Apple Pay P2P (iOS 11) - Will there be an SDK for this Fall 2017?
We've all seen the keynote address that announced P2P money transfers are coming to Apple Pay in iOS11. They use their Green Dot-backed "Virtual Cash Card" to provide money transfers directly between people. If received from a bank account, they are free of charge. If received by credit card, they are 3%.
Source: https://www.recode.net/2017/6/5/15741636/apple-pay-p2p-venmo-competitor-apple-pay-cash-money-transfer
WWDC Session: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/714/ (There is nothing on P2P available in the API and I couldn't find WWDC video for the P2P API).
Since they didn't mention anything about the API for iMessage or iOS for P2P stuff ... Does anyone know if P2P transfers will be part of the Apple Pay API in fall 2017. Does anyone have any technical details on the API implementation for this?
Basically I want to know if they will only allow P2P in iOS through their own apps, or can you add your own features to P2P transfers either through iMessage or CocoaTouch libraries?
Thanks in advance.
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Let it break a little.
Since they didn't say anything about the API for iMessage or for iOS for P2P stuff ... Does anyone know if P2P will become part of Apple Pay API in fall 2017.
If they haven't mentioned it or advertised it, that means no, it's not available now, and it probably won't be available this year.
Anyone have directions on the technical details of the API implementation for this?
I believe I only know the right guys you might be looking for. They are employees of Apple Inc. Unfortunately, they have signed a contract with the NDA and will never reveal any future software or hardware releases publicly.
I basically want to know if they will only allow P2P in iOS via their own apps, or can you add your own functionality to P2P transfers via iMessage or via CocoaTouch libraries?
No luck here either. To do this, you will need to roll your own P2P solution.
What could you do if you had plenty of time to spare and parse the iOS runtime headers for any hints for future releases, but honestly, it's useless.
I have a personal story about this and how things work in the iOS world. The iPhone 6 came out in 2014 with an NFC chip, and many people were hoping that Apple would make a public API to use it. This did not happen with the release of the iPhone 6s. This has never happened with the release of the iPhone 7.
Apple released a very limited CoreNFC API at this year's WWDC, and that's not what most developers were hoping for.
So what does this mean? When it comes to new API tech support, never expect Apple to release it immediately.
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