Here's what happened at VisionMobile's Future Developer Summit
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
VisionMobile hosted a first of its kind, Future Developer Summit, on October 4, 2016 in Santa Clara. The event was organized in association with Catchy Agency and was hosted by Intel at their Executive Briefing Center. The Future Developer Summit is an exclusive, invite-only Director-level event where developer relations leaders gather to network, exchange program...
FacebookConnected Apps Must Now Support Certificates Signed with SHA2
Monday, June 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
Facebook is updating its encryption requirements for Facebook-connected apps which means that apps that don't support SHA-2 certificate signatures will no longer be able to connect to Facebook starting on October 1, 2015.Facebook’s Adam Gross in a recent post on the Facebook developer blog:These changes are part of a broader shift in how browsers and web sites encrypt t...
F8, Facebook's Developer Conference, Will Be a Two Day Event Held on March 25–26, 2015 in San Francisco.
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Facebook F8 developer conference dates for 2015 have been officially announced for March 25–26, 2015 in San Francisco. The event is going to be held over two days instead of just one (last year the event was held for just one day in April). Because Facebook's developer community is bigger today than it ever has been, and the scope of the company's products has ...
Facebook F8 Developer Conference Kicks Off
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Hot on the heels of its First Quarter 2014 report last week, Facebook is hosting its F8 annual developer conference this week in San Francisco.There will be a lot for Mark Zuckerberg to talk about in his keynote as Facebook’s Q1 report shows the company is taking a deep dive into driving its mobile revenues.To understand why mobile is so important, take a look at these ...
f8 Facebook Developer Conference is Two Weeks Away
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
f8 2014, the official developer conference, is April 30 at The Concourse in San Francisco and will feature discussions from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as well as developers from Instagram and Parse. If you’re in the San Francisco area you can sign up to attend the event and if you won’t be in town you can experience the event through live streaming. M...
Facebook Open Sources Tweaks Rapid Prototyping Tool for iOS App Development
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Facebook has open sourced on Github its Tweaks rapid prototyping tool which provides an easy way to fine-tune an iOS app.According to Facebook: The best way to improve an app is to use it every day. Even when ideas can be tested out in advance — for example, with Origami — it can still take some time with the app to see how it works in practice.Occasional...
Parse Introduces Bolts! An Open Source Library Making Building Apps Even Easier!
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
Bolts is a collection of open-source, low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier. The first components of Bolts is "Tasks", which makes it easier to write asynchronous code. Using Bolts does not require using any Parse or Facebook services, nor does it require having a Parse or Facebook developer account. Simply download the jar or framework file...
Facebook Is Testing a New Way to Help App Developers Monetize
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The world is not enough for Facebook. At least, not its current slice of the world’s ad revenue. In a post that just appeared on the Facebook developer blog, it appears that the social network giant is taking steps to analyze the potential for expanding its reach by delivering ads to third party apps.At least that’s what it sounds like to me. But I’ll let you decide for...
Facebook Add App Ads for Mobile User Engagement and Conversion
Thursday, December 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Facebook has released three new updates to make it even easier to create mobile app ads, reach existing users, and drive people back into an app.
Developers can now create mobile app ads for engagement and conversion from Facebook’s Ads Create tool, offering a simpler way to set up engagement campaigns (to roll out the week of Christmas). Developers will still hav...
Facebook Announces Video Ads and CPA Model for Buying Mobile App Ads
Friday, October 25, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
It seems that Facebook just won’t slow down in expanding/enhancing its advertising opportunities for app developers. This week the company announced new opportunities for video ads and CPA buying for mobile app ads. The new services are targeting developers need to increase app installs and maximize resources targeted to user acquisition campaigns.
According to the Fa...
Facebook Acknowledges App Outages
Thursday, August 15, 2013 by Richard Harris
On August 13 several developers reported that their Facebook app integration was no longer functioning, now we know why. Service has been restored since but Facebook is offering an explanation about the outage and what they are doing to prevent it from happening again in today's blog post on their website."On August 13th, a number of Facebook developer accounts and apps...
Facebook SDK 3.7 for iOS is Now Available
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 by Richard Harris
Facebook released it's latest SDK for iOS version 3.7 this week, which includes many updates such as automatic error handling that should help developers spot problems between their app and Facebook sooner. Also in the update is a refresh of the login screen UI which is what is presented to users inside your app when interfacing with the social shar...
Facebook Home: A Trojan Horse for Future Changes
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 by Richard Harris
As an app developer watching the Facebook Home platform roll out to the public, there is an underground river of questions I have as it pertains to the overall concept itself. Things like, will there eventually be a Facebook app store that could diminish the overall Android Play store? Will there be a VoIP part of the device? What about all of the Facebook Games al...
