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...
Telerik and Kendo UI R3 updates from Progress
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 by Richard Harris
Progress the provider of application development and infrastructure software, recently announced the R3 2023 release of Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI, the
most powerful .NET and JavaScript UI libraries and tools for application development. From modernizing legacy projects to building new applications, this new release equips developers with the tool...
Infragistics Ultimate 21.1 builds on enhancements for developers
Monday, June 21, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Infragistics announced the release of Infragistics Ultimate 21.1. The newest release breaks new ground in app design and developer collaboration with the world’s only digital product design platform, Indigo.Design, that lets teams build apps up to 10x faster.
Infragistics Ultimate 21.1 builds on three key themes:
Hyper-productivity enhancements for develo...
Faster customized chat experiences announced from Sendbird
Thursday, April 22, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Sendbird unveiled its latest tools for developers to bring industry-leading chat capabilities into their applications. Sendbird’s new Flutter SDK makes it easy for developers to build chat in Flutter applications. Because Flutter apps can extend across multiple platforms with a single code base, time to market to launch Sendbird Chat can be dramatically decreased....
Kendo UI Web development toolkit lands from Progress
Friday, September 27, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Progress, the provider of application development and digital experience technologies, has announced the latest release of Progress Kendo UI, the most complete UI toolkit for web development. The release includes a series of new components for Angular, React and jQuery, as well as major enhancements for some of its most popular existing components. &...
Next generation low code platforms snub citizen developers
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 by Sumit Sarkar
Analysts have touted the growth of high productivity application development platforms which are attractive to many enterprises unable to find the necessary digital talent. These evolving platforms, also described as no or low code, focus on increasing productivity over traditional software development by expanding the pool of talent that can deliver apps. Many professi...
Angular 7 highlights, improvements, and gotchas
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
Google recently announced its new Angular 7, which has been noted as a major release spanning the entire platform, including the core framework, Angular Material, and the CLI with synchronized major versions. These benefits along with more, such as CDK virtual scrolling capabilities and drag & drop feature, have developers excited to dive in. Carl Bergenhem, a Produ...
Telerik developer tools get many new .NET components
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 by Richard Harris
Progress announced the latest release Telerik tooling for .NET developers. With the new release, Progress now offers over twenty new Telerik components and expands the most popular components, including Grid and Charts. It also adds new themes including a Material inspired theme and a Mac inspired Crystal theme.
Progress has released new components including:
Web:...
Making chatbots seem more human with a new conversational UI
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 by Richard Harris
Progress announced the availability of Conversational UI, a packaged set of user interface (UI) components built specifically for chatbots. The components, as part of the popular Telerik and Kendo UI developer tooling, enable .NET and JavaScript developers to create enhanced natural conversational experiences across platforms and devices, on many chatbot frameworks - in...
Ember talks about their JavaScript framework
Friday, March 30, 2018 by Richard Harris
The EmberConf, now in their 5th year, recently took place in Portland where all things Ember were talked about during the 3 day event. There was advanced Mirage training, Broccoli.js tutorials, chats about progressive web apps, and lots of talk about Ember.js - especially the new release of 3.0.Tom Dale, a senior staff engineer at LinkedIn, is one of the founders and cr...
Mendix releases Atlas UI
Thursday, December 28, 2017 by Richard Harris
Mendix has announced the general availability of Atlas UI. Integrated into its low-code platform, Atlas UI enables developers without front-end development or UI design skills to create engaging, and highly usable user interfaces. With Atlas, an organization's UI/UX team can define a standardized design language to promote design best practices across multiple, autonomo...
IDERA acquires Sencha to provide web developer tools
Tuesday, August 29, 2017 by Richard Harris
IDERA, Inc. has announced an agreement to acquire Sencha, a web application development platform. Sencha will be integrated with Embarcadero, IDERA, Inc.’s developer tools division.Sencha’s Web Application Development Platform empowers companies to design, develop and test cross-platform web applications for desktops, tablets and smartphones. IDERA also noted that "in r...
Kendo UI Builder v2 is now compatable with Electron Shell framework
Monday, August 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
Progress has announced the latest version of Progress Kendo UI Builder, a responsive web UI toolkit for rapidly delivering beautiful and intuitive web experiences. The new release introduces browser compatibility with Electron Shell, an extended library of built-in templates, the ability to customize screens with Blank View and enhanced data connectivity.“Today, the ult...
JavaScript apps get Arxan application protection solution
Friday, February 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
Arxan Technologies, a provider of application protection and management solutions, has announced Arxan Application Protection for JavaScript, a new offering that provides leading protection for JavaScript-based applications, including hybrid iOS and Android apps, in addition to web apps. The comprehensive solution is designed to prevent brand damage, financial loss, IP ...
The A to Z of lowcode app development
Friday, February 10, 2017 by Karthick Viswanathan
As we enter 2017, we are seeing low-code app development take root across larger enterprises and smaller businesses alike. In 2016, big players like Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce staked their claim in this market segment. Enter 2017, and we can expect the new entrants, along with incumbents such as WaveMaker, Mendix and OutSystems, to beg...
Angular and VS 2017 support from Progress comes with new UI components
Thursday, February 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Release of Telerik DevCraft R1 2017 enhances offerings for modern web and mobile UI developmentProgress announced the latest release of the Progress Telerik DevCraft suite, a complete UI toolbox for web, mobile and desktop development. New capabilities support the latest programming frameworks and IDEs, including Angular, Visual Studio 2017, jQuery 3, ASP.NET Core and X...
Angular 2: What's good, what's bad, what's next
Thursday, October 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
Angular 2 is the full-platform successor to Google’s Angular 1 web application framework, made for building complex applications in browsers and beyond. First announced in October 2014, the complete and final version of Angular 2 was just released in September 2016. Angular 2 is a big step forward for the Angular framework, but how exactly is the second edition of the f...
Oracle Launches Project Visual Code to Empower Citizen Developers
Friday, September 23, 2016 by Richard Harris
Oracle unveils Project Visual Code, a cloud-based platform for low-code application development. Using the platform, customers can now quickly and easily build and publish personalized, stand-alone applications or extend existing applications by using a visual interface that requires very little code. Features include:Builder: A visual tool for creating and hosting...
Sencha Releases Latest Java Based Framework for Building HTML5 Web Apps
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
Sencha has released Sencha GXT 4, the latest update to the company’s Java framework for building HTML5 web applications. This release is focused around support for touch and gestures for tablets and touch screen laptops.Sencha GXT offers UI components that are interoperable with native GWT (formerly Google Web Toolkit) components. These components include HTML5 grids, t...
Oracle Offers New Cloud Products for JavaScript and Java Developers
Sunday, November 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Oracle has released new cloud offerings that extend its product line with new services, toolkits and updated frameworks for JavaScript and Java developers. The new offerings are designed to facilitate application development, delivery and deployment for polyglot software development ecosystems.Oracle’s new cloud products offer a set of services, toolkits and development...
Fuse Releases Cross Platform UX Tool Suite
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Fuse has announced that its UX tool suite is out of beta and now available for download. One of the advantages of the platform is its ability to provide developers with a prototyping tool that outputs working native code, instead of slideshows and GIFs.In closed beta for a year, the Fuse platform allows developers to create user experiences for native mobile apps. It us...
Sencha Releases Web App Lifecycle Management Platform
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Sencha, a provider of HTML5 desktop and mobile web application development technologies, has released the Sencha Web Application Lifecycle Management Platform., which facilitates a unified approach to application development including designing, rapidly prototyping, developing, testing, securely deploying and managing applications. Sencha’s Web Application Lifecycl...
Amazon Updates Web App Starter Kit for Fire TV
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon’s Web App Starter Kit for Fire TV is an open source project intended to help developers get up to speed on creating simple media-oriented apps for the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The Starter Kit provides a basic media app template that is designed for the 10-foot user experience and includes UI controls, support for the Fire TV remote, sample UI compon...
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...
New Version of Kendo UI Suite Released for Javascript and HTML5 Lovers Everywhere
Friday, November 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Telerik announced today its newest release of its Kendo UI suite that delivers an improved version of the popular JavaScript and HTML5 framework. The improvements to the Kendo UI suite resolves many of the current challenges that developers face with data manipulation. The company currently serves an innovative app community of 1.4 million developers.The Kendo UI s...
Rover Mobile App iBeacon SDK Offers Developers Integration with a Few Lines of Code
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 by Richard Harris
Rover Labs is offering a new iBeacon SDK platform that allows developers to integrate a complete context aware retail experience into an existing mobile app. While a customer is within a store, the Rover Platform enables the app to understand the customer's precise location, what they are looking at and how long they've been there. The platform is comprised of a mobile ...
GrapeCity Updated Wijmo 5 Expands Line of HTML5 and JavaScript Products
Friday, October 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
GrapeCity Developer Tools has released its latest version of Wijmo 5 expanding GrapeCity's line of HTML5 and JavaScript products for enterprise app development. The Wijmo family offers JavaScript Controls (Wijmo 5), classic jQuery Widgets (Wijmo 3) and a spreadsheet component (SpreadJS)."Touch First, Mobile First, was our mantra when setting out to create a set of true ...
Embarcadero Technologies RAD Studio XE7 for Cross Platform Development
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has launched Embarcadero RAD Studio XE7, a solution to build connected apps for Windows, Android, iOS, OS X, gadgets, and wearables. The new XE7 version of RAD Studio enables Delphi/Object Pascal and C++ developers to extend existing Windows applications and build apps that connect desktop and mobile devices with gadgets, cloud services, and ent...
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 ...
AppGyver and built.io Team Up for Enterprise App Development Using HTML5
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
AppGyver is combing its front end tools with built.io’s back end to offer a new option for enterprise app development using HTML5.AppGyver’s Steroids SDK utilizes native UI components with navigation and animations, together with the HTML5 wrapped application to create hybrid apps. AppGyver Prototyper can be used to build app prototypes which can be tested and demo...
HTML5 App Development With Sencha’s Recently Released Ext JS 5
Thursday, June 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
Sencha’s recent release of Ext JS 5 is the “most comprehensive update to the framework since our inception” according to the company. The product provides an HTML5 development for desktop and mobile apps providing the ability to deliver desktop apps on touch-enabled devices using a single codebase.So Whats New?Unified Events Across Desktops and Touch-screen DevicesExt J...
What You Need to Know About APIs to Build Mobile Applications
Sunday, June 1, 2014 by Ronnie Mitra
If you are building a mobile application, it’s likely that you’ll end up implementing some form of a backend integration to make your app work. Although there are some mobile apps that live on isolated islands of connectivity, most apps need to talk to backend servers to deliver the user experiences that modern users want.The need for backend connectivity stems from the...
Intel’s Updated App Framework 2.1 JavaScript Library for HTML5 Mobile App Development
Thursday, April 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Intel App Framework JavaScript library is a cross-platform UI library built for mobile HTML5 apps. The UI styles in this library are designed to adapt to a target platform (Google Android, Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows 8, and new RIM Blackberry devices) so apps can have a target-specific look and feel. The App Framework library also includes an optiona...
ShieldUI Updates Reportivo Reporting and Sharing Service for JavaScript and HTML5 UI Components
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
After their recent announcement of the addition of 12 new controls to their JavaScript and HTML5 UI components suite, ShieldUI is now in the final stages up updating its Reportivo online reporting and sharing service to utilize these controls.Reportivo.com is a free online service designed to help users analyze data and create insightful reports...
Weekly Roundup: 1b Apps on Metaps, Apple Arrives in Brazil, HP Access Catalog, Glass Etiquette, Amazon Coins, And Mobile Privacy
Saturday, February 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
Mobile App Privacy Policy: Do You Have One?What’s wrong with collecting personal information? In short – nothing. Commerce has always been about a mutually beneficial exchange; providing products and services in return for cash or an equivalent value exchange. New business models such as free-2-play or ad-funded content have accelerated the growth of the data-fuell...
