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Google Announces Firestore, a Document Database
Google has announced Cloud Firestore, a document database for mobile, web and server applications.
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First Android Instant Apps Are Available
Google has made available a number of applications as Instant Apps in order to gather user feedback. The SDK is to be made available to all later this year.
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Firefox Focus, a Private Web Browser for iOS
Firefox Focus is a new web browser for iOS that blocks many ad and content trackers by default. Along with its minimal, single tab UI, the browser offers privacy and speed.
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Spotify Wants To Be Good at Failing
Spotify wants to be really good at getting it wrong quickly and optimized for experimentation, said Marcus Frödin, director of engineering at Spotify. At Spark the Change London 2016 he presented a concept to learn from mistakes and breed success and gave examples of failures at Spotify and how they learned from them.
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Gluon Announces Full Java 9 Mobile Initiative
Gluon is making Java 9 development available to iOS and Android developers in the form of their Gluon VM project, a full Java 9 native port.
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Android Developers Invited to Get Ready for Chrome OS
Google is close to bring Play to Chrome OS, making Android applications and media available to Chromebook users.
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Google Makes Android Apps Run without Install
Google has announced Android Instant Apps during Google I/O keynote, enabling applications to run without having to install them first.
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Angular 2 Reaches Release Candidate at ng-conf 2016
At the 2016 ng-conf, Brad Green and Jules Kremer took the Keynote stage to show off a little bit of the new Angular 2 Release Candidate and showcase some of the new features and community efforts.
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Apple Releases Swift 2.2 for OSX and Linux
Today Apple released Swift 2.2 as part of Xcode 7.3 for OSX, along with official binaries for Swift 2.2 for Linux. InfoQ looks at what's new and what having a production release of the runtime will have for Linux on the Server.
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Jevgeni Kabanov and Sten Suitsev, from ZeroTurnaround, Talk about JRebel for Android
After announcing the first stable release of JRebel for Android, InfoQ reached out to Jevgeni Kabanov, founder and CEO of ZeroTurnaround, and Sten Suitsev, Product Manager of JRebel for Android, to find out more about what lead to the creation of this product and what might be coming next in their pipeline.
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Mobile Cross-platform SDK V-Play Adds Material Design, Map-based Apps and More
Mobile cross-platform SDK V-Play Apps has recently introduced support for Android Material Design, improved the creation of map-based apps, and added new styling features.
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ZeroTurnaround Announces JRebel for Android 1.0
ZeroTurnaround has announced the first stable release of JRebel for Android, the Android version of their popular plugin to modify running applications without having to redeploy or restart. JRebel for Android is available for Android Studio, and supports all phones and tablets running Android 4.0 or later. ZeroTurnaround offers a 21-day free trial, with prices beginning at $49/year.
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Microsoft CodePush Aims to Enable Instant Updates for Cordova and React Native Apps
Cordova and React Native developers will be able to deploy mobile apps updates directly to their iOS and Android devices thanks to CodePush, Microsoft say. CodePush includes a cloud service and an SDK to make it possible to update JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and image resources so apps can retrieve their latest versions. Compiled code, though, cannot be updated on the fly.
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Apple to Open Source Swift Language
Apple has announced at WWDC 2015 that they will open-source Swift 2.0 under a permissive open-source license, the object-oriented/functional language released at last year's WWDC, and the standard libraries and compilers will run on iOS, OSX and Linux. Furthermore Apple has simplified the developer programs, allowing developers to build iOS, OSX and watchOS applications with the same membership.
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Ionic Releases 1.0, Next Version to Support AngularJS 2.0
Ionic has released the production ready version 1.0, and has started work on the next version that will be built on AngularJS 2.0. Also, soon a number of mobile services –Push, Deploy, Analytics, Package - will be made public.