The Parse SDK Is Now Open Source
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
Facebook’s Parse has announced that it is open sourcing all of its SDKs, with iOS, OS X, and Android SDKs available now, and other SDKs to be open sourced in the near future.In addition to open sourcing their SDKs, Parse is also opening up its developer support flow. The new SDK support flow utilizes GitHub Issues, where developers can interact directly with Parse and o...
Amazon's New API Gateway Offers New API implementations on AWS
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon’s new API Gateway is a pay-as-you-go service which offers the opportunity to build and run application backends and connect applications to API implementations that run on AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), or a publicly addressable service hosted outside of AWS. The platform allows companies to implement APIs that wrap around, enhance, and effe...
Facebook Releases Updated Graph API Plus New iOS and Android SDKs
Friday, July 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
Facebook has released Graph API v2.4, its fifth versioned API release since the company committed to versioning their core APIs and SDKs last year. Facebook is also releasing updated iOS and Android SDKs designed to work with Graph API v2.4.Here are the primary updates in this Graph API version:- New Insights for Page videos: v2.4 includes additional metrics in the Page...
Ascend Media Launches iOS and Android Offer Wall SDKs
Thursday, July 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Ascend Media has announced the availability of iOS 8 and Android SDKs for its AdWall offer wall technology. A Unity SDK is expected to roll out later this year.The AdWall offer wall platform offers a rewards-based monetization solution on websites and app. The platform provides revenue stream opportunities from in-game or in-app items, bonus levels, virtual currency, an...
Magnet Systems Launches Apache Open Source Solution for Messaging in iOS and Android Apps
Thursday, May 28, 2015 by Richard Harris
Magnet Systems has introduced Magnet Message, an Apache open source solution that allows developers to build messaging into any iOS, Android or hybrid mobile application. Magnet Message provides a robust set of functionalities right out of the box, including push messaging, in-app chat, rich message payloads, message delivery confirmation, and publish-subscribe cap...
Facebook Releases Marketing and Monetization Goodies for App Developers at F8
Friday, March 27, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
At the kickoff of its F8 developer conference, Facebook announced a broad number of products and tools to help developers build, grow, and monetize mobile apps.In attendance were more than 2,500 developers. Facebook announced that its developer community has doubled in size, and there are now hundreds of thousands of developers working with Facebook around the world wit...
Parse Launches Mobile App Crash Reporting and Local Datastore for iOS
Monday, December 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
Parse has recently introduced two new products: Crash Reporting for iOS and Android, and Local Datastore for iOS.Parse Crash Reporting provides the ability to register, track, and resolve crashes in apps. The Parse team notes that there are a number of third-party crash reporting tools available but say their crash reporting platform is a way to reduce the complex...
Facebook Introduces Graph API v2.2 and Updates iOS and Android SDKs
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
Facebook continues its commitment to release changes to its platform through versioning, and has announced the next version of the Graph API: v2.2. In addition, Facebook is releasing updated iOS and Android SDKs designed to work with API v2.2.Facebook v2.2 builds on v2.1 with a number of improvements, particularly for apps that manage Pages, and includes the ability to ...
Microsoft Announces New Office 365 REST based APIs plus iOS and Android SDKs
Friday, October 31, 2014 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced has announced three new Office 365 capabilities for developers: 1) general availability of new Office 365 APIs for mail, files, calendar and contacts; 2) new mobile SDKs for native app development, and 3) visibility for developers’ apps through the new Office 365 app launcher. The new Office 365 REST-based APIs for mail, files, and calendar ...
Duo Security Releases API Edition as well as iOS and Android SDKs for Two Factor Authentication
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Duo Security has released its Duo API Edition for cloud and mobile software providers to protect user account access. Duo API Edition enables developers to add two-factor authentication to their applications with Duo Security automatically handling of all of the operational aspects of authentication, such as key management and provisioning, alerting and reporting, self-...
Facebook Release Graph API v2.1 and Offers New iOS and Android SDKs
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
At f8 2014, Facebook announced a new version of their Graph API v2.0. The company also announced that moving forward, the primary way they would release changes to their platform would be through new API versions. Their rationale is that versioning provides a 2-year stability guarantee for Core APIs and gives developers control over when they upgrad...
Intel Releases Beacon Mountain for Android
Friday, May 24, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Intel has released the Beacon Mountain development environment for Android apps on Intel Atom and ARM processor-based devices. Supporting Jelly Bean it runs on Microsoft Windows 7 and 8, 64-bit host environments. The tools are compatible with Eclipse and support popular Android SDKs including the Android NDK. Intel says that it will release the Apple OS X version l...
