Microsoft Outlook on iOS gets 3D Touch support

It’s now easier for iOS users to send emails, add events to your calendar, or head straight to your calendar itself. A new update for Microsoft Outlook on Apple’s mobile platform introduces 3D Touch support. Now, iPhones 6s and iPhone 6s Plus users just need to press on the home button to be able to do the aforementioned actions. However, that seems to be the extent of the feature. There doesn’t seem to be any other quick actions you can do from the home screen. Hopefully, that changes in the future.

Also in the update, you can print any message or conversation thread right from your phone. Just look for the option in the top right corner of the app. But please, if this is something you plan on using, think if it’s actually necessary to print the email thread that you want to.

Source: Microsoft News | Download: Apple App Store (Free)

Google Play Books gets a night light

For those quite nights you want to read books on your mobile phone, Google Play Books is making it friendlier for your eyes. The app is introducing a new Night Light feature. It gradually filters out blue light from your screen to replace that with a warm, amber light as the sun sets. If you use f.lux, the same principle applies. It will automatically adjust to the amount of sunlight based on the time of day to give you the right temperature and brightness.

The feature is available to both Android and iOS readers, you just need to update to the latest version of the app. To turn it on, all you need to do is open a book and select Night Light option from a pop-up that will show up.

Source: Android Official Blog | Download: Google Play Store (Free) + Apple App Store (Free)

Apple's Craig Federighi dishes on Swift in open source

Apple's SVP for Software Engineering Craig Federighi - Photo By Gadjo C. Sevilla

Apple's Senior Vice President for Software Engineering Craig Federighi was a guest on John Gruber's The Talk Show podcast recently and gave some insights on Swift in open source. Swift is Apple's unified programming language which it hopes developers will shift to from Objective C. Apple released Swift into open source recently hoping to make it widely available to all developers. 

Federighi said that Swift is the most popular language on Github, which is a widely used repository for open source programming and resources.  Expected to be the major language for the next 20 years and the lynchpin of Apple's various OS ecosystems, Swift is now also available for Linux where it can be used on servers. 

 "I think our team is a really seasoned team in the world of developing languages and we know that a language really can’t be developed in a vacuum," Federighi noted. "The first step is you have to crystallize your basic ideas and have a starting point. But we knew we needed feedback then to work toward the language that ultimately Swift has become and will become in the future." For more information on Swift, check this link.

Source: Daring Fireball

Apple Music support rolling out to Sonos users signed up to beta program today

Owners of Sonos speaker systems who are also Apple Music subscribers (and who signed up for the beta earlier this month) will start receiving the long awaited ability to stream Apple Music via Wi-Fi directly to their speakers. The feature, for those who have it, will be available in the Sonos Controller App and is slated for wider release earlier next year. 

Source: 9to5Mac