Dev:Updating extensions for iOS 10

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SBApplication
In iOS 9 and applications dynamic and shortcut items were accessed view dynamicShortcutItems and staticShortcutItems. These have now been changed to dynamicApplicationShortcutItems and staticApplicationShortcutItems;

SBIconController
You used to be able to manually create a shortcut item and activate it using _activateShortcutItem:fromApplication:. This has been removed.

Logging
The system logging APIs have changed again – ASL and syslog are now deprecated in favor of the unified logging system. NSLog and CFLog now send their output through this system.

The Console app in macOS Sierra supports reading logs from connected iOS devices – just select the device from the sidebar. The new concept seems to encourage being verbose, so system processes have become pretty noisy. Right click a message to reveal options for filtering to or filtering out messages from a process, library, subsystem, category, etc. You probably want to filter out irrelevant noisy processes otherwise you’ll be overwhelmed and need to scroll a lot. Set up a filter you’re happy with and click Save in the top-right. There is also the log command line tool.

If you want to use os_log, as a courtesy for others, use os_log_create with your package identifier as the subsystem. Keep in mind the APIs are new to iOS 10. If you support older iOS, retrieve the function symbols at runtime with dlsym and fall back to an old logging mechanism if they are null.

SBDashBoardPageViewController
The iOS 10 lockscreen presents subclasses of SBDashBoardPageViewController as pages for the user to swipe through; new pages can be added with ease. See this wiki page for further information.