New iOS and macOS Updates: What VPN Users Need to Know
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
Apple rolled out its newest operating system updates – iOS 10 and macOS Sierra. The new updates brought about a lot of exciting new features and upgrades. Apple’s mobile and Mac software is now more integrated: for example, Siri assistant has arrived on the computer. Users are also excited about the Universal Clipboard that allows to choose photos from iPhone and direct...
Appboy Now Offers Android Push Notifications in China through Baidu Cloud
Monday, June 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
With China adding 460 million smartphones in 2014, app publishers are going to find it’s a market that they really can’t afford to ignore. To help developers penetrate the market, Appboy has announced support for Android push notifications in China through Baidu Cloud Push. In a statement released recently, the company commented, “In most of the world, apps sending...
Google Play Services 7.5 Offers New APIs, Security and More
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 by Richard Harris
Google Play Services 7.5 was announced at Google IO offering new capabilities and optimizations to devices across the Android ecosystem. Included in the release is the addition of Smart Lock for Passwords, Instance ID, new APIs for Google Cloud Messaging and Google Cast, as well as access to the Google Maps API on Android Wear devices. The 7.5 SDK is now available for d...
HashiCorp Launches Vault Security Platform for Cloud Environments
Friday, May 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
HashiCorp has launched Vault, a new tool for securely managing secrets and encrypting data in-transit. From storing credentials and API keys to encrypting passwords for user signups, Vault is being offered as a new solution for security in cloud environments.Vault secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secret...
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...
Amazon Provides App Developers New Monetization Opportunities with Changes to Amazon Device Messaging (ADM)
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
At its simplest, the current app markets concept provides a platform for developers to write applications and market them directly to consumers. In reality, monetizing apps in a cluttered marketplace has become increasingly difficult. So the owners of app markets (Google, Apple, Amazon, etc.) who do the best job of greasing the wheels for developers will ultimately garn...
Updates to Google Cloud Platform Include New Version of Mobile Backend Starter and Google Cloud Endpoints GA Version
Monday, November 11, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
As the Google Cloud continues to woo developers, an announcement has been made that Google Cloud Endpoints has now moved to general availability and a new version of Mobile Backend Starter is now available.
Google Cloud EndpointsGoogle Cloud Endpoints helps developers build their own backend offering a simple way to create, expose and consume APIs served from App Engin...
