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Xamarin.Essentials Streamlines Cross-Platform Access to Native iOS, Android, and UWP Features
Xamarin.Essentials abstracts native mobile features into a set of cross-platform APIs with the aim of simplifying their use. After a few months in preview, it has been now officially released with a number of enhancements contributed by the community.
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Microsoft Open-Sources the UEFI Core Used by Surface Devices and Hyper-V
Project Mu aims to make it easier for developers to quickly create and frequently update the firmware of their devices, enabling Project Mu devices to adopt a Firmware as a Service (FaaS) evolution model. Project Mu contains the same code leveraged in several of products, including the Microsoft Surface and Hyper-V, Microsoft says.
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Cross-Platform Augmented Reality Apps with Unity AR Foundation
Unity, maker of the eponymous game engine, continues to advance its AR Foundation project, which aims to make it easier for developers to create AR apps that runs both on iOS and Android. Its latest release adds support for ARKit’s ARWorldMap and Unity’s Lightweight Render Pipeline.
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Building Scalable and Reliable IoT Apps with MQTT and HiveMQ 4
HiveMQ is an MQTT-based messaging platform designed to power IoT applications. Recently released HiveMQ 4 adds support for MQTT 5, improves its extension system, and integrates better with Docker and Kubernetes, and AWS EC2. InfoQ has spoken with Dominik Obermaier, CTO of dc-square GmbH, maker of HiveMQ.
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Cross-Platform Mobile Toolkit "Flutter" Now Stable
At its Flutter Live conference, Google launched the first stable release of Flutter, a Dart-based mobile development platform aiming to make it possible to write apps that share a single code base across iOS and Android with a native UI. Additionally, Google has announced an experimental web-based implementation of Flutter’s runtime which aims to bring Flutter apps to standard web browsers.
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The Story behind Very Fast iPhone XS JavaScript Performance
Initial reviews of JavaScript performance benchmarks show the iPhone XS and iPhone XS max having better performance than even an iMac Pro with the Speedometer 2.0 benchmark, which compares performance in real-world framework loading scenarios.
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Dart 2.1 Brings New Language Features, Better Usability and More
Google has released Dart 2.1. This version brings new language features, performance improvements, faster type checks, and better usability for type errors.
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Swift Adopts the Language Server Protocol
Apple’s Swift team announced they are going to provide support for using Swift with the Language Server Protocol (LSP). This will open up the possibility for developers to use Swift in any editor that supports LSP with code-completion, syntax-highlighting, etc. Apple has just opened the Swift LSP GitHub repository to contributions.
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Google Adds Android Support for Kotlin 1.3 and Optimizes for Foldable Devices
Google has presented a series of news at the Android Dev Summit, including new features of kotlin 1.3 supported on Android, support for foldable phones, In-app Updates API, improvements on Android Studio, and more.
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NativeScript 5.0 Brings Better Developer Experience and More Native Features
The latest release of NativeScript includes a number of changes, such as improved support for Vue.js, better developer experience, and more native features. Additionally, NativeScript 5.0 includes the new NativeScript-Schematics, an Angular extension helping developers to build web and mobile versions of an app from a single project.
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New Updates to Firebase: Enterprise-Grade Support, ML Kit Face Contours, Management API, and More
Firebase is a service available on the Google infrastructure, enabling developers to build apps for Android, iOS, and the web. Recently, Google updated Firebase with paid enterprise-grade support, ML Kit Face Contours, a Firebase Management API, Test Lab for iOS, Performance Monitoring improvements, and Firebase Predictions.
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New R8 Android Code Shrinker Available in Android Studio 3.3 Beta
Following the migration to D8 as its new Dalvik compiler, Google has been working on a new code shrinker, R8, which is now available in Android Studio 3.3 beta. R8 promises to deliver smaller APK files in less time.
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Oboe, a Library for Low Latency Audio Apps on Android
Google has released the first production-ready version of Oboe. Oboe is a C++ library for building high performance audio apps on Android, providing the lowest latency possible for Android devices.
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Smoke is a New Lightweight Server-Side Framework for Swift from Amazon
Amazon Smoke framework is a new open-source light-weight server-side framework written in Swift and aimed to build REST-like or RPC-like services. Its architecture stresses ease of use and favours a pure-functional programming style for request handlers.
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Kotlin 1.3 Introduces Stable Coroutines, Contracts, and More
At KotlinConf 2018 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, JetBrains announced Kotlin 1.3 RC, introducing new language features such as stable coroutines, contracts, inline classes, and more. At KotlinConf, Google and JetBrains also announced their joint effort to establish the Kotlin Foundation.