“Apple’s CloudKit framework for automating apps’ storage and retrieval of user data ‘in the cloud’ has learned a new trick,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider. “Developers can now read and write data in their app’s public database from a server-side process or script.”
“Last summer, the company added support for accessing CloudKit app data via JavaScript and Web Services, enabling developers to build websites that present the same data to users who sign in with their Apple ID,” Dilger reports. “Apple used this feature to develop a iCloud web client for Notes, presenting a web view of the same content users see when they open their Notes app on iOS 9 or a Mac. ”
Dilger reports, “Apple has now introduced the ability for developers to access their iCloud data via an automated server-to-server request, making it possible to build apps and web sites that not only store data, but can update, process or otherwise editor or modify user data stored on Apple’s servers.”
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