Sendbird has announced updated versions of the company’s Sendbird Chat and UIKit products. Sendbird Chat SDKs for iOS, Android, and JavaScript have been rebuilt from the ground up using Swift, Kotlin, and Typescript. UIKit has seen architectural improvements aimed at improving flexibility.
Bots are a handy way to automate simple tasks that you might typically do on your own, such as updating calendar appointments. In this tutorial on Full Stack Python, Matt Makai explains how to build your first chatbot using the Slack API and Python to begin returning simple messages.