With more than 1.5 billion monthly active users (MAUs), Facebook has a lot of factors to take into account for each mobile release. If they followed mobile “best practices,” they’d have some pretty significant problems: Deploying to millions of users in one fell swoop (greatly increasing the risk of widespread crashes) Asking users to update … continue reading
There’s a new open-source blueprint that aims to give developers a place to kick-start their mobile product development for Android and iOS, all built with React Native and Redux. Named Pepperoni, the development team behind this open-source project has been working for more than 10 months trying to build apps and learning the best ways … continue reading
To understand how developers feel about technologies that support their e-commerce needs, Four51 commissioned a study by Forrester Consulting, revealing that modern developers are more involved in e-commerce solutions at their organizations. Developers believed they will be developing in Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaS) more so than Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), with the amount of their on-premise solutions decreasing. Four51, … continue reading
Virtual reality headsets can let users play games and enter different worlds, but Oculus is putting VR to good use with its VR for Good program, where philanthropic and socially beneficial projects can get started. With this program, Oculus is looking for 10 rising filmmakers to match with 10 nonprofits so they can tell stories … continue reading
A new Apache Software Foundation project called Milagro is currently incubating, and as of this week, it has received contributions from MIRACL, NTT Innovation Institute and NTT Labs. The organizations contributed authentication code to Milagro as a way to establish a new Internet security framework made of cryptographic service providers called Distributed Trust Authorities. The … continue reading
The Visual Studio team has been trying to find where documentation for some workflows could be improved, and how it could improve setting up TypeScript projects. As a result, there are now communities for each set of tools that will give users an idea of how TypeScript can fit in with a “standard” setup. The … continue reading
Progress announced the latest release of the open-source framework NativeScript today, allowing developers to build native mobile apps with JavaScript on all major mobile platforms. NativeScript 2.0, which is open source and backed by Telerik, allows Angular developers to write native mobile applications for Android and iOS using Google’s Angular 2 JavaScript framework. Developers can … continue reading
Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, is giving more insight on how the company plans to work with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality for moving toward what he called “an AI-first world.” In a Founders’ Letter posted on Google’s official blog today, he also proposed a plan for how the company can continue to make … continue reading
The 300-pound humanoid robot that NASA wants to use for space exploration has arrived at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) this week. Researchers at CSAIL, led by CSAIL principal investigator Russ Tedrake will program their new “Valkyrie” robot to autonomously perform challenging tasks that would allow it to replace or help astronauts … continue reading
If a flurry of startup activity is any indication, the Internet of Things is upon us. And yes, there are real-world big-money IoT projects out there gaining traction—though they may be outnumbered by hobbyist Arduino mods and IFTTT-connected light switches. However, if you haven’t gotten on board yet, you haven’t missed much. Platform manufacturers are … continue reading
Apple has created a new section of its App Store for developers so they can share how they succeeded on it, and to show other developers what they have learned in the process. On Developer Insights, the section of the App Store designed for developers, there is a planning section that helps developers plan and … continue reading
GoPro has unveiled the GoPro Developer Program as a way to support companies that want to develop a better user experience. The GoPro Developer program was debuted at a private event in San Francisco. The program has been working with developers in a variety of companies, as well as a bunch of startups. “Over the … continue reading
