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Filed under: iPod Family<\/a>, Developer<\/a>, iPhone<\/a>, SDK<\/a><\/p>\n \niPhone developer Emmanuele Vulcano has been working on a new iPhone OS data exchange protocol called SwapKit<\/a> [Apple Dev account required for link]. Hosted on GitHub, SwapKit<\/a> provides App Store-friendly application-independent ways to publish data with custom metadata for sharing between applications.<\/p>\n SwapKit can automatically find all other SwapKit-using applications on a device and determine which of those applications can perform specific actions on that data. For example, a developer might send a string to the first Twitter-ready client it finds and request that client to post the string as a new tweet. SwapKit basically offers a Mac-style LaunchServices for iPhone.<\/p>\n Open source and provided under the MIT license (basically “use however you like”), SwapKit remains in early development. The screencast shown above demonstrates basic SwapKit features, demoing both sending and receiving functionality.<\/p>\n TUAW<\/a>iPhone devsugar: SwapKit<\/a> originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)<\/a> on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read<\/a> | Permalink<\/a> | Email this<\/a> | Comments<\/a> <\/p>\n Buy This Item: [Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/h6>\n