Open source software turns 20
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
First let me say in full disclaimer that I love open source software and initiatives, and I come from the enterprise world as it where in 1998. The days where IT budgets were as fat as overfed guppy goldfish, and open source tech was barely used in production environments. Open source source software has always had the same set of challenges following closely behin...
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...
ActiveState Just Released Komodo IDE for Mobile
Friday, September 9, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
ActiveState has announced the latest release of its Komodo IDE for mobile and web development which offers support for multiple languages, including for Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS, Node.js, Golang, Ruby, Perl, Tcl, and a variety of other languages and frameworks.
With the release of Komodo IDE 10.1, the platform expands its support for An...
Red Hat's Mobile App Platform Includes New Push Notification Capabilities
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The main focus of the recently released Version 3.6 of the Feed Henry’s (which is now owned by Red Hat) cross platform Mobile Application Platform (MHP) is the integration of the Aerogear UnifiedPush Server into the platform which provides improved iOS, Android and Windows Phone push notification functionality. Also new is Windows 10 support.With the UnifiedPush Server ...
Microsoft's Azure Mobile Engagement SaaS Platform Receives New Functionality
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has released the latest version of its Azure Mobile Engagement service which offers a SaaS-delivered, data-driven user engagement platform that enables real-time fine-grain user segmentation, app user analytics, and contextually-aware smart push notifications and in-app messaging across connected devices. Azure Mobile Engagement has SDKs available for Apple iO...
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...
What is New in the Recent Release of Visual Studio 2015
Friday, July 24, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft just released the highly anticipated Visual Studio 2015 just in advance of the impending Microsoft 10 release. Here is a rundown on what’s new for VS 2015:Cross-platform mobile device support - Android, iOS, and WindowsOut of the box, Visual Studio allows developers to use web technologies to build production quality mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows us...
Amazon Releases New Cross Platform Plugins for Unity, Adobe Air, and More
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon has developed a number of plugins for cross platform tools to allow mobile developers utilizing the Amazon platform to access Amazon Services without the need to write boilerplate code to bridge cross platform code with native language Amazon APIs. Amazon has recently released several new plugins for Apache Cordova, Unity, Adobe Air, and Xamarin to allow dev...
Latest Version of WinJS 4.0 Released Out of Preview
Thursday, June 18, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Preceding the upcoming release of Windows 10, Microsoft has released WinJS 4.0 out of preview. WinJS 4.0 supports the latest versions of browsers, including the new Microsoft Edge. WinJS is an open-source JavaScript library to use for building HTML, CSS, and JavaScript applications for the Windows Store with a consistent look and performance across all Windows devi...
Telerik Launches JavaScript Open Source Network for Web Developers to Build Native Apps
Monday, March 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Telerik announced the beta availability of NativeScript, an open source framework enabling developers to use JavaScript to build native mobile apps running on all major mobile platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android and upcoming for Windows Universal. The NativeScript framework is designed to be familiar to developers who are comfortable with web technologie...
Apache Cordova 3.6 Release Includes Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 Support
Thursday, October 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
The team at Apache Cordova has announced the release of Apache Cordova 3.6, adding enhancements to one of the top go-to platforms to create native like mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.This release includes the support of Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 apps. The release introduces a new unified ‘Windows’ platform to build apps targeting Windows 8.0,...
Red Hat Releases Latest Version of JBoss Developer Studio for Open Source Java Application Development
Thursday, October 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
Hot on the heels of its acquisition of FeedHenry, Red Hat has announced a new developer subscription program and resources for members of the JBoss Developer community. In conjunction with the announcement, Red Hat has launched the next version of its integrated development environment, JBoss Developer Studio. The new JBoss Developer program is a no-cost subscripti...
VMware’s AirWatch Launches AirWatch AppShield for Mobile App Security and Management
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
VMware’s AirWatch has introduced the AirWatch AppShield which utilizes the AirWatch SDK and the AirWatch App Wrapping engine to provide users with security and management capabilities. AirWatch also has announced the charter mobile application management platform (MADP) providers that interoperate with AirWatch AppShield.AirWatch provides the ability to containerize app...
Genuitec Takes GapDebug Tool for PhoneGap and Apache Cordova into Public Beta
Thursday, July 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
After a couple of weeks of private beta, Genuitec is taking its GapDebug tool for PhoneGap and Apache Cordova into public beta.GapDebug provides the ability to “plug and debug” mobile apps. It is a single source platform to perform cross-platform testing on iOS and Android mobile apps. GapDebug eliminates the need to bounce back and forth between iOS...
Oracle Updates Mobile Suite for Enterprise App Developement
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
Oracle has announced updates to its Oracle Mobile Suite, the company’s solution for development and deployment of mobile applications across multiple mobile platforms, and works with disparate enterprise systems.The latest release features a new cross device mobile development framework, Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF), which can simplify the development ...
Microsoft Previews Hybrid App Development Opportunity with Visual Studio Tooling for Apache Cordova
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Among a number of announcements, Microsoft announced a preview of Visual Studio tooling for the Apache Cordova platform, allowing developers to build multidevice hybrid applications using their HTML and JavaScript skills.Visual Studio developers can build Windows, iOS and Android native applications with .NET and Xamarin or hybrid applications with Apache Cordova. Micro...
FeedHenry Offers New Enhancements to Mobile Cloud Offerings Including mBaaS and API Management
Thursday, May 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
FeedHenry has introduced FeedHenry 3, the latest version of its mobile cloud that offers new features around its core mBaaS and API management, role-based development, team collaboration and support for a wide range of app development frameworks including Backbone, Angular and Xamarin. The platform now offers increased support for a range of client app develop...
PhoneGap Releases PhoneGap Developer App
Friday, April 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
PhoneGap has introduced the new PhoneGap Developer App, which can help lower the barrier of entry to creating PhoneGap applications. Users can now immediately preview an app on a device without installing platform SDKs, registering devices, or even compiling code. The app is available on iOS, Android and soon for Windows Phone.The app provides the ability to develo...
New Version of Ludei CocoonJS Provides PhoneGap Alternative for Developers to Compile HTML5 Apps
Saturday, April 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Ludie has announced CocoonJS 2.0, the latest version of its platform which allows developers to compile HTML5 apps.With CocoonJS 2.0 developers can compile their project in the Canvas+, Ludie’s accelerated canvas to accelerate a game, or WebView+, the Chromium-based WebView able to run DOM-based games and apps. This allows developers to take advantage of each ...
Mozilla Announces New Dual Core App Developer Reference Phone, Firefox OS PhoneGap Integration
Monday, February 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
It’s going to be a week of announcement overload as companies try to maximize their access to media at the Mobile World Congress so hold on as a cornucopia of mobile news is served.Mozilla joins the fray with a number of announcements, including a 4.5-inch dual-core reference phone, enabling developers to test new Firefox OS features and apps against different memo...
Reports Surface that Google Will Allow Developers to Port Apps to iOS and Android from Chrome
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Developers could soon port their existing Chrome apps to Android and iOS. The Next Web’s Emil Protalinski is reporting that Google is in the process of creating a toolkit allowing developers to create Chrome apps for iOS and Android as well as port existing Chrome apps.
According to the report, “The toolkit will help developers create Android and iOS hybrid native apps...
Oracle Releases Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile
Friday, May 24, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Oracle ADF Mobile Release 1.1 adds support for device-native push notification, new device integration infrastructure based on Apache Cordova, full file attachment viewing, updated mobile operating system support, and improved performance, enabling the development of more advanced mobile applications.
Part of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle ADF Mobile is a cr...
