Some nice little changes:
- Split-screen mode on newer iPads: this should be easy for us to support - our UI layouts are all programmatically generated anyway and will accommodate whatever size the system throws at them - but won't be usable until Apple lets us start submitting iOS 9 optimized apps in September.
- Related to that, there's a neat new feature where you can swipe in a mini version of an app in an iPad sidebar that should be rather magnificent when you're looking up Chinese translations while composing a message in WeChat or whatever (among other things).
- New "Share" command in the system text selection menu - this will link to the sharing App Extension we're working on anyway. So now you'll be able to get at Pleco definitions with just one more tap than the system "Define" command.
- Gorgeous new Apple-designed Chinese font 《蘋方》which we'll definitely offer as an option in Pleco and may even consider making the default once we start requiring iOS 9.
- French-English dictionary in the system "Define" command, which is great because it'll save us the trouble of adding our own version of this for Grand Ricci.
- Some quality improvements to system TTS (including a male voice though we haven't confirmed if it's app-accessible yet) which may make it a better counterpart to (or replacement for) our add-on one.
- Still no offline voice recognition (even though Mac OS X has had it for a year now and Android for almost as long) so I think we're going to move forward on another solution for that.
- The speedy WKWebView embedded web browser now supports offline documents, meaning we can finally use it in our document reader in place of UIWebView. So that should all get a good bit faster.
- Support for deep indexing of app content with Spotlight - this doesn't look like it would let us embed an entire dictionary, but we might be able to make flashcards searchable that way at least.