14 DAY TRIAL // Apple is making it easy for developers looking to deploy word processor application into iOS 7 by supplying a Text Kit framework with the iPhone Software Development Kit inside Xcode.
A full-featured, high-level framework for apps that utilize text, Text Kit offers fine typography and can lay out styled text into paragraphs, columns, and pages.
It’s incredibly useful if you have high hopes for a word processor that also allows users to employ graphics, such as Apple’s giraffe in the iWork promo material (displayed above).
The framework easily flows text around graphics and other arbitrary regions, and is able to manage multiple fonts.
Integrated with all UIKit text-based controls, Text Kit enables applications to “create, edit, display, and store text more easily—and with less code than was previously possible in iOS,” according to Apple.
The Text Programming Guide for iOS includes tons of information regarding Text Kit. Developers looking to create a word app are encouraged to give it a glance.