Topic: mobile development
Microsoft shares info on developing for Surface Duo 2
Microsoft yesterday announced its new Microsoft Surface Duo and is now inviting developers to start building or enhancing apps for dual-screen devices. The best way to start is by using Jetpack Window Manager, according to Guy Merin, the senior director of engineering at Microsoft, in a blog post. It has a FoldingFeature class providing device-specific … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Ionic Capacitor 3, Firefox Site Isolation Security Architecture, and Splunk to acquire TruSTAR
The latest version of Ionic’s open-source cross-platform native runtime for building Progressive Web Apps, and iOS, Android desktop applications is now available. Ionic Capacitor 3.0 comes with new features aimed at improving developer experience, performance and native platform support. The solution was first introduced in 2019 as an alternative for developers using Apache Cordova and … continue reading
IoXt extends security compliance program for mobile apps and VPNs
In an effort to standardize mobile security, 20 different companies in collaboration with the Internet of Security Things Alliance (ioXt) worked on adding a new set of security and privacy requirements for mobile apps and VPNs. Google, Amazon, NowSecure, NCC Group, DEKRA, Onware Security, and 7layers are among the companies who helped contribute to the … continue reading
Empower remote testing teams through real mobile device access
The use of mobile devices to access applications has jumped to an all-time high, making up 56% of all website traffic this year, yet most companies with remote testing teams are struggling with proper device access and the ability to replicate customer bugs, according to mobile testing company Kobiton. Web conversion rates on mobile wind … continue reading
Mobile native development gets new foundation
The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of the Mobile Native Foundation (MNF) with a mission to foster collaboration and improve processes and technologies. MNF is a place where developers can collaborate on open source software, standards and best practices. “The mobile developer community is innovating and we know that open source and collaboration can … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Bullet Train
This week’s featured open-source project is Bullet Train, which enables developers to manage feature flags across web, mobile, and server side applications. The application consists of three components: the Server-Side REST API, the Front End Administration Web Interface, and Client Libraries. The Server Side API is written in Python and is based on Django and … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Android Studio 4.1, Cloudflare One, and Twilio acquires Segment
The latest release of Android Studio includes new features that address common editing, debugging, and optimization use cases. A major theme for the 4.1 release is to help developers become more productive while using Android Jetpack libraries to help developers follow best practices and to write code faster, the team explained. Some highlights include a … continue reading
Amazon announces no-code solution Honeycode
Amazon is joining the no-code space with the announcement of Honeycode. The new solution is designed to make it easier for developers to build mobile and web applications with no programming required. Instead of relying on methods like emailing spreadsheets or documents, Honeycode enables developers to use a simple visual application builder and to utilize … continue reading
SD Times news digest: JFrog ChartCenter, GitLab 13.1, and Hasura Cloud public beta announced
JFrog released ChartCenter, a free, central repository of public Helm charts for the developer community. Developers can search among thousands of Kubernetes-ready packages to find the ones they need and discover and launch applications distributed across many public repositories. “Your Helm CLI can pull all the public Helm charts you use from a single, central … continue reading
Analyst View: The coming mobile disruption
There are three technologies that not only will massively impact Smartphone but they are going to have a major impact on PCs as well. They are 5G, Wi-Fi 6, and foldable screens. Combined, they should expand what we can do with mobile devices, change the performance limitations that currently define them, and do interesting things … continue reading
Firebase Summit 2019 kicks off with new mobile and web development tools
Google’s Firebase team announced Firebase Extensions, Google Analytics integration and stronger app testing tools at its fourth annual Firebase Summit in Madrid this week. The new Firebase Extensions is designed to help developers save time on repetitive app development tasks. The extensions are pre-packaged bundles of code that automate common tasks such as resizing an … continue reading
Google Developer Days: Dart 2.5 comes packed with new developer features
Google Developer Days kicked off in China this week with new features and updates for the developer community. The stable release of Dark 2.5 SDK was announced with technical previews of major developer features. The technical previews included ML Compete, a machine learning-powered code completion capability, and a foreign function interface for calling C code … continue reading
