User Interface, Framework and Latest Version of iOS 8 Engineering students of modern times should essentially possess good knowledge about iOS, its user interface and the framework. iOS is the acronym for iPhone Operating System i.e. an innovative mobile operating system designed and developed by professionals of Apple Inc. This is a type of operating system, which possesses the ability to power large numbers of mobile devices offered by the company, including iPod touch, iPhone and iPad. In this blog post, professors of engineering college in Jabalpur mentioned about necessary user interface as well as fundamental framework of iPhone Operating System. User Interface iOS user interface performs its functions based on direct manipulation concept with the help of multiple touch gestures. Here, elements of interface control are switches, sliders and buttons. In addition, interaction with the Operating System will include different types of gestures, like tap, swipe, pinch and the reverse pinch, all of them are available with specific definitions categorized under the big context of iOS and the respective multiple touch interface. Some applications also use internal accelerometers to give quick response to the shaking of device or to rotate it in three different dimensions. Framework sharing of iOS According to experts teaching IT or Computer Science Engineering in Shri Ram Institute of Technology, iOS shares some of its frameworks with OS X, which will include Foundation and Core Foundation. However, the User Interface toolkit of this operating system is Cocoa Touch rather than the Cocoa of Operating System X. In this manner, the operating system provides UI Kit framework as compared to the framework of AppKit. Latest Version iOS 8 Apple Inc. recently launched the latest version of iPhone Operating System as iOS 8. This version has brought many changes into the structure and respective operations. The latest version comprises of 300 new characters, along with flags of more numbers of countries and thumbs up symbol available in different types of skin colors.
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