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App extensions are a feature introduced in iOS 8 that allows apps to extend their functionality and become available to users while they're using other apps. Extensions are created to do a specific task, such as enabling sharing Safari pages through your app, or to display an interface in Notification Center for your app.

App extensions are a feature introduced in iOS 8 that allows apps to extend their functionality and become available to users while they are using other apps.

Extensions are created to do a specific task, such as enabling sharing Safari pages through your app, or to display an interface in Notification Center for your app.

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Load specific ViewController from Storyboard in iOS 8 Today Extension

I am working on an application which provides a new Today Extension/Widget for the Notification Center, as this feature has been added with iOS 8. However, I need the extension to choose between a couple different view controllers, all set up in…
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How to make an iOS-App Extension for the Notification Center full width?

I am currently trying to develop my own iOS-App Extension for the Notification-Center but there is a problem with the width. I can not change my widget to be full width like the Calender-Extension on the screenshot. There is always some space to the…
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Today-Extension call specific ViewController in App

In my today-extension I use the following code to launch my app: NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"hdb://"]; [[self extensionContext] openURL:url completionHandler:nil]; Is it possible to call a specific ViewController to be displayed after…
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Custom keyboard extension appearance is always dark?

When I run my custom keyboard, it's always being styled with my dark style. If I use they keyboard in Safari for example, this code returns yellow when it should be red. If I then pull down Spotlight it still returns yellow. What am I doing wrong…
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iOS 8 custom keyboard on device

I created an custom keyboard using the default template in Xcode 6 and when I run it in the simulator I see a keyboard with a "Next Keyboard" button. However, when I try to run the app on my iOS 8 device, the keyboard will show up in settings but…
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Installation for Today extension

I am playing with IOS 8 new features : Today extension. But many times I have to install the main app two times to get new Widgets from my app to display in IOS Today. Does it happen for everyone ? or it just my mistake in configuration. Thanks,
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Add action for button in Today extension (widget) in iOS 8?

I have a button in Widget iOS8. How can I get event when button on click?
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iOS 8 Custom Keyboard extension don't allow share data with containing app?

Refer to this article: http://www.glimsoft.com/06/28/ios-8-today-extension-tutorial/. I did a Today extension can share data with containing app. But when I move the same code into my Custom Keyboard extension, My custom keyboard never read data…
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Check if input text is empty in custom keyboard for iOS 8

I'm developing a custom keyboard for iOS 8, and I would like to check if input text is empty or not, in order to enable or disable return key button, if it's needed (self.textDocumentProxy.enablesReturnKeyAutomatically == YES). This is what I've…
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Using UIActivityViewController to share spreadsheets, videos, etc

I'm having a problem when using the UIActivityViewController to share spreadsheets and videos (and probably other file types). The problem is that the right type identifiers are not found. For example, when I try to attach a spreadsheet, as seen in…
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Photo Editing extension needs lots of memory and got crashed. How to avoid it?

We've developed a Photo Editing extension to edit user's photos. But the photos which user take have large high-resolution. When editing them in extension, it will cost about 100-200MB memory and extension get crashed. But we can't reduce user…
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Delay when running ios8 Extension from debugger

When I run my ios8 extension project on a real device from the debugger there is a 10-15 second delay before it starts up. Does anyone know why ?
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iOS 8 keyboard extension - able to use Apple default keyboard template xib?

I was wondering if, in the process of creating and testing the keyboard extension, whether I am able to use something like the default Apple QWERTY keyboard to test functions. I saw that the recommended steps as shown in several tutorials is to use…
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iOS Share Extension opens on simulator iPad; does not open on hardware iPad running iOS 8

I'm currently making a share extension using Xcode 6.5. I was previously testing with only simulators and everything was working great. Today I tried running on a hardware iPad running iOS 8 and discovered my share extension does not even open. I am…
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UIDocumentMenuViewController buttons not doing anything

So I'm testing out Apple's new Document Provider extension. I'm trying to open up a UIDocumentMenuViewController up, and that part is working. But when I try to click on one of the items it presents, it just cancels the action sheet. This happens…
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