions. Thus developers need to be thoroughly aware of all these in order to develop astonishing app using the above mentioned toolkit.

HealthKit
Stored in a centralized and secure location, HealthKit allows apps providing health and fitness services to access shared health-related information in one place. Your app can access any shared health-related information and can provide information about the user without you needing to implement support for specific fitness-tracking devices.

Touch ID
With Touch ID, it is now easier to authenticate a user before accessing some or all content in your app. Fingerprint data is protected and never accessed by iOS or other apps.

PhotoKit
PhotoKit provides new APIs to work with photo and video assets which include iCloud Photos assets too. This way your app can edit photos directly in the Camera roll without having to import them first.  Few of its key features include a thread-safe architecture, requesting changes to assets, and resumable editing of asset content.

CloudKit

With the new CloudKit framework leverage the full power of iCloud and build apps more easily, securely store and efficiently retrieve your app data like structured data in a database or assets right from iCloud.

Summing up, it is believed that iOS8 will make the iPhone app development environment smooth and interactive for developers as well as users. Plus, these addition functionalities will ease the way of workarounds to develop apps reducing the time taken for application commitment on app store.