Shuichi Tsutsumi, the same developer who released the iOS 7 sampler has now released the iOS 8 sampler which you can expect to grow and be updated over time, but already includes many different examples.
Here’s an explanation for most of the code samples currently included:
- Audio Effects – distortion and delay
- New core image filter previews
- Custom Core Image filters using CIKernel
- A Basic Metal Example showing how to render a set of cubes
- Metal uniform streaming example
- Rendering 2D images on a 3D scene with SceneKit
- Example showing how to fetch all HealthKit data available
- Invoking Touch ID using local authentication
- Visual Effects – UIBlur Effect and UIVibrancyEffect
- Browsing with WKWebView
- Displaying action sheets and alerts with UIAlertController
- Local Notifications with UIUSerNotificationSettings
- Using the pedometer API
- Playing media with AVKit
- Creating histograms from images
- Generating Aztec Code and 128 barcodes
- An example showing off newly available fonts
- Using UIPopoverControllerPesenter
You can find the iOS 8 Sampler on Github here.