Ubuntu Impish Indri lands from Canonical
Monday, October 25, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Canonical released Ubuntu 21.10, the environment for cloud-native developers and AI/ML innovators across the desktop, devices, and cloud.
"As open source becomes the new default, we aim to bring Ubuntu to all the corners of the enterprise and all the places developers want to innovate. From the biggest public clouds to the tiniest devices, from DGX ser...
App localization done right
Thursday, December 27, 2018 by Neal Thoms
Mobile devices are everywhere, and so are the apps that run on them. Vast numbers of smartphones mean vast numbers of users – and irrespective of the language they speak or where they live, these users demand a wide range of specialized applications.
If you’re a mobile app developer, you may have already considered adapting your product to other markets. ...
The differences between web apps and native apps
Thursday, October 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
Even in 2018, years past the origional question, the debate rages on across the land, in office spaces and conference rooms every day - should we build a full-blown native mobile app, or is distributing over the web good enough?
By now everyone knows the “mobile-first” mentality because statistics like 50% of web searches being done from a mobile dev...
Android P developer notes
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
The official Android Pie release has been announced in a Google blog post which promises the rollout of some pretty substantial changes to authentication, navigation UI, task prediction, and more. With the software currently in beta and waiting for its official release, it’s important that developers get ready to start planning their next moves in order to strike ...
Elliptic Labs to use Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 by Richard Harris
Elliptic Labs has announced that its touch-free ultrasound gesture technology is running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform using the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine (NPE). Elliptic Labs’ ultrasound virtual sensors are an example of technology leveraging the NPE's machine learning and artificial intelligence optimization tools on the Snapdragon mobile pl...
Creating apps for iPhone X with newly opened doors
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 by Evan Rosenbaum
Over the past ten years of new iPhones, Apple has introduced features - some with little fanfare and others as marquee parts of the new phones - which cause a seismic shift in user behavior. Shifts in user behavior create opportunities for app developers to create enduring brands and experiences.The Apps of TomorrowAn analysis of some of these features and the enduring ...
The HTML5 killer you may not know about
Thursday, September 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
For years HTML has been the universal language for website construction, and it has been impressively resilient in the face of competing languages thus far. It’s been known to have the best combination of speed, security, responsiveness and compatibility of all programming languages on the market. However, the world is expanding beyond the internet browser to mobile and...
AppDynamics Developer Toolkit release for Spring is here
Thursday, April 6, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
AppDynamics, a Cisco company and a application intelligence company, is planning on a Spring ‘17 release, including the AppDynamics Developer Toolkit and major updates to Enterprise iQ and Business iQ. The new releases are aimed at giving application teams better abilities to deliver impactful customer experiences.In our digital-first world, where quality and performanc...
Following Joking Hazard: New emoji and avatar creator app launches
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
After entertaining fans with their super-popular card game Joking Hazard, Cyanide & Happiness just debuted their custom Emoji and Avatar Creator app on iOS and Android. Packed with the same dark and offensive humor that made Joking Hazard the second most-successful card game in Kickstarter history, the app is the latest release from Explosm - Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wi...
IBM: Humanizing Digital Conversations
Friday, October 7, 2016 by Rama Akkiraju
In the Watson Cognitive services portfolio, there are services such as Personality Insights, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Analysis, Tone Analyzer and Intent Detector (called Natural Language Classifier). These services enable the inference of one’s personality traits, sentiments, emotions, communication tones and the intents expressed by people in their writing respectiv...
How Rapid Application Development is Changing Everything
Saturday, September 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
I admit it, every time I hear the word RAD I go back to the 80's when BMX freestyle was at it's peak (I still own my beloved GT Performer)! But the RAD we are talking about here is "Rapid Application Development" (RAD), that used to be something reserved for making quick apps with minimal code input, little functionally, and that you did not intend on maintaining f...
New Interactive Ink From MyScript Lets You Enable Your Users to Write and Draw
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
MyScript has launched of Interactive Ink a digital ink technology that allows ink editing through gestures and providing device reflow flexibility. Interactive Ink relies on real-time predictive handwriting recognition, made possible by artificial intelligence and neural network architectures. MyScript’s application developer toolkit (ATK) will now include this tec...
Online Mobile Web Coding Conference to be Held October 1214
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 by Richard Harris
O'Reilly is offering a three day online conference offering training on how to leverage mobile device hardware for responsive sites, progressive web apps (PWA), and optimized mobile interfaces. The conference will be held October 12–14 and training will be from 9AM – 1PM PDT.The interactive workshop focus on creating sites and applications that work across a wide variet...
Sencha Releases Latest Java Based Framework for Building HTML5 Web Apps
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
Sencha has released Sencha GXT 4, the latest update to the company’s Java framework for building HTML5 web applications. This release is focused around support for touch and gestures for tablets and touch screen laptops.Sencha GXT offers UI components that are interoperable with native GWT (formerly Google Web Toolkit) components. These components include HTML5 grids, t...
WaveMaker Offers New Hybrid Functionality to its RAD Platform
Friday, December 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
WaveMaker has released the latest version of its Rapid App Development platform which offers responsive front-end development of applications for the web or mobile browser. The company’s new RAD Hybrid Mobile App Development platform adds new hybrid mobile app development capabilities that can leverage device capabilities such as camera, geo-location, network, local fil...
Sensor Prototyping and Development Platform for IoT from InvenSense
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
InvenSense has released the SensorStudio graphical development tool and the InvenSense FireFly development kit, offering a sensor prototyping and development platform for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.The InvenSense IoT development platform is centralized around InvenSense’s ICM-30630 MEMS 6-axis sensor (3-axis gyroscope + 3-axis accelerometer) with an integrate...
Silicon Labs Releases New Developer Reference for ZigBee Home Automation
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Silicon Labs has released a new series of reference designs that can help reduce time to market and simplify the development of ZigBee-based home automation, connected lighting and smart gateway products. The cost effective reference designs are the first in a series of IoT solutions from Silicon Labs that include the hardware, firmware and software tools that deve...
Native Mobile Automated App Testing Comes to Telerik Test Studio
Friday, November 6, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Telerik, a Progress company, has announced the latest release of its Telerik Test Studio automated testing platform, adding mobile testing automation for native iOS and Android applications. The enhancement offers a point-and-click opportunity for developers to capture and replay complex mobile testing functionality.Telerik Test Studio offers a low code/no code automati...
Choosing Your Next Industrial Mobility OS
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 by Mark Kirstein
With Windows Mobile and CE About to Sunset, Android and Windows 10 are Tomorrow’s Top OptionsToday’s mobile operating system landscape presents choices for industrial enterprises when it comes to selecting the platform upon which their applications should be built. When you think about a global enterprise distributing internal mobile solutions, you’re talking about...
Ionic Continues to Build Out its HTML5 Hybrid App Development Platform
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Ionic continues to build out its open source front-end SDK for developing hybrid mobile apps with HTML5. Ionic offers a library of mobile-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components, gestures, and tools for building highly interactive apps - built with the Sass CSS extension and optimized for AngularJS.Ionic is focused mainly on the look, feel, and UI interaction of an app. T...
Augumenta Offers New Functionality to Enterprise Smartglass SDK
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Augumenta has released new functionality to its Software Development Kit (SDK) for enterprise smartglasses applications. The platform now offers the integration of gesture control and smart surfaces, providing the basis for an enhanced and more productive user interface for augmented reality work spaces.The SDK is being used on a number of smart glasses, such as Google ...
Apple Updates Developer Human Interface Guidelines for Apple Watch
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple has updated its Human Interface Guidelines for the Apple Watch to help mobile developers better understand the foundations on which Apple Watch itself was designed and best practices for creating Apple Watch apps.These new Human Interface Guidelines provide an overview of the functionality behind gestures, force touch, digital crown, and side button. It also cover...
Sencha Releases Web App Lifecycle Management Platform
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Sencha, a provider of HTML5 desktop and mobile web application development technologies, has released the Sencha Web Application Lifecycle Management Platform., which facilitates a unified approach to application development including designing, rapidly prototyping, developing, testing, securely deploying and managing applications. Sencha’s Web Application Lifecycl...
MyScript Releases New Geometry Widget for iOS and Android
Friday, February 6, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
MyScript, a provider of handwriting recognition and digital ink management technology, has released a new Geometry Widget for iOS and Android, as part of its MyScript Shape Toolkit. The initial release targets secondary education mobile app use cases such as geometry assignments, lesson material creation, and educational games.The Geometry Widget features technology whi...
Microsoft Releases Latest Version of Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0 Public Preview
Friday, September 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released an updated version of the Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0 public preview. This new SDK includes more than 200 improvements to the core SDK. This release includes the Kinect Fusion tool kit, which provides higher resolution camera tracking and performance. The updated SDK also includes substantial improvements in the tooling, specifically around Vi...
SOASTA Announces Native App Support for Mobile User Monitoring
Monday, June 30, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
SOASTA, a cloud and mobile testing company, has announced it now offers native app support with its mPulse user monitoring solution, which now offers multi-dimensional views of user behavior whether on mobile web, web or native mobile applications. mPulse records precise mobile user gestures and actions to monitor native iOS and Android apps. Native app monito...
HTML5 App Development With Sencha’s Recently Released Ext JS 5
Thursday, June 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
Sencha’s recent release of Ext JS 5 is the “most comprehensive update to the framework since our inception” according to the company. The product provides an HTML5 development for desktop and mobile apps providing the ability to deliver desktop apps on touch-enabled devices using a single codebase.So Whats New?Unified Events Across Desktops and Touch-screen DevicesExt J...
Explore the Possibilities of Using Handwriting Recognition in Your App With MyScript's Superimposed
Friday, May 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
My Script's new SDK (Software Development Kit) allows third-party app developers to leverage handwriting recognition technology for natural human machine interface development on small surface devicesMyScript®, the acknowledged market leader in accurate, high-performance handwriting recognition and digital ink management technology, announces the release of MyScript Sup...
OnTheGo Platforms Launches Beta SDK for Smart Glass Augmented Reality Interface
Friday, April 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
OnTheGo Platforms has launched a new type of interface for Smart Glasses, called Ari (Augmented Reality Interface). The company points out that “Voice and touch control work well on smartphones, but smart glasses require a new, intuitive interface.” The companies Ari SDK uses a single outward facing camera to track a user’s hand motions and gestures, enabling ...
Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Are Updated
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update is now available to download. The March 2014 Update ships with a number of new features that improves support for Office 365 Cloud Business App and apps for Office/SharePoint in Visual Studio 2013 RTM. It also allows developers to build new types of apps for Off...
Fujitsu Introduces Smart Wearable Glove with Near Field Communication (NFC)
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
It’s too bad that Michael Jackson is not still around, because who else would be better to hawk a smart glove? Fujitsu will just have to find another spokesperson for its smart glove, equipped with a Near Field Communication (NFC) tag reader and that features gesture-based input for maintenance and other on-site operations.It’s actually a great idea. Fuji...
Adtiles Motion Ads Looks to Shake Up Native Mobile Ads
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Pretty soon, many of the most popular apps might just be elaborate ads, packaged to entertain, published to monetize.Adtiles is helping to blur the line between what is an integral part of an app and what is advertising with its Motion Ads product, a new solution that is being added to Adtile’s native iOS SDK, Design Desk and ad serving technology. Shake your ...
Enterprise Mobility and BYOA in 2014
Monday, January 6, 2014 by Tania Amar
Let’s get out the crystal ball, stir the tea leaves and see what lies ahead for enterprise mobility in 2014. With strategies figured out for BYOD, businesses will start focusing on BYOA - application. BYOA means that employees are bringing their own applications to work more efficiently and be more productive. While all leading industry analysts, like Gartner, Forrester...
Pebble Launches New SDK, Announces iOS7 Compatibility
Thursday, November 7, 2013 by Richard Harris
Pebble has launched SDK 2.0 as it continues to woo developers to its smartwatch platform. Unlike Samsung, who has severely limited developer access to its smart watch offering, Pebble is banking on developer support to drive revenues and ultimately make the usefulness of the device desirable enough to increase unit sales. The new SDK 2.0 introduction adds...
GestureWorks Game Control Software To Reinvigorate PC Games With Touch Virtual Controllers
Monday, September 16, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
GestureWorks has announced its new Gameplay software which offers a new way of interacting with popular PC games on Windows 8 driven devices. The software lets gamers use and build their own virtual controllers for touch devices. The controllers are overlaid on top of existing games.
The Gameplay software works with Windows 8 tablets, Ultrabooks, 2-in-1 laptops, all-...
