Algolia Search Offline SDK now supports Cocoapods

We have great news for our iOS and OS X users: our Offline SDK is now available as a CocoaPods dependency.

Cocoapods is a popular dependency management tool that lets you specify the libraries (dependencies) you want to use for your project in an easy-to-edit text file (Podfile). It then fetches all the required libraries and sets up your Xcode workspace.

You can now set up Algolia Search Offline in your iOS project with this line in your Podfile:
pod 'AlgoliaSearchOffline-iOS-SDK'

You can also set up Algolia Search Offline in your OS X project with this line:
pod 'AlgoliaSearchOffline-OSX-SDK'

Once you’re done, simply use the “pod install” command to set up Algolia Search Offline in your project. Now it’s easy to manage library dependencies for iOS and OS X projects!

V2: Our new Offline Search SDK with Geo-search and other features!

While our latest news focused on the Algolia Search cloud offer (you can still join the beta), we’re pleased to introduce a major new version of Algolia Search offline: V2! It is available today for iOS, Android and OS X. Windows Phone and Windows versions will be released as soon as they are ready. A few months in the making, we used our early customers’ feedback to introduce new features while simplifying integration.

Algolia became the easiest way to search by geolocation!

The ease of integration is a constant concern for us and that’s why we carefully consider every new feature. Two important features made it in this version:
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Search on OS X: Search Kit vs Algolia

I recently read Mattt Thompson’s post about Apple Search Kit and he’s right about it being rather unknown, at least I had never heard of it before. So my very first thought was “how does it compare to our own SDK for OS X?” I immediately asked Julien if he could perform a few tests. Here are our findings.

Scope of use

Before examining the technical differences, it is important to stress the different intents behind the creation of both tools.

Two new Platforms in beta: Mac OS X and Windows Phone 8

After the launch of our Windows 8 beta (desktop and tablets), I’m pleased to start the year with still new platforms support! And this time it’s directly two new platforms that we launch: Mac OSX and Windows Phone 8.

Desktop Continued Support

Following the mobile trend, “app” stores are becoming more and more popular on desktops. OS X started first with its App Store in January 2011 (already 2 years ago) while Windows joined the trend only recently.

With the release of this beta, we now support both environments! Get ready to build fantastic search in your apps! Continue reading…