Even if it is approved and released shortly it still doesn't solve the problem of it not being the default Map app. Contact links & location links will still open in Apple's Maps. Still waiting on something comparable to Android's Intents in iOS
There's already a similar mechanism in the URL handlers, but Apple don't let you choose which application to use if multiple ones are registered. This still bugs me.
> There's already a similar mechanism in the URL handlers, but Apple don't let you choose which application to use if multiple ones are registered.
It also doesn't let you override core applications (in that it picks the first one either way), and last time I checked it if two applications registered the same handler and you removed the first one, the association didn't switch to the second one it just broke.
May have been fixed since.
> I'd also like widgets one day.
I just want toggles in the notification bar (DND, airplane, 3G, roaming and location would be sufficient as far as I'm concerned). Instead of the waste of space that Stocks is (yes I know I can remove it from the notification center, and did)
> > There's already a similar mechanism in the URL handlers, but Apple don't let you choose which application to use if multiple ones are registered.
> It also doesn't let you override core applications
Hence "Apple don't let you choose which application to use" - it all happens at Apple's whim, and currently that excludes replacing system apps.
As an Android user, I had no idea that iOS didn't support customizable Intents or Widgets?! That's just crazy to me, since I use widgets for a lot of stuff, and there are several cases where I don't set a default because I want to use different apps to handle different intents depending on the situation (i.e. opening PDFs). I guess most iOS users don't know or care about that sort of thing, they "just want it to work", but man, I would be totally out of my element downgrading to an iPhone.
