Under the Bridge

Remote View Controllers

This is an interesting read on how the guts of iOS 6 have changed to use XPC for system-provided controllers:

Remote View Controllers in iOS 6

In my previous article on sharing in iOS 6, I hinted at the possibility that Apple was working on a more powerful method to enable sharing between apps without compromising the iOS security architecture.

In fact, Apple is already using a new undocumented concept called Remote View Controllers in iOS 6. This post is an attempt at investigating what is going on under the hood in iOS 6 and what this may mean for future versions of iOS…

Also, a couple interesting tools from the footnotes:

nst / iOS-Runtime-Headers: iOS 6 headers generated using Runtime Browser for iPhone.

Pimping recursiveDescription to include controllers as well as views.

h/t: @osxdevel!

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  • http://bestsmartphone2011.org/display-technology-galaxy-s3-and-iphone-4s-smartphone-comparison/ Smartphone Top 10

    Cool, Remove View Controllers I saw in the Playstation 3 too as well as PowerDVD 12 they support it.