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OSRAM Sylvania Opens Lightify REST API to Developers
OSRAM Sylvania recently announced that it is now offering the developer community an open REST API for Lightify that developers can integrate into their own iOS and Android apps and web sites. Lightify is an Internet of Things (IoT) combination of hardware, the cloud, and your mobile device. Using OSRAM's free iOS and Android apps, you can control the light settings of your Lightify LED lights...
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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 Firebase - a Complete Back-End Solution for Mobile and Web
Google has introduced a new version of Firebase at I/O 2016, the platform offering a comprehensive solution for creating a back-end infrastructure for mobile (iOS and Android) and the web.
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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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Swift 3 Will Not Have a Stable ABI
Apple’s Chris Lattner, original creator of the Swift language, has recently announced on the Swift Evolution mailing list that ABI stability, one of the goals originally planned for Swift 3, will be postponed.
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Amazon's Limited-Edition Amazon Web Services Internet of Things Dash Button
Amazon announced the AWS IoT Button, a "Limited Release Programmable Dash Button" -- which immediately sold out on the first day of its availability: "The AWS IoT Button is a programmable button based on the Amazon Dash Button hardware. This device is easy to configure and designed for developers to get started with AWS IoT and many other Amazon Web Services without writing device-specific code."
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Buddy Presents IoT-Enabled Lego City at Internet Of Things World 2016
The third Internet of Things World Conference took place in Santa Clara, California, USA on May 10-12. The star of the exhibition hall may have been the Australian start-up Buddy's booth, which presented a demo of Buddyville, a smart city built with 13,000 Lego pieces, its power monitored by IoT smart sensors and managed by the Buddy Platform's scalable backend data services technology.
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DIGIT Act Defines Framework for U.S. Internet of Things Policy
The Commerce Committee in the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the "Developing Innovation and Growing the Internet of Things (DIGIT) Act." The bi-partisan bill requires "the establishment of a working group tasked with identifying proposals meant to facilitate IoT growth." The bill follows up on a March 2015 resolution that called for a national Internet of Things strategy.
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CareKit is Apple’s New Open-source Health-oriented Mobile App Framework
Following on from the announcement at the March 2016 “Let us loop you in”, Apple has open sourced its new CareKit framework, aimed to make it easier for developers to create apps that help people manage their medical conditions. Along with the new framework, Apple has also made available four iOS apps that use it.
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Intel Open Sources Arduino 101 Real Time OS
Arduino announced that Intel has released Arduino 101 real time operating system (RTOS) for hacking and studying purpose.
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Apple Requires WatchOS 2 for All New Watch App Submissions
Apple has announced that new watchOS apps submitted after June 1, 2016 must be native apps built with the watchOS 2 SDK or later. Furthermore, Apple has refreshed its review guidelines for the App Store.
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Using Swift to Build Code for Android
A “Port to Android” pull request that has been recently merged into the official Swift repository master branch makes it possible to create simple programs for Android. The pull request added an Android target for Swift stdlib and allows developers to use a Linux environment to cross-compile for Android on the ARMv7 processor.
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Combining Angular 2 with React Native
Angular 2’s architecture makes it possible to render an application with various renderers including React Native.
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New in Android Studio 2.0: Instant Run and Cloud Test Lab
Android Studio 2.0 comes with several new features and improvements: Instant Run, integration with a Google service for testing on real devices, faster emulator, faster builds, GPU profiler and debugger, support for deep linking and others.
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Capital One Launches Developer Platform
Capital One launched the DevExchange Beta developer site and initial API offering last month.