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Facebook’s Mobile Back-end Parse Dies Today As Many Opt for Open Source Project
Parse, the Back-end-as-a-Service (BaaS) offering from Facebook, is today in the final stage of its year-long shutdown, with many former users having adopted an open source version of the project. View original article
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React Native Gets New Navigation Option
Navigation, which has long been problematic for React Native developers using JavaScript to create native iOS and Android mobile apps, is being addressed with a brand-new open source option from some of the leading coders in the young technology’s ecosystem. View original article
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CalendarKit – A Swift Based Calendar Component With An Excellent Interface And Localization
CalendarKit is a Swift based open source UI component from Richard Topchii featuring a modular strucutre. With CalendarKit you can pick and choose which parts of the calendar to include such as the day calendar or the event calendar. You can also fully customize the look of the calendar. View original article
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Tutoiral: Building A Custom Swift Based iOS UI Component That Utilizes 3D Touch
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ResponseDetective – A Swift Library That Intercepts Networking Request Details For Easier Debugging
ResponseDetective is an open source Swift library from netguru that allows you to automatically intercept incoming and outgoing communication requests and view details of those requests for debugging. You can find ResponseDetective on Github here. View original article
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Wine 2.0 released
This release represents over a year of development effort and around 6,600 individual changes. The main highlights are the support for Microsoft Office 2013, and the 64-bit support on macOS. View original article
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Google starts testing Android Instant Apps to collect user feedback
Google today announced it has begun a limited test of Android Instant Apps. The company says Android users can try “a few” Instant Apps, including from BuzzFeed, Wish, Periscope, and Viki, in a limited test. View original article
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Tutoiral: Building A Custom Swift Based iOS UI Component That Utilizes 3D Touch
3D touch is a great way to enhance user interface components and Yari D’areglia has written a nice guide to building a custom confirmation button that neatly uses 3D touch. View original article
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Making Responsive HTML Email Coding Easy With MJML – Smashing Magazine
Email is one of the best ways to engage with your users, especially during the holiday season. However, if you want to stand out, no matter how beautiful your emails are, you need to make sure they render correctly in your reader’s inbox, regardless of what email client they’re using. View original article
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Samsung details why Note 7 batteries combusted
To find the cause of the Galaxy Note7 incidents, Samsung examined every aspect of the Galaxy Note7, including hardware, software and related processes over the past several months. View original article
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Is App Indexing For Google Worth It?
Will the resources spent implementing app indexing for Google search be a boon or a bust for your app’s traffic? In this article, I’ll take you through a case study for app indexing at our company, the results of which may surprise you. View original article
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ASUS takes on Raspberry Pi with its 4K-capable, Kodi-ready Tinker Board
If you love Raspberry Pi, but require a little more power for your projects, then ASUS’s Tinker Board could be just what you’re looking for. Although there’s no shortage of Raspberry Pi alternatives, the low-cost Tinker Board is better than most because its quad-core 1. View original article
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Apple releases iOS 10.2.1, macOS Sierra 10.12.3, tvOS 10.1.1 and watchOS 3.1.3 — here’s what’s new
Apple today releases updates for all its major operating systems, introducing iOS 10.2.1, macOS Sierra 10.12.3, tvOS 10.1.1 and watchOS 3.1.3. The latest builds do not add any new features, as the focus is on improving the existing functionality and squashing bugs. View original article
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SamuraiTransition – Swift Library Providing A Nice Collection Of View Transitions
SamuraiTransition is an open source Swift based library providing a collection of ViewController transitions featuring a number of neat “cutting” animations from hachinobu. View original article
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9 Hacks for Making Pizza at Home
Aaron Quint and Michael R Bernstein are passionate at-home pizza makers who have spent over ten years honing their pie-making skills. Together, they wrote The Pizza Book, a Kickstarter-funded comprehensive guide to making great pizza at home. View original article
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The new Google Voice launches, bringing a modern look, group chat, photo sharing & more
Confirming reports from earlier this month that a Google Voice update was in the works, Google today has launched a refreshed version of its VoIP calling service on mobile and the web. View original article
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Facebook open-sources Atom in Orbit, a web-based IDE
Facebook developers have crafted a version of the Atom open-source text editor that can be deployed in a web browser. Atom in Orbit, as the new technology is called, is now available on GitHub under a BSD-3 Clause open-source license, and a demo app lets you take the tool for a spin. View original article
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WebAPK – new way to distribute web apps
A Google developer has posted a demo of a WebAPK and we’re doing a first look at this new way of distributing (web) applications by Google. WebAPKs load super fast, even on slow networks, can can request the same permissions as native apps and also can have an icon on the homescreen. View original article