Michal Marek The developer James Thomson, who is behind the popular calculator for iOS called PCalc, announced on Twitter that Apple is forcing him to remove the widget from the application, which allows you to perform calculations directly in the Notification Center of iOS 8. According to Apple's rules, widgets are not allowed to perform calculations.
Apple has for the use of widgets, which in iOS 8 can be placed in a section Today Notification center, fairly strict rules. These are of course available to developers in the relevant documentation. Among other things, Apple prohibits the use of any widget that performs multi-step operations. "If you want to create an app extension that allows a multi-step operation, or any lengthy operation like downloading and uploading files, Notification Center is not the right choice." However, Apple's rules do not directly mention the calculator and calculations.
Apple has told me that Notification Center widgets on iOS cannot perform any calculations, and the current PCalc widget must be removed.
- James Thomson (@jamesthomson) October 29, 2014
In any case, the situation is quite strange and unexpected. Apple itself promotes the PCalc application in the App Store, namely in the Best Apps for iOS 8 – Notification Center Widgets category. The sudden turnaround and the need to remove the core function of this application is therefore surprising and must have surprised its creator (and its users) quite unpleasantly, as his other comments on Twitter indicate.
PCalc is not the first and certainly not the last "victim" of Apple's restrictions related to the Notification Center and widgets. In the past, Apple already removed the Launcher application from the App Store, which made it possible to create various quick operations using URLs and then display them in the form of icons in the Notification Center. Launcher thus made it possible to write an SMS message, start a call with a specific contact, write a tweet and so on directly from the locked iPhone.
PCalc has not yet been pulled from the App Store, but its creator has been asked to remove the widget from the app.
Apple banned its own widget :-)
I don't understand why Apple is taking so much of the power to decide for the user. Yes, it's Apple's store, do whatever you want with it. I understand that he doesn't want malware there, or for the store to be littered with a billion apps that do the same thing. But I don't understand why when someone invents something, Apple says that something is not meant for it and it has to go. Why isn't the user deciding something like this? I like the widget, I will use the app. I don't like the widget, I will uninstall the app.
Somehow. While I understand their right to the rules, on the other hand, some of the rules are really unbelievable. Maybe not so much because they limit developers and then users, but because someone even thought of such rules and still requires them to be followed. I could understand this, albeit with reluctance, in the state administration, but it is simply absurd for a commercial organization.
please think about it again…. someone designs a platform, decides that applications belong here, information widgets belong here, there should only be a lockscreen with time and a maximum number of messages or notices... in the notes there should be notes and not necessarily a calculator or a photo of Britney Spears who undresses and dresses every 5 minutes. Every user interface needs rules or the developers will make it a mess.
Well, think again about who is thinking for you. Do you have an opinion and can't decide whether to use something or not? When you go to a public toilet, do you wait for someone to tell you which one to go to, how to sit there and how to use the toilet? Or do you choose the one that is closest to you and at the same time is not polluted? And if you make the wrong choice by mistake, will you go elsewhere next time? But on the other hand, I recognize that most of humanity is happy to have someone make decisions for them, it takes away their sense of responsibility and if it doesn't work out, they have someone to scold and it's not their fault of judgment and free will, but the fault of the one they listen to . Ideal.
You won't find much malware on the app store, but it's definitely covered in billions of apps.
I would recommend buying an Android device.
it doesn't work very well when I develop applications for iOS :)
don't be surprised, they do it just so that the user experience not only with iOS but also with its applications is complete, so that developers don't use the interface in some twisted way that breaks the original logic... they don't do it to fulfill power ambitions, for God's sake, they do it just so that users get quality and not only with pre-installed applications, but also with all those found in their catalog.
And who will compensate him for the costs???
"its creator has been ordered to remove the widget from the app." ? :)
Maybe Apple is already working on iOS9 and he wants to put the calculator in the notification center and it should be one of the two essential functions of iOS9 :-)
it can't be related to the fact that it feels like the widgets don't do much and aren't running for a long time, so there isn't a lot of serious power management involved in managing them? then the calculator turned on and left on the display could drain the battery excessively
it is possible, but it is certain that the calculator between the notifications is an ordinary repetition of the original meaning of the notifications.
And the circle closed: http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/30/apple-calculator-widgets-pcalc/
I have to reluctantly agree with Apple... this simply does not belong in notifications. Imagine how it would look if the authors put their widgets here on the desktop, here in the notifications, there on the lockscreen, simply not according to where they really belong, but just so that they are as visible as possible, it would be a nice bug. The calculator is not one of the notifications.