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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.
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RAD Tool Kony Visualizer 7.0 Adds Support for Wearable and IoT Apps, Free Starter Edition
Kony Visualizer 7.0, Kony’s code-less mobile app design and development tool, introduces support for wearable and IoT apps and adds a Starter version that is free to download and use.
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UK's Ofcom Allocates VHF Radio Spectrum for Internet of Things Communication
The United Kingdom's Office of Communications has confirmed that spectrum within three VHF (Very High Frequency) radio bands "can be used for Internet of Things (IoT) services and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications." The statement is the result of months of study, during which commentary from stakeholders and interested parties was sought and considered, resulting in a detailed OfCom statement.
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Android N Combines AOT, Interpretation and JIT
Android N introduces a hybrid runtime using compilation + interpretation + JIT to obtain the best compromise between installation time, memory footprint, battery consumption and performance.
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Apple and FBI Court Appearance Postponed
The court appearance between Apple and the FBI, originally scheduled for later today, has been postponed a week until after Easter, following a request from the FBI to defer.
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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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Apple Fixes Security Flaw in iOS 9.3
Today, Apple released iOS 9.3 at a special event held at Apple's headquarters which fixed a number of security bugs with the mobile OS, including several with remote code execution and an iMessage encryption bug. InfoQ investigates.
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Accelerite's Location-as-a-Service API Platform Enables Location-Based Mobile Services
At this year's Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Accelerite announced its new Location-as-a-Service (LaaS) API Platform. The platform enables mobile operators and enterprises that rely on mobile connections to aggregate location information, and react accordingly to situations as they arise.
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How Facebook Designed its Android App for Emerging Markets
In order to fulfill its vision of connecting the Earth, Facebook has designed its Facebook Lite app for Android to make it optimized for use in emerging markets, Facebook engineer Gautam Roy explained.