The Big Nerd Ranch Blog

One of Apple’s showcase features is the new Files app, which allows users to manage files stored locally and in iCloud. In this post, we learn how your app can take advantage of this cool new feature.

JavaScriptCore is not a new framework; in fact, it’s been lurking on Mac OS X ever since version 10.2. But with iOS 7 and Mac OS 10.9, Apple has introduced a native Objective-C API for JavaScriptCore. Apple does provide some documentation in the form of programmer’s comments in the header files, but otherwise this API is poorly documented. We first wrote about JavaScriptCore and iOS 7 last fall, but today, I want to demonstrate how and why one might include JavaScript in an iOS app. By the end you will be able to: