iOS 8 'Extensibility' Will Allow Widgets, Third-Party Keyboards

Apple showed off some developer-centric features in iOS 8 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), and a notable one among them was Extensibility, which lets apps share some aspects of their abilities with other apps.

While the iPhone already has some inter-app functionality, Extensibility brings it to a new level. At the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi showed how Safari could use a Bing Translate extension to change the text on a Japanese website into English. He then shared an item from the page via a Pinterest extension. Read more...