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Google Makes Progress in Modernizing Android Development
Google today made a host of announcements that provide a good look at the future of Android. The company released three core sets of tools: a developer preview of Jetpack Compose; expanded APIs for Android Jetpack; and Android Studio 4 in Canary — which Google says completes the Android experience.
10-23-2019
Stream Announces a Native Android SDK, Brings Stream Chat Out of Beta
Stream, a provider offering a streaming API platform has announced the addition of the native Android SDK for both Java and Kotlin. The SDK allows developers to add scalable feeds, activity streams, and chat functionality to their applications. Stream now offers support for most major languages.
08-29-2019
Amazon Announces GA of AWS SDK for Java 2.x
Amazon has largely rewritten its AWS SDK for Java. Although it is a rewrite from 1.11.x, Amazon used the same JVM so that developers don't have to migrate an entire product over to 2.x. Amazon focused on consistency, immutability, and ease of use in the rewrite. 2.x includes many requested features.
11-20-2018
Daily API RoundUp: simPRO, Ordnance Survey, MarketFactory, Alexa Auto SDK
Five APIs as well as a notable SDK have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Auto, Voice, Business, Mapping, and Currency. Featured today is the MarketFactory Whisperer API for FX trade aggregation, and the Alexa Auto SDK. Here's a look at what's new.
09-26-2018
Oracle Unveils GraphPipe, a New Standard for Machine Learning Model Serving
Oracle today unveiled GraphPipe, an open-source standard that aims to simplify machine learning model serving. GraphPipe itself is a high-performance protocol for transmitting machine learning data between remote processes that Oracle developed to address machine learning model challenges.
08-15-2018
Java the Most Popular Language, Swift Showing Greatest Growth in ProgrammableWeb Directories
Which programming language is the most popular with developers? In the past we’ve looked to our directories to provide some insight into which language is most in demand. The recent growth of our SDK and Sample Source Code directories gives us an opportunity to take a fresh look at the data.
08-01-2018
Google Suffers Another Setback in API Copyright Case. Now What?
When it comes to Oracle v. Google on the subject of the latter’s alleged misappropriation of Java’s APIs in the Android operating system, a federal appeals court has hammered what appears to be all but the last remaining nail into the coffin that could seal Google’s fate.
03-28-2018
Bing Search API Tutorial
Developers use the Bing SearchAPIs to add web search functionality to their applications. This functionality includes search across web pages as well as news items, videos, images and more. In this article we provide an introduction to the various Search APIs functionality and call them.
01-28-2018
Send and Receive SMS With Java Using Nexmo
The Nexmo SMS API is a service that allows you to send and receive SMS messages anywhere in the world. Nexmo provides REST APIs, but it's easier to use their official Java SDK. This tutorial covers how to send and receive SMS messages with the SDK so that you can use them in your applications.
12-05-2017
Integrating Google QPX With Mule
The Google QPX Express API allows developers to search for real flight availability and prices and use this data into their applications. This articles shows you how to integrate Mule with the Google QPX Express API, giving your app a flight availability and price search functionality.
11-01-2017
In Other API Economy News: New AWS Java SDK, Facebook Graph API updates and More
We bring you a holiday edition of the API news that we weren't able to cover. Today's news includes a new version of the AWS Java SDK, Facebook offering an explanation to developers regarding a recent change to the Graph API, and extension to the Azure Text Analytics API and more.
07-04-2017
In Other API Economy News: GitHub Releases Open Source Survey Results, Wonder Woman Inspires Girls to Code
Before you head off into your weekend, here is another edition of ProgrammableWeb's "Briefly, In other API Economy News". Today we cover new mapping developer tools from WRLD, GitHub's open source survey results, Stripe's new SQL tool and Google's collaboration with Warner Bros to get girls to code.
06-02-2017
Facebook Announces More Performant Version of React Framework
At F8 -- Facebook's annual developer conference -- the company's engineers announced a new version of React with a core designed to optimize the performance of applications that are written with the framework. The new core, React Fiber, is better at scheduling tasks based on what the user is doing.
04-19-2017
Google App Engine Adds .NET Support As It Races to Be The PaaS of Choice
Platforms as Services (PaaS) are garnering a lot of attention from developers and enterprises these days for a lot of reasons. Knowing that language flexibility is core to PaaS success, Google has the most popular languages covered in Google App Engine now that it has added support for .NET and PHP.
03-14-2017
Google Releases Final Android 7.1 Developer Preview
Google made a second preview of Android 7.1 available to mobile app developers ahead of the platform's release. Along with the new build, Google made some minor adjustments to the Android SDK and Android Studio. Developers should put the new tools to use in finalizing their apps for Android 7.1.
11-23-2016
New Version of Clarifai API Actually Offers Developers Bespoke Machine Learning
With the latest version of its image recognition API, Clarifai is now offering developers a way to leverage the underlying engine's machine learning capabilities to build custom models so that what one organization looks for in an image can be very different from what another organization looks for.
10-10-2016
How Google's Acquisition of Apigee Was Just a Continuation of an Existing Trend
Google has acquired Apigee, one of the top API management solution providers. When it comes to APIs, there are few companies that provide as many APIs as Google. It practically gave birth to the API economy. Now, it's positioning itself to host and manage them with Google Cloud Platform.
09-09-2016
How the Automated Attacks on the Pokémon GO API Happened
Pokémon GO has been hugely popular and generated millions of sessions around the world as people search for the digital creatures. But, it turns out that a fair chunk of recent API traffic has been coming from gaming bots that are making spatial queries to the API from outside of the game client.
08-26-2016
Researchers Identify Security Vulnerability Involving Swagger
Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the Swagger ecosystem that could result in the exploitation of Web API endpoints when those endpoints or any SDKs designed to access them are generated from a Swagger-based API description. Malicious remote code execution is the main concern.
07-05-2016
The Most Popular Programming Languages According to ChargeBee
The order of popularity changes based on what data you look at. Chargebee decided to look at the actual API requests from the apps that have integrated with Chargebee using the language-specific SDKs. This gives a glimpse at which languages are most popular for SaaS and eCommerce customers.
06-10-2016