Crafting modular Angular apps with standalone components
Thursday, March 7, 2024 by Richard Harris
There are major enhancements in server-side rendering, tooling, and reactivity that are available with the latest Angular 16.0.0 release. But one of the biggest improvements is undoubtedly the introduction of Angular Standalone API because it boosts our ability to develop reusable UI elements and libraries while simultaneously reducing boilerplate modules.
Crafting m...
Building Better SDKs
Friday, January 14, 2022 by Nathan Darst
Nathan Darst is the Director of SDK Engineering for Kochava, a real-time data solutions company offering the leading omnichannel measurement and attribution solutions for data-driven marketers. Darst talks about building better SDKs, integrating them, using an SDK in code, what good APIs look like, and a ton more.
You've written some amazing code; so amazing...
Crypto APIs launch MPC Wallet as a Service
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
The Bulgarian-based Software-as-a-Service startup Crypto APIs has launched an improved Wallet as a Service (WaaS) to provide small and medium businesses, enterprises, and institutions with a more secure and reliable multi-currency digital wallet.
Crypto APIs launch MPC Wallet as a Service
The service utilizes an advanced Multi-Party Computation (MPC) cryptographic...
Free mobile maps and traffic tiles for developers from new TomTom SDK
Thursday, September 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
When Google Maps increased the prices developers have to pay for the privlage of using them, many a developer went scurrying to find alternatives because even though there is a bit of "credit" they apply to your account, charges climb very quickly.
But at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, TomTom has announced that it will offer free maps and traffic tiles on its ...
Appdome integrates into the AppConfig community
Monday, August 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Appdome, a cloud hub for mobile app integration, has joined the AppConfig Community, re-affirming its ongoing commitment to a secure and efficient mobile industry. AppConfig’s best practice feature-set can now be automatically integrated in apps via the Appdome platform, all without any code or coding. App Publishers (ISVs) and enterprise app developers can add AppConfi...
IBM is building a quantum computing system
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
IBM announced an industry-first initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computing systems. “IBM Q” quantum systems and services will be delivered via the IBM Cloud platform. While technologies that currently run on classical computers, such as Watson, can help find patterns and insights buried in vast amounts of existing data, quantum co...
AirVisual's new air pollution data API is now available for developers
Tuesday, January 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
AirVisual is a company that provides the tools and information people need to thrive in polluted environments. By employing big data, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies, AirVisual delivers user-friendly, simple solutions to optimize health and well-being, both indoors and out.They just recently launched a groundbreaking new way to visualize...
SAP HANA express edition and key benefits developers should know about
Saturday, October 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
SAP, a large independent software developer, has released it's latest edition of HANA, an in-memory computing PaaS, called HANA express edition. SAP HANA can be used as an on-premise appliance, or for building and deploying to the cloud. A great tool for any real-time application development or analytics projects. The SAP HANA express edition gives developers all of th...
Solving the Twin Problems of Speed and Access in Payments
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 by Dave Matter
People want payment to be instantaneous and painless. While that may never be absolutely true, the industry is getting better. What’s driving these improvements are two interconnected trends: shrinking latency and the decline of the walled garden. Working together, the payments community has the ability to create a faster, better industry – and ultimately a ...
WaveMaker Adds Security Enhancements to Its Rapid Application Development Platform
Friday, July 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
WaveMaker has announced two new security enhancements to its enterprise-class Rapid Application Development platform. The WaveMaker platform now supports Single Sign-on for WaveMaker-built and deployed applications using Central Authentication Server (CAS), which permits users to access multiple applications by providing credentials such as UserID and password only once...
HP Launches OpenSwitch Community and Linux Based Network OS
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
HP Networking has launched the new OpenSwitch community and a new open source network operating system (NOS). HP, with the support of Accton Technology, Arista, Broadcom, Intel, and VMWare, are offering the community-based platform that provides developers and users the ability to build data center networks customized for unique business applications.The newly for...
Google Play 8.1 Release Supports Android M Permissions Model
Monday, September 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Google has released Google Play services 8.1 offering a number of updates including a new Android 6.0 Marshmallow permissions model.Android 6.0 Marshmallow PermissionsAndroid 6.0 Marshmallow offers a new permissions model allowing users to control app permissions at runtime. For apps running on the M Preview that support the new permissions model, the user does not...
Are You Losing Sleep Over REST API
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 by Sammy Tam
REST API provides values in the places where it actually makes sense, and not because it is technologically chic.In this day and age, “buzzwords” have been developed for almost everything. Since the web is full of information available to everyone pretty much everywhere, these terms are often picked up within relevant communities and greatly hyped. The software eng...
Apigee Offers New Lightweight Service for Managing Internal APIs
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Apigee has announced its Apigee Edge platform now supports a hybrid cloud architecture through a new capability called “Apigee Edge Microgateway.” With the introduction of Edge Microgateway, Apigee enables businesses to optimize the performance, availability and capacity of their API systems by deploying Apigee Edge on a self-service public cloud, on-premises infr...
Sense360 SDK Expands Mobile Location Aware Technology Capabilities
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Sense360 offers an SDK that provides the ability for an app to automatically and in the background detect when and what users are doing in the real world. Using this capability allows developers to build automated experiences that react to where users are and what they are doing. The platform can help app publishers monetize and market their mobile apps.The SDK manages ...
Companies Battle to Push Out New Applications at an Accelerated Pace
Friday, June 12, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
A new study of companies across the globe indicates that enterprise are paying close attention to the need to create better and more expansive applications and do so at a faster rate than ever before.The study was commissioned by CA Technologies and conducted by Oxford Economics. It surveyed 200 senior business and IT executives with knowledge of and responsibility for ...
Apple Makes New App Analytics Tools Available to Developers
Thursday, May 21, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple has released its new App Analytics which, according to Apple, provides the ability to “Measure user engagement, marketing campaigns, and monetization for your iOS apps with data you won’t find anywhere else.” The analytics platform is included with the iOS Developer Program membership and requires no technical implementation.Developers can use the analytics to cal...
K2 Releases Application Integrations to REST Endpoints
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
K2 has announced OData and Swagger REST support, enabling those using the company’s K2 Appit and Blackpearl products to build solutions based on workflows and forms that can access existing data in the cloud or on premise.K2 offers a low code platform which allows users to create customized business applications using workflows and forms that stretch across roles, depar...
New Startup Mode Announces the Release of its IoT Cloud Platform
Monday, May 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
San Mateo, California based startup Mode has announced the introduction of its new IoT cloud platform that connects mobile applications with hardware devices in real time. The platform provides a cloud API for devices, mobile clients and application servers. IoT developers can utilize MODE as the backend infrastructure throughout the entire development cycle, from proto...
Applivery Offers Prerelease Distribution System for iOS and Android Apps
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
Applivery is a new platform for distributing iOS and Android applications for beta testing beyond the traditional testing model. It allows app developers to create white label distribution sites customizing the distribution method (public, registration or password protection).Developers get an app URL - applivery.com/yourapp - that provides the opportunity to manage app...
Microsoft Releases Azure App Cloud Service to Build Web and Mobile Apps
Saturday, March 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released the Azure App Service, a new cloud service that enables developers to build web and mobile apps for any platform and device. App Service is an integrated solution by Microsoft to help developers streamline development while enabling integration with on-premises and SaaS systems.The Azure App Service brings together the capabilities from Azure Webs...
Upgrade to Facebook Graph API v2.0 or Your App Will Break
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 by Richard Harris
Facebook’s Graph API v2.0 is the new Login and a Login Review process where Facebook looks at and approves any permissions that your app requests beyond public profile, e-mail and friend list. The clock is ticking for all apps requesting these additional permissions to undergo review by April 30, 2015, when Facebook will deprecate Graph API v1.0. Not doing so could...
VidyoWorks Launches API for Smart Glass App Development
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
VidyoWorks for smart glasses is a solution that enables hands free video communication and collaboration for augmented reality and see-what-I-see applications. VidyoWorks delivers a scalable video coding (SVC) platform offering error resiliency and the ability to combine workflow integration, performance and scalability to deliver a wearable visual engagement solution.&...
Next Generation Email Management Platform Unveiled By Vade Retro
Thursday, November 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Vade Retro, a European based graymail management company recently launched the world's first Graymail Management platform in the United States. The next-generation email management platform was developed to filter out Graymail in the US. Graymail is an email which the user might have subscribed to and does not want to receive further messages. Email has become a to...
Facebook Provides Developers New Ads API Access Levels
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Facebook has announced a new approach to how new developers access the Facebook Ads API. With this new onboarding process, Facebook will help new developers get started on the API and guide them through the development lifecycle with these three new access levels which include:1) Development: Try out the Ads API and test apps on the Facebook platform.2) Basic: Further t...
Temasys Communications Announces Commercial Availability of its WebRTC plugin for Internet Explorer and Safari
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Temasys Communications has announced the commercial availability of its WebRTC plugin for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari browsers. WebRTC brings rich, high-quality real-time communications, powered by WebRTC, to users of the desktop versions of Internet Explorer and Safari. The new licensing-based model is aimed at service providers and applicatio...
Google Play Services 5.0 Release: What’s Inside
Thursday, July 10, 2014 by Richard Harris
Now that Google Play services 5.0 has rolled out to devices we’ll take a peek at what it means for app developers. This release introduces Android wearable services APIs, Dynamic Security Provider and App Indexing and provides updates to the Google Play game services, Cast, Drive, Wallet, Analytics, and Mobile Ads.Android Wearable ServicesGoogle Play services 5.0 introd...
Woofound Becomes Traitify Launches Personality API Combining Big Data and Psychology
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Traitify has announced the launch of its Personality API as well as its official rebrand from Woofound to Traitify – reflecting its broader vision to make personality actionable within apps. The API utilizes Traitify’s core technology and allows developers to leverage their user’s personality to facilitate customer personalization. The embeddable Personality API i...
Amazon Guarantees App Developers $1.50 CPM for Banner Ads in March and April
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Amazon Mobile Ads service has announced that it is guaranteeing $1.50 cpm (up to 2 million impressions per app per month) on banner ads during March and April 2014 for serving mobile ads through the Amazon Mobile Ad Network.To qualify for this offer, developers will need to integrate the Amazon Mobile Ads API into their apps and send the first ad request b...
Distimo Makes API Free to All App Developers
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 by Richard Harris
Distimo has announced that new and existing users can now access their API to track app market data at no charge. The API can be used for gathering analytics, analyzing market trends or generating leads.
Using the API, Distimo App Analytics users can access data like downloads, revenues, rankings and reviews for their own apps, which can be broken down by country, cont...
Google Chromecast Device Released
Sunday, July 28, 2013 by Richard Harris
Googlecast lets you cast apps from your device to the TV and it's Google’s latest foray in an effort to dominate the big screen. The device can be controlled by a phone or tablet running on Android or iOS, or a laptop running Chrome OS, Mac OS, or Windows. And at a cost of just $35 who wouldn't want one?How does it work? A sender application running on the mobile device...
Pebble Reaches 275K in Preorders, Best Buy Sold Out, Developers Look for SDK Improvements
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
As Pebble rolls out its smartwatch inventory, supplies have been scarce as demand has exceeded the company's ability to supply the phone. The phones sold at Best Buy are already gone, and of the 275,000 people that preordered watches directly from the company, the company reports that 93,000 have been shipped.
As the watch's distribution continues to grow, the...
