In celebration of the Play Store’s 10th birthday, Google has announced upcoming updates to benefit both developers and customers. It will raise the bar for quality, by promoting high-quality apps in the store. To facilitate this, it is introducing new quality thresholds for app developers to meet. Two new Core Vitals that will be measured … continue reading
Visual Studio is Microsoft’s integrated development environment (IDE) that is used by developers all around the world. According to Stack Overflow’s 2022 development survey, 32% of developers preferred Visual Studio as their IDE, coming in second to the more lightweight IDE Visual Studio Code, which was used by 74% of respondents. Given its popularity, we’re … continue reading
New promising programming languages are popping up constantly. Some do rather successfully – take Rust and Go as popular success stories. And yet, despite the excitement around new languages, it’s still the tried and true older languages that rank at the top of survey lists when it comes to what is most in use: Java, … continue reading
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) is hosting its CD Summit at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022 in Detroit, Michigan. At the event, the CDF announced a number of major milestones across its projects. First, it announced that it welcomed the decentralized package network, Pyrsia, into the foundation as an incubating project. Pyrsia was developed by JFrog … continue reading
The Android development team has announced a number of new updates to help developers maximize their productivity when developing for Android devices. The announcements come from the annual Android Developer Summit, which is happening today. Much of the news revolves around Jetpack Compose, which is a UI toolkit that the team released over a year … continue reading
Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, has announced Ubuntu’s latest interim release. Ubuntu 22.10, also named Kinetic Kudo, focuses mainly on the IoT ecosystem. “Connected devices are an exciting area of innovation that also create new digital risks in the home and the business. We are focused on enabling a new generation of easy to use … continue reading
Rookout has announced the release of new IDE plugins for its developer-focused observability and debugging platform. Now developers will be able to connect to JetBrains, which will enable them to catch issues even earlier in the debugging process. The plugin can be used with any JetBrains IDE, including IntelliJ, PyCharm, Webstorm, and Goland, among others. … continue reading
The Node.js team has released Node.js 19, which updates the V8 JavaScript engine to version 10.7 and enables HTTP(s)/1.1 KeepAlive by default. Version 10.7 of the V8 JavaScript engine adds to the JavaScript API the latest version of Intl.NumberFormat, which lets developers create a formatter instance that is reusable and that supports locale-aware number formatting. … continue reading
Google is launching new features to make it easier for app developers to better display their app in the Play Store. “The assets and information you provide – descriptions, images, and videos – are essential to users looking to make a decision on what to download,” Allison Chang, product manager for Google Play; Weifang Sun, … continue reading
Microsoft has added a new component to its Dual-screen layout library for supporting Navigation Rail on foldable devices, such as the Surface Duo. Navigation Rail is a Material Design component that provides a side navigation bar for app destinations. On devices with foldable screens, a challenge arises in making sure that UI elements aren’t obscured … continue reading
Cloud Seed is a new open source project developed jointly by GitLab and Google Cloud. It allows developers to provision Google Cloud services right from within GitLab’s UI. “We believe that it should be trivial to deploy web applications (and other workloads) from GitLab to major cloud providers. To support this effort, Cloud Seed makes … continue reading
Microsoft Ignite ‘22 kicked off today, both virtually and in-person in Seattle, WA. To start the event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stage to provide a keynote address. He laid out the five core imperatives that Microsoft is focused on, and then provided updates for each of them. They are as follows: Enable companies … continue reading
