Mobile Development
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What’s new in Google’s Android Studio 3.1
Google’s development suite for mobile apps adds improvements for C++ and Kotlin coders and for SQLite database users
What’s new for developers in Android P
Kotlin, machine learning, and greater app compatibility get attention in the latest Google developer tools
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Mobile Enterprises Turn to Mobility-as-a-Service
At companies of all kinds, business leaders, managers, and employees expect to get work done wherever they are, whenever they want. To enable the mobile enterprise, IT leaders must manage multiple device types securely and
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What’s new in Google’s Flutter mobile dev framework
The first beta release is now available for Android and iOS developers
Why developers focus on ‘loser’ iOS over ‘winner’ Android
Linux has beat closed-source operating systems in every hardware category, but in mobile its Android derivative just can’t win in the ecosystem competition
What’s new in Google’s Dart language
Dart 2 has been rebooted for client-side web and mobile development
What’s new in NativeScript
The framework that turns JavaScript, TypeScript, and Angular into native mobile apps adds starter templates, has direct Vue.js support
How to build a mobile app on Azure
Among the major clouds offering mobile back ends as a service, InfoWorld judged Microsoft’s to be the best. Now you can get started with Azure Mobile Services, and create your mobile app fast
Android developers get programming extensions for Kotlin
The beta Android KTX extensions should make coding in Kotlin more concise and idiomatic
What’s new in the Bootstrap 4 web development framework
The mobile-first framework uses Sass variables and mixins, the Bootstrap grid system, and prebuilt components
Troubled jQuery mobile and UI projects seek new participants
Because of diminished resources, the two JavaScript-related projects are being merged
State of JavaScript: TypeScript rises, Angular falls
JavaScript developers prefer ES6, React, and Express, while TypeScript, Vue.js, and GraphQL draw strong interest
Download the HTML5 Strategy Deep Dive
Preparing your website and Web apps for HTML5? Here's what you need to know
What’s next for the Glimmer mobile JavaScript library
Library for mobile apps getting custom bytecode for faster loading and even performance improvements
Google’s new mechanism to embed web content in Android apps
The Trusted Web Activity capability, soon to be in beta, lets apps use web-based content in a chromeless window
Maturing devops practices: what you don’t yet know
Why is it so hard for organizations to succeed in the journey to devops?
Kotlin could overtake Java on Android next year
Now that Google has endorsed Kotlin for Android development, Java-based mobile developers could become dinosaurs
Apple’s Swift is losing developers to multiplatform frameworks
Microsoft’s Xamarin, Apache Cordova, and Ionic are replacing the use of Swift and Xcode as developers seek to maintain fewer code bases
Bossie Awards 2017: The best software development tools
InfoWorld picks the top open source software for building systems and applications
8 reasons to develop a progressive web app
While native apps were once the be-all and end-all of mobile, there's a new contender on the block: PWAs
5 key challenges for mobile test automation
What are the top test-automation-at-scale challenges your apps will face?
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