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Android Apps Are Now Reviewed by Tools and Humans
Google has quietly introduced an app reviewing process that monitors new apps or updates for policy violations. This process uses automatic tools and sometimes human reviewers that add a few hours of delay in the publishing process.
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Android Lollipop for Visual Studio
The preview of Visual Studio 2015 has been updated to include an emulator for Android Lollipop, also known as Android 5.0. Along with the new SDK, Visual Studio also gained “OpenGL ES support, multi-touch input, and advanced camera simulation”.
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Creating Mobile Native Apps in JavaScript with NativeScript
Telerik has opened for public access NativeScript, a framework for creating native cross-platform applications for Android, iOS and Windows Universal.
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Mobile Survey Q1 2015: Platform Status, Swift Adoption and Revenue
The recently published survey, State of the Developer Nation Q1 2015, conducted by VisionMobile analyzes the key mobile developer trends including the status of mobile platforms, Swift and revenue.
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Google Play Services 7 Rollout has Begun
Google has announced the release of Google Play Services 7.0, which brings new APIs inside of Google Places, Google Play Games, Google Fit, and improvements to existing features.
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Google Releases gRPC, a HTTP/2 RPC Framework for Microservices
Google has opened sourced gRPC, a RPC framework used internally to connect cloud microservices. gRPC comes with support for 10 languages, making it attractive for creating back-end cloud services for mobile applications.
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How to Make Sure an App Works with Android for Work
Google has announced Android for Work, a program making it possible for users to take their Android devices and use in an enterprise environment.
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Silver Brings Apple's Swift Language to .NET and Android
RemObjects Silver is a “free implementation of Apple’s Swift programming language” aimed at making it possible to natively compile Swift code on the .NET, Java, and Android platforms in addition to Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. InfoQ has spoken with marc hoffman (sic), chief architect at RemObjects.
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Facebook Stetho: Debugging Any Android App with Chrome DevTools
Facebook has open sourced Stetho, an Android debugging bridge enabling developers to debug their apps using Chrome DevTools.
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Android Developers Now Can Test WebView before It Is Released
Google has made Android WebView available as a standalone application for developers willing to test it.
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Reapp - Hybrid Mobile App Development Using React
Over the past two weeks much hype has surrounded Facebook’s announcement of React Native, an extension to React.js that enables native mobile app development using JavaScript. Amidst the hype Reapp has launched , offering React enthusiasts an alternative approach to developing mobile apps.
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Microsoft Open Sources TouchDevelop Containing 160K LoC
Microsoft has open source their research project TouchDevelop, which contains about 160K lines of code mostly written in TypeScript.
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JUniversal: A Microsoft Tool for Porting Android Apps to Windows Phone and iOS
Microsoft has open sourced JUniversal, a tool for writing cross-platform mobile applications in Java.
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Facebook Enables Native App Development in JavaScript with React Native
Announced at last week’s React Conf, React Native is a version of the popular React JavaScript library targeted solely at mobile developers. On the surface React Native looks very similar to React, with JavaScript declarations of reactive user interfaces; but behind the scenes React Native interfaces are backed by platform specific native controls rather than DOM elements.
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Groovy 2.4 Released, Brings Full Android support
Guillaume Laforge has released Groovy 2.4, bringing full Android support. LaForge says the new Android support "allows developers to write Android applications fully using Groovy, with much less boilerplate code than raw Java."