Android has posed a threat in stiff market competition for the iPhone and it was necessary to compete those devices with new features. In order to defeat Android devices in the market Apple has created iOS 5 so naturally it was loaded with innovative features and exemplary functionality. To remain stagnant in such cut throat competition is equal to doing suicide therefore Apple move and release the iOS 5 and changed the game entirely. This is because of the features loaded in iOS 5 which affects the iOS 5 application developments and happened to add newer functionality in the iOS 5 developments. With the release of SDK Apple has hand over new framework to the developers which makes iOS 5 application developments quicker and faster and assists in event handling, on screen content display and interactions with the rest of the system.

Here is brief discussion about those features which has changed the entire game.

iCloud: This is the most attention grabbing feature of the iOS 5 and has capacity to affect the iOS 5 application development tremendously. With the help of this feature app can easily utilize the cloud based data, documents and updates automatically and updates are pushed wirelessly on other iOS 5 devices. This can create a boon for the iOS 5 apps that have the iPhone and iPad versions. You can start working with one app on one device and can carry it on the other device is easy process with iCloud. Though you may not attain the same speed as you do on the cloud with wire, but you can work at some extent.

Automatic Reference Counting: ARC allows apps to run faster and perform smoothly. ARC makes iOS application development process simple and smooth as memory management is done by the compiler as a whole and this eliminate the need of type retain as memory is managed by compiler. It has obvious benefits that no overhead to apps are added and lesser bugs are reported as well as crashes and memory leaks are reported significantly less. This also reduces the coding thus, saves time and effort of the coder.

Siri: This voice recognition tool is amazing and it offers new avenue for iOS 5 application developers to create innovative iOS 5 apps which are path-breaking in nature for the end users. In fact this feature has huge opportunities for iOS 5 application development.

There are other features but the above described features have greater impact on the development.

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