Memoir, anApp Store favorite & IntentKit with @lazerwalker

The team from Memoir will share insights from the huge launch of their extremely ingenious photo app, featured in the App Store.

TechCrunch said in their September coverage:

“Context is a major focus of iOS 8,” explains co-founder and CEO Lee Hoffman.

“Many of the new APIs — core location, today extensions — allow developers to figure out (in a very permission-centric way) where you are and who you are with, and then give you amazingly relevant content,” he says.

The new Predictive Photo Sharing specifically takes advantage of an iOS 8 feature called “Visit Monitoring,” which is part of the iOS 8 Core Location Framework."

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/17/memoir-debuts-a-predictive-photo-sharing-app-for-ios-8/

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Why don't most iOS apps give you the option to open maps links in Google Maps instead of Apple Maps? Inter-app linking is a problem that both Android and Windows phone have solutions for, but Apple doesn't give developers a lot of help in this area. This talk will look at the way the IntentKit library attempts to solve this problem on iOS, as well as discussing some larger issues of API design that come up when building a library such as IntentKit that provides user-facing UI components while exposing multiple different developer APIs.

Mike Lazer-Walker (yes, that's his real name) is an independent game developer and iOS consultant. Formerly, he was with Pivotal Labs and Zynga. He's responsible for the ever-popular f***ingblocksyntax.com .

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