Yesterday, Google released an update to the Google Assistant on Android, which allowed it to transcribe the contents off of a web page and read it out loud to you.
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Google has released the first update to the Developer Preview of Android 11. Android 11 developer preview 1.1 doesn’t introduce any new features, just a plethora of new patches and bug fixes.
Google has released the first Developer Preview of Android 11, a month earlier than normally scheduled.
China’s Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo and Vivo are teaming up to create a developers platform outside China to upload apps onto all of their app stores simultaneously.
Huawei has postponed the annual Huawei Developer Conference (Cloud) (HDC.Cloud) due to safety measures for guests’ due to the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China.
Huawei today announced a new £20 million incentive to encourage software developers in the UK and Ireland to create apps and services for its mobile services unit.
Back in November of last year, , GitHub announced new native mobile apps for Android and iOS alongside several new features. While the iOS app was made available practically immediately, there has been a long delay on the launch of the Android app.
IKIN has announced it is creating an SDK for iOS holographic rendering, with professional services support from Unity Technologies.
Huawei's "Quick Application Center" has received a new update today, bringing supports for HMS services.
Being on the US government trade blacklist has created uncertainty over Google’s essential Android apps on Huawei products. In response, the company has been working on the alternative to Google Media Services (GMS), which customers are used to.
Apple has released the fourth iOS 13.3 developer beta for iPhone, which does not bring a host of new features to the mix and appears to add stability updates for bugs found in earlier 13.3 betas.
South African app developers are poised to benefit from the US$1 billion facility Huawei has invested to support developers across global markets. Following the investment, Huawei is launching its local developer programme, called Shining-Star, in South Africa.
Apple has rebranded and expanded its existing WWDC app With the launch of a dedicated Apple Developer mobile app. The app is an expansion of its existing WWDC app for Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, which it will eventually supersede.
During its annual Universe conference, GitHub announced new native mobile apps for Android and iOS alongside several new features.
Apple has released the first iOS 13.3 developer beta for iPhone, which does not bring a host of new features to the mix and appears to add stability updates for bugs found in 13.2 and earlier
Google has released Android Studio 4.0 Canary including an early developer preview of Jetpack Compose. The company released extended APIs for Android Jetpack and Jetpack Compose.
Huawei has been a long-time member of the Eclipse Foundation and contributed to a number of projects there. Today, the company announced that they are upgrading their participation to a strategic level.
Google has officially launched its new Google Play Pass in the US. Play Pass is a new subscription service that gives you access to more than 350 apps and games that are completely unlocked—all free of ads, in-app purchases and upfront payments.
Huawei unveiled its own open-source software ecosystem Friday with the goal of attracting global developers and players to use its system.
Huawei will unveil its Kunpeng Ecosystem Base and showcase its latest 5G development in Chengdu of China at the Asia-Pacific Innovation Day, scheduled to be held on Tuesday.
Google today released Android Studio 3.5, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), with a specific focus on “product quality.” This release is the last one under Project Marble, the name for an initiative Google announced late last year to improve Android Studio.
Huawei Developer Conference 2019 (HDC 2019) will be taking place between 9 to 11 August in Songshan Lake, Dongguan, China. The conference will be divided into three parts including the keynote speech, a technical forum and Codelabs.
Apple today unveiled several innovative technologies that make it easier and faster for developers to create powerful new apps. SwiftUI is a new development framework that makes building powerful user interfaces easier than ever before. ARKit 3, RealityKit and Reality Composer are advanced tools designed to make it even easier for developers to create compelling AR experiences for consumer and business apps.
Huawei has opened a global Android Q Developer Recruitment drive for beta testers, running now through June 30. Developers are invited to try out the latest Android test build on HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro and contribute to optimising and improving device compatibility of Android Q.
Samsung Linux on DeX app lets owners of specific Samsung devices “run” a full Ubuntu desktop on their device alongside Android. The feature was initially compatible with the Samsung Note 9 and the Samsung Tab S4 but support has now been added for the S9 & S9+, S10, S10e, S10+, S10 5G, S10 and the Tab S5e.
BlackBerry and WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems (WHIS) today announced a new embedded software platform that enables the development of safety-certified and mission-critical applications on heterogenous system-on-chip (SoC) processors.
Apple will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose from June 3 through June 7 at the McEnery Convention Center. Now in its 30th year, this year’s program will feature technical sessions, hands-on labs and guest speakers to provide Apple’s existing developer community and the next generation of app developers with the knowledge and tools to help turn their next great idea into reality.
Google has released Beta 1 of Android Q for early adopters and a preview SDK for developers, and you can install it on any of Google’s Pixel phones. This release will inevitably include ample bugs and half-finished features, but it’s the first glimpse of Google’s vision for the future of Android.
Apple has released the fourth iOS 12.2 developer beta for iPhone bringing updates for Apple TV. There is a new icon for Apple News app and a new glyph for Apple TV remote in Control Center.In addition, there is a new animation when invoking Apple TV remote in CC and a new remote glyph for Apple TV remote in AirPlay 2 interface.
Apple is now requiring all developers to use the company's two-factor authentication protocol to protect their Apple IDs. Apple has required new Apple Developer Program signups to have two-factor authentication enabled for a while now and this change is now being brought to all existing developer accounts.
Apple has released the second iOS 12.2 developer beta for iPhone bringing bug fixes to users running iOS 12.2 beta 1 and four brand new Animoji to choose from, adding a giraffe, shark, owl, and warthog.
Earlier, Apple revoked Facebook's iOS enterprise developer certificate for violating its Terms of Service, and Apple is now giving the same treatment to Google.
Apple has shut down Google's internal iOS apps for doing the exact same thing Facebook was doing—distributing enterprise apps outside of the company.
Cylance has announced the availability of application programming interfaces (APIs) as part of its endpoint detect and respond offering, CylanceOPTICS.
When it was first demoed at last year’s Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco, Linux on DeX generated significant buzz within the developer community by presenting a simple and convenient way to use Samsung DeX to build apps within a Linux development environment.
Apple is now rolling Public Links for developers, allowing them to more easily get valuable feedback on their apps before releasing them on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.
Developers can simply enable a public link for their app in App Store Connect that leads to an invitation to test in TestFlight. Share the link to let anyone discover the beta version of your app.
Appdome has announced that, as of today, all implementations available on Appdome are compatible with iOS 12. This ensures that you can get your Appdome-Fused apps ready for iOS 12 as soon as iOS 12 is released by Apple.
Samsung's remote testing solutions allow you to access an actual Samsung mobile device over the air and are exclusive and free to Samsung Developer Program members.
BlackBerry has released an update to the BlackBerry Spark Communications Platform for developers. The biggest change to this release (R6) is that developers no longer have to manage their own Key Management Service (KMS). When you create your domain, you now have the option to have BlackBerry Manage and distribute your cryptographic keys.
Square today launched the Square Reader SDK, giving Android and iOS developers the ability to use Square hardware to accept in-person payments directly from within their own application, with no app-switch required. With only a few lines of code, developers can quickly add EMV- and PCI-compliant in-person payments to any Android or iOS app.
BlackBerry released the BlackBerry Spark Communications Platform earlier today and to go along with the global release, the company is launching the first ever Spark Hackathon.
Spark Hackathon is open to developers 18 years and older from across the globe.
Back in February 2017, BlackBerry entered the Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) market with the introduction of its BBM Enterprise SDK, enabling developers to integrate secure messaging, voice and video capabilities into applications and services. However, the name didn't really do the development platform justice, and was re-branded to the BlackBerry Spark Communications Platform,.
Apple today introduced ARKit 2, a platform allowing developers to integrate shared experiences, persistent AR experiences tied to a specific location, object detection and image tracking to make AR apps even more dynamic.
Carbon Black today unveiled the Carbon Black Integration Network (CbIN), a technology partner programme designed to improve cybersecurity through collective defense and powered by Carbon Black’s open APIs and the Cb Predictive Security CloudTM (PSC).
Google has announced Android Studio 3.1 is now stable and available, featuring enhanced Kotlin support, smaller builds, recent IntelliJ platform updates and more. Since becoming a first-class programming language option along with Java and C++ last May, Kotlin has enjoyed popularity among developers and Android's core dev team.
Being a BlackBerry developer has always come with a lot of challenges. Even in the Enterprise sphere it has never been a straightforward task. As a developer I've questioned myself many times "is it worth it". Even as a BlackBerry 10 user, I've always felt ripped off "having" to pay for apps that were not only free, but legal on other platforms.
Twitter has announced changes to its API that will massively reduce the impact of services that allow links and content to be shared across multiple accounts, i.e. the software that powers Twitter bots. This should bring an end to services that let those controlling large numbers of accounts to batch tweet, follow users, retweet or like tweets.
BlackBerry has rolled out the BBM Enterprise SDK 1.1 for Android, iOS, and JavaScript, and the updates are now generally available to all developers.
AWS and Microsoft have announced a new deep learning library, called Gluon, that allows developers of all skill levels to prototype, build, train and deploy sophisticated machine learning models for the cloud, devices and mobile apps.
As we reported back in June, BlackBerry will be holding their 2017 Annual BlackBerry Security Summit event in London and New York to address the current situation and trends in secure enterprise mobility.
With BlackBerry's transition to a software company now complete, it is imperative that the company and its ISV partners are ready to support customers during the Apple iOS 11 and Android 8 Oreo upgrade cycles.
Google announced Android 8.0 Oreo yesterday and has now released the system images for Pixel phones, the Nexus 6P and 5X, the Nexus Player and the Pixel C.
BlackBerry and Appdome have announced they are enabling codeless integration of secure voice, video and messaging capabilities.
Appdome has joined the AppConfig Community, re-affirming its ongoing commitment to a secure and efficient mobile industry. AppConfig’s best practice feature-set can now be automatically integrated in apps via the Appdome platform...
Google has launched the fourth and final developer preview of the next version of its mobile operating system, currently code-named Android O.
Samsung today released the third developer preview of Tizen .NET, an application framework for Tizen app developers.
Google has launched the first developer preview of the next version of its mobile operating system, currently code-named Android O. As was the case last year with the first Android N Developer Preview, Google isn’t letting us know everything that will be included with Android O.
Google has released a new update to Android Studio, giving developers more features and enhancements to improve their apps. Android 2.3 features quality improvements as well as new features for each phase of the development workflow.
Earlier this month, we reported how BlackBerry had entered the Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) market with the introduction of its BBM Enterprise SDK, enabling developers to integrate secure messaging, voice and video.
BlackBerry and Appdome have announced they have enhanced capabilities to enable developers and enterprises to apply rich app-level security controls of BlackBerry Dynamics to existing apps without writing a single line of code.
BlackBerry entered the Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) market yesterday with BBM Enterprise SDK that will enable developers to integrate secure messaging, voice and video capabilities into applications and services.
BlackBerry entered the Communications Platform as a Service market today with the introduction of its BBM Enterprise SDK that will enable developers to integrate secure messaging, voice and video capabilities into apps and services.
Samsung today released the second developer preview of Tizen .NET, an application framework for Tizen app developers. Last November, Samsung announced a collaboration with Microsoft on .NET open-source projects such as .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms, and released the first preview of Tizen .NET.
Earlier this month, we reported how BlackBerry will be hosting the 'BlackBerry Developer Summit Europe' in London, this upcoming March. The company has now opened up registration for the the event.
Back in December, BlackBerry unveiled their new BlackBerry Development Platform, an enterprise grade toolset which enables developers to build secure, powerful and customized mobility solutions for almost every use case.
Google previewed Android Instant Apps at Google I/O last year as a new way to run Android apps without requiring installation. Google has been working with a small number of developers to refine the user and developer experiences.
BlackBerry's developer community in Europe has been pushing the company to hold their Developer Summit closer to home and the company has listened, as they will be hosting the 'BlackBerry Developer Summit Europe' in London.
BlackBerry has unveiled their new BlackBerry Development Platform, the first integration of the Good Developer Community. The BlackBerry Development Platform, is an enterprise grade toolset which enables developers to build secure, powerful and customized mobility solutions for almost every use case
Google has announced two updates to their IoT developer platform to make it faster and easier for developers to create smart, connected products.
Samsung today announced a collaboration with Microsoft on open source projects, such as .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms, to enable .NET support for Tizen.
Samsung today introduced its expanded SAMSUNG ARTIK™ Smart Internet of Things (IoT) platform featuring two new module families, ARTIK 0 and ARTIK 7.
BlackBerry has announced that they are to open up a chatbot application programming interface (API) for BBM, enabling new and existing businesses on BBM with a conversational interface
The existing Tizen SDK was released in accordance with the Tizen platform. Since there was an SDK program for each platform, this meant developers had to install several SDK programs if they wished to develop for several platforms.
Today at VRLA, the world's largest virtual reality expo, the team at Vive announced VIVEPORT, the destination for VR content and experiences.
BlackBerry has announced new releases of Good Dynamics SDKs for Android, iOS and Windows. The Good Dynamics Platform provides a range of SDKs and plugins.
BlackBerry have released BES12.5 as a service pack update for BES12. The update brings improved mobile device management in the enterprise,  new features to the management console, licensing and  Good Dynamics.
In an effort to generate some further enthusiasm for BlackBerry 10 developers, BlackBerry has announced the launch of a new "Developer Hero Program".
BlackBerry has announced that they have released beta autoloaders for 10.3.3 for developers. The release version of OS 10.3.3 is scheduled to be available mid June and will only contain NIAP certification and security updates.
Google has announced that they are adding Android apps to Chromebooks. Later this year developers can expand their app’s reach to a new hardware platform and wider audience while maximizing the Google Play ecosystem.
BlackBerry have announced the developer release of BlackBerry Integrity Detection (BID), a trusted/secure background process running at the system level, that monitors the device for known security vulnerabilities.
Back in March of this year, we reported how BlackBerry Secure Work Space users should not upgrade to iOS 9.3 due to compatibility issues.
Earlier this month, Google rolled out the second release of the Android N Developer Preview. At that time it was rumoured that Google would, allow other manufacturers to begin testing the software.
Google has today started rolling out the second release of the Android N Developer Preview. To allow developers to familiarise themselves with the new system before the May I/O conference, Google rolled out the first Preview last month.
LG has opened up the new LG G5, inviting developers to reimagine the possibilities for the modular design smartphone and companion devices.
Google has released Android 2.0 bringing support for Instant Run, an enhanced emulator and a whole lot more.
New innovations spanning Azure, Visual Studio and Office can help developers build cutting-edge apps, for every device, that help businesses and consumers achieve more.
Qualcomm today announced that it will be launching a new virtual reality (VR) software development kit (SDK).
Google has today started rolling out the Android N Developer Preview. Previously, Google wouldn't make this available until May during Google I/O.
BlackBerry has today unveiled BlackBerry Secure Connect Plus, using the BlackBerry Cloud Connector. For Enterprise Developers working with Hybrid environments, this is a feature that many developers have been waiting for.
QNX today demonstrated the QNX SDK for Bluetooth Connectivity, a new middleware solution for medical devices, industrial automation systems, consumer appliances, and other embedded system applications.
Cyanogen today announced at Mobile World Congress the launch of MODâ„¢, an integrated mobile platform that is going to change the way users, developers, OEMs, and MNOs build and interact with their mobile devices.
BlackBerry has announced a new way in which developers can get their apps highlighted within BlackBerry World.
Android Studio 2.0 Beta is now available in the Beta release channel for developers, bringing Instant Run, a new Android emulator along with a host of improvements that should speed up app development time.
Another BlackBerry 10 developer program is being dropped by BlackBerry as the company are to close the Built for BlackBerry Program on February 29.
Microsoft has anounced today that Matter Center, an Office 365 add-in and SharePoint-based document collaboration solution for legal professionals, is now available in GitHub.
Slackhas announced it’s teamed up with its investors Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, KPCB, Spark, and Social+Capital and together they’ve thrown in $80 million for a Slack-first fund.
Google has released an update to the Android Wear Software Development Kit (SDK) to include support for API 23 and Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
BlackBerry have announced a new Build for Google Play Store page has been added to the BlackBerry Developer Zone Website.
Mozilla has announced the availability of Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview, offering the operating system as an app on Android.
With the new BlackBerry Priv, BlackBerry's first ever android-powered smartphone, now publicly available, there has been a wealth of information for basic users on how to do the simplest things with the smartphone.
BlackBerry Priv is due to start deliveries from Friday and it looks like the company are going to be 100% compliant with the GPL and release the device kernel source code.
With the upcoming release of the BlackBerry Priv, BlackBerry's first ever smartphone powered by Android, there has been a lot of talk about the future of BlackBerry 10.
BlackBerry has announced that the Application Developers Alliance, BlackBerry and others will be hosting a 3-city event series aimed at promoting cutting-edge enterprise technologies.
Google has released the 1.4 update to the Android Studio stable release channel.  Android Studio 1.4 adds a new design tools, performance monitors, and developer services.
BlackBerry has announced that the refresh of their BlackBerry Developer Zone website is now complete and live.
Google and Udacity, an online education company, have announced the launch of a program to offer Android Nanodegrees in India.
Using the web clip feature in the enterprise space can be pretty useful as custom icons are placed onto user’s devices. Users tap the icons to access the company’s web portal or services in one easy step, without navigating through their bookmarks.
Microsoft has announced the release of Office UI Fabric, a new front-end framework for developers. Office UI Fabric is a responsive, mobile-first, front-end framework.
On Tuesday (August 25th), BlackBerry held a webcast "BES12 v12.2: What’s New for Enterprise Developers?". If you were unable to catch the webcast live, the replay is now available online.
Microsoft has announced that it is bringing new advertising and campaign tracking capabilities for Windows developers.
Google have announced the release of a new emulator tool for developers who want to target Android Auto. The DHU enables your workstation to act as an Android Auto head unit that emulates the in-car experience for testing purposes.
QT has announced the release of the final version of Qt Creator 3.5.0 bringing numerous new features and fixes bugs reported by testers during the development cycle of the 3.5 branch.
Earlier this year Google announced that the Android Development Tools (ADT) plug-in for the Eclipse IDE will be reaching its end-of-life at the end of 2015.
The latest iteration of BlackBerry Enterprise Server 12, v12.2 offers expanded multi-OS capabilities and many interesting opportunities for enterprise developers.
Google revealed today that the official name for Android M will be Marshmallow. To go along with the offical name, the company has released the Final M preview and the official Android 6.0 Marshmallow SDK.
Google has announced that they have completed the roll-out of Google Play services 7.8, adding two new APIs.
Project Astoria is a set of four new software development toolkits by Microsoft that will make it easy for developers to bring their code for the Web, .NET, Win32, iOS and Android to the Windows Store with minimal code modifications.
Microsoft has released an early look at the Windows Bridge for iOS (previously known as ‘Project Islandwood’). While the final release will happen later this fall.
Microsoft today launched Windows 10 in over 190 markets and are now providing developers the tools they need to submit Universal Windows Platform apps and games to a single unified Windows Store.
Microsoft have officially launched the latest version of  Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) together with an update to its .NET framework.
Last Thursday, BlackBerry hosted a webcast on how to create easy Mobile Web App Launchers on iOS, Android and BlackBerry 10 devices.
