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Google ML Kit Adds Entity Extraction and Selfie Segmentation
The new Entity Extraction API, now available in beta, enables analyzing text inside of an app to detect different textual entities such as dates, URLs, payment cards, and so on. Selfie Segmentation aims to make it easier to add effects to pictures.
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MediaPipe Introduces Holistic Tracking for Mobile Devices
Holistic tracking is a new feature in MediaPipe that enables the simultaneous detection of body and hand pose and face landmarks on mobile devices. The three capabilities were previously already available separately but they are now combined in a single, highly optimized solution.
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Google Opens Fuchsia to Public Contributions
Four years after open sourcing Fuchsia, its new capability-based operating system aimed at IoT and mobile, Google has announced the project will now accept contributions from the public.
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Bazel Will Be the New Build System for the Android Open Source Project
Google has announced that the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which provides the foundations for all Android-labelled OSes available in the market and more derivative OSes, will transition to use Bazel as its new build tool.
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Just AI Launched Open-Source Kotlin-Based Conversational Framework
Just AI Conversational Framework (JAICF) provides a Kotlin-based DSL to enable the creation of conversational user interfaces. JAICF works with popular voice and text conversation platforms as well as different NLU engines. InfoQ has spoken with Just AI’s solution owner, Vitaliy Gorbachev.
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Android Studio 4.1 Includes New Database Inspector, Integrated Emulator, TensorFlow Lite Bindings
The latest version of Android official IDE, Android Studio 4.1, is now stable. Besides introducing a new database inspector, integrated emulator, and better TensorFlow Lite support, it improves integration with Dagger and fixes over 2,000 bugs.
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Ionic Vue Enables Developers to Write Cross-Platform Mobile Applications with Vue 3
Liam de Beasi recently released Ionic Vue, a native Vue version of the Ionic Framework that leverages Vue 3’s new features. Following Ionic React released last year, Ionic Vue is a step forward in the realization of the vision set forward with the web-components-based Ionic 4 (code-named Ionic for Everyone).
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ARCore 1.20 Brings Persistence and Global Localization to Cloud Anchors
Two years ago, Google introduced Cloud Anchors in ARCore 1.2 to enable collaborative AR experiences across devices. In its latest release, ARCore removes a limitation in Cloud Anchors by providing support for full persistence. Additionally, ARCore 1.20 integrates with Google Earth to make it easier to find AR content.
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Swift 5.3 Brings New Language Features, Better Developer Experience, and Improved Performance
Swift 5.3, which has recently become available with Xcode 12, includes a number of significant new features at the syntax level, including support for multi-pattern catch clauses, increased availability for implicit self, and more. Additionally, the Swift team has worked on improving runtime performance, especially when using SwiftUI, and developer experience.
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iOS 14 Now Available, Developers Forced to Rush to Submit Apps
Apple has released the first public version of iOS 14, which brings a number of new features such as app clips, widgets, improved Swift UI, ARKit, Core ML, and more. Developers received the iOS and Xcode GM version a mere 24 hours in advance, though, which led to some frustration.
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NativeScript 7 Moves from ES5 to ES2017+
NativeScript 7 aligns with modern JavaScript standards by targeting es2017+. Additionally, it streamlines app configuration by consolidating it in a single file and replaces JavaScriptCore with V8 for iOS apps.
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ML Kit Pose Detection Brings Body Movement Tracking to iOS and Android
Initially available under the ML Kit early access program, Pose Detection is now officially part of ML Kit. The library is capable of tracking the human body, including facial landmarks, hands, and feet.
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eBay Rearchitected Android App to Leverage App Bundles and Dynamic Feature Delivery
eBay engineers worked with Google to rearchitecture and reimplement their mobile app to take advantage of several new technologies, including Android app bundles (AAB) and Kotlin. They also took the chance to improve test automation, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and overcome global infrastructure limitations.
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Kotlin 1.4 Brings New Language Features, Improved Compilers and Tools
Kotlin 1.4 focuses on improving performance and tooling. It also contains a number of new language features, including single abstract method (SAM) conversion for interfaces, explicit API mode, and more.
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How the Gojek devX Team Handled Challenges with Mobile App CI
The developer experience (devX) team at Gojek recently described how they tackled challenges around scaling the development and integration of Android and iOS mobile apps. They emphasized the importance of segregating pipelines for providing faster feedback.