Boost user productivity and provide an excellent user experience by incorporating key Apple technologies, such as UIDocument, Open in Place, Document Provider Extension, and iCloud Drive, into your document-based app.
UIDocument
Basing your document strategy on UIDocument implementation frees you to focus on your app’s specific needs. Benefits include automatic file coordination that improve reliability, asynchronous reading and writing for a smoother user experience, and robust change tracking and conflict resolutions for more predictable results.
Edit PDF on Mac using Preview app. Preview is Mac’s built-in solution and it has become useful and powerful over the years. With this application, you can easily highlight, annotate and include images in the PDF file. The Preview app is one of the best PDF editors available for Apple devices. Many apps on your Mac save your documents automatically (a feature known as Auto Save) while you work.You can save a document at any time. Save a document: In a document, choose File Save, enter a name, choose where to save the document (to see more locations, click the down arrow button ), then click Save.
Open in Place
By implementing Open in Place, you empower your users to organize and work on documents in the way that works best for them. You can store documents in your own app container, in a folder on iCloud Drive, or even in a third-party cloud provider’s app container. Open in Place lets multiple apps simultaneously edit an individual document, freeing users from the burden of keeping track of multiple copies in different locations. By supporting Open in Place, you can create a truly seamless document editing and collaboration experience your users will love.
iCloud Drive
Putting documents into iCloud Drive is a great way for users to access their content across all of their devices. When you add support for iCloud Drive, your users can easily move from one device to another while always working with the latest version of their content. iCloud Drive also lets users organize their content in the way that works best for them. When implemented with Open in Place, multiple apps can collaborate on documents easily to maximize productivity.
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Free Word Document App For Mac
Building Great Document-based Apps in iOS 11
Watch the WWDC 2017 session 'Building Great Document-based Apps in iOS 11' to learn about building document-based apps and providing a great user experience.
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