It was a few weeks ago when Tim Cook assured that Apple was willing to make its operating system more open. That did not mean much less that the developers would have absolute freedom to do what they wanted, you have to be realistic and that is extremely unlikely, if not absolutely impossible. But it is a great hope for iOS to improve in the sense that developers can access certain functions that until now were Apple's private preserve, and one of them was precisely the sending of notifications via Bluetooth. In iOS 7 we can already enjoy notifications from third-party applications (WhatsApp, Facebook ...) on the Pebble smartwatch, something that in iOS 6 was limited to the Messages, Mail and Calls applications.
And is that Apple has made several APIs available to developers that will make it possible for devices connected by Bluetooth to access the notification center, and in this way, receive notifications, and even mark them as read on our device. There is also another important new API for developers, which allows your applications to keep some of their functions running even though they have been closed. This handling of multitasking by developers was until now also very limited. This will eliminate the need to keep an application in the background so that it can continue to perform a certain function, such as sending notifications to a device.
Sending notifications to my pebble watch it's fickle, and sometimes I have to manually turn off and on notifications for some apps to get them to work after I've lost the Bluetooth link. But we have to remember that it is only a first beta of iOS 7, and that developers must update their applications with the new APIs, and Apple must correct the bugs of iOS 7. Without a doubt, great news that Apple is taking this new path.
More information - “Pebble” smart watch review: it was worth the wait
Source - IPad news
Very good news
Very good news
like ..
like ..
That opens the rumors of a possible Apple watch
That opens the rumors of a possible Apple watch
So that it does reach my boyfriends
So that it does reach my boyfriends
It kills me haha
It kills me haha
the ios 7 is not yet….
IOS 7 is in beta. I have put it on the iPhone 5
IOS 7 is in beta. I have put it on the iPhone 5
IOS 7 is in beta. I have put it on the iPhone 5
IOS 7 is in beta. I have put it on the iPhone 5
This is great news, since little by little iOS is opening up more to developers (at a very slow pace) but it does it nonetheless. And this for cars that connect via Bluetooth or use smart watches like Pebble because it comes in handy, since it will not be necessary to jailbreak.
Please correct the post because what you say is not true.
"In iOS 7 we can already enjoy notifications from third-party applications (WhatsApp, Facebook ...) on the Pebble smartwatch, something that in iOS 6 was limited to the Messages, Mail and calls applications."
IT IS NOT TRUE. I have iOS6 and a Pebble and I enjoy ALL the notifications of ALL the programs that have notifications (facebook, whatsapp, goals, twitter, line… all!). The only thing is that sometimes they "disconnect" (by losing the bluetooth connection between mobile and watch) and you have to go to the notification settings and activate them again for each program.
The advantage of iOS7 is that they are no longer disconnected. You do not have to do the process when you lose the connection (when you restart the phone or the watch or because they have been separated a lot). It is a great advantage that will improve the experience of using the Pebble, but it is not that these notifications did not exist before.
And of course, when I say that in iOS ALL notifications are sent to Pebble, I mean an iPhone WITHOUT Jailbreak and WITHOUT the need to have the specific application in the background (not even the Pebble program in the background ... which by the way It is a bad idea to have it running because it eats up the battery which is nice and only serves to send the name of the caller to the clock instead of the number when you receive a call)