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Ionic Capacitor: Creating Native Applications with JavaScript
Capacitor is a new development framework by Ionic for hybrid application creation. Capacitor provides an alternative to Apache Cordova, a well-established solution first released in 2009.
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Akamai IoT Edge Connect Brings MQTT to its Serverless Edge Platform
Akamai IoT Edge Connect, part of Akamai Edge Cloud, provides a fully managed service for the operation of IoT devices with auto-scaling, failover, and data synchronization. InfoQ has spoken with Lior Netzer, vice-president and CTO of IoT at Akamai Technologies.
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Core ML 3 Extends Available Model Types, Adds On-Device Model Retrain
Announced at WWDC 2019, Core ML 3 introduces a number of new model types, many new neural network layer types, and adds support for on-device retraining of existing models using new data generated locally by the user.
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Ionic Introduces Stencil One, Targeting Fast, Reusable UI Components and Apps
The Ionic Framework’s new “Stencil One” compiles to optimized Web Components and progressive web apps. Developers may write a component once, and reuse it in any framework – Angular, React, Vue, Ember or with plain vanilla JavaScript, by adjusting the Stencil compiler options. Stencil One also provides pre-rendering, automatic component documentation, Hot Module and Style Replacement, and more.
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ARKit 3 Brings People Occlusion, Motion Capture, and More
ARKit 3, recently announced at WWDC 2019, moves further into the direction of more immersive augmented reality experiences by adding support for integrating people with virtual objects and injecting human motion into the AR experience. Other new features in ARKit 3 are multiple face tracking, support for simultaneous use of front and back camera, and collaborative sessions.
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Apple Announces Declarative SwiftUI Framework for Leaner, Faster, Interactive App Development
Apple recently announced at WWDC 2019 the SwiftUI framework for application development across the iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS platforms. SwiftUI relies on a declarative UI programming paradigm, aiming to drastically increase developer productivity and reduce lines of code. Moreover, SwiftUI features an XCode interactive development experience, displaying in real-time the result of their code.
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Pixi.js, HTML5 Alternative to Adobe Flash, Adds WebGL Support for Cross-Platform, Interactive Apps
PixiJS, a standard-based alternative to Adobe Flash, released its fifth major version with faster rendering and lower GPU utilization. PixiJS v5 abstracts WebGL features behind a new API which falls back to HTML5’s canvas if needed. Developers thus need not dive into the WebGL API or deal with device compatibility to create rich, interactive graphics, cross-platform applications, and games.
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Splunk Releases Splunk Connected Experiences and Splunk Business Flow
Data analytics organisation, Splunk, recently released Splunk Connected Experiences which delivers insights through augmented reality (AR), mobile devices like Apple TV, and mobile applications. They also released Splunk Business Flow which enables business operations professionals to gain insights across their customer journeys and business processes.
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Capacitor 1.0 Aims to Improve the Creation of Hybrid, Web, and Native Apps
Capacitor, Ionic's new native API container aimed at creating iOS, Android, and Web apps using JavaScript, hit version 1.0. It attempts to bring a new take on how to build cross-platform apps that access native features.
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Mozilla Revamps WebThings, its Open Source IoT Platform
Mozilla recently released its open source IoT platform, formerly called Project Things, as WebThings. Mozilla WebThings brings a series of logging, alarm, and networking features.
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Flutter 1.5 Goes Multi-Platform, Includes Web Support
Announced as a technical preview at the latest Google I/O 2019 event, Flutter 1.5 aims to make it possible to create native applications for multiple platforms, including new form-factor devices, the Desktop, and the Web.
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Microsoft Announces React Native for Windows, with Focus on Performance
Microsoft recently announced at Microsoft Build 2019 a MIT-licensed, performance-oriented re-implementation of React Native for Windows. The new React Native for Windows will enable React Native developers to build native Windows apps with React. With the Windows 10 SDK support, developers may target a large variety of Windows devices such as PCs, tablets, laplets, Xbox, or Mixed Reality devices.
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Yelp Bento Aims to Simplify Modularized UI Development on Android
Yelp has open-sourced Bento, a framework to build modularized user interface on Android by combining different, reusable components into a single screen.
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Kotlin 1.3.30 Brings Kotlin/Native and KAPT Improvements, and More
JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.3.30. This version is mainly a new bug fix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.3. Kotlin 1.3.30 brings Kotlin/Native and KAPT improvements, support for more operations for unsigned types and arrays, debugging improvements on IntelliJ IDEA, and more.
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HiveMQ Goes Open Source, Brings MQTT and Kafka Together
Recently announced by HiveMQ, HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka aims to integrate Kafka and MQTT to enable real-time streaming for IoT applications.