Статьи по тегу «ios»

Workflow, the clever if somewhat geeky app aimed at iOS power users that helps you automate frequent tasks you perform on your iPhone or tablet, like ordering an Uber to your next event, making a GIF from your photos, creating reminders that alert you when you arrive at a particular destination, playing a favorite album, and much more, is out this morning with a notable update. The app now… Read More... →

One in five photos or videos on Instagram show up with annoying whitespace around them because people use other apps to letterbox their landscape or portrait imagery to fit in Instagram’s square cropping. So today, Instagram for iOS and Android is dropping the requirement that all photos and videos be squares. Now when users upload photos, they can pinch or tap a format button on the left… Read More... →

I can’t wait to see @alex crying tears of joy when Twitter finally releases a standalone Twitter DM app. This day hasn’t come yet, but it doesn’t mean that third-party developers aren’t already working on it. Meet Direct Messenger, an unofficial iOS messaging app for Twitter DM. This app packs a couple of nifty features, but also shows why we seriously need an… Read More... →

Life360, the maker of mobile applications for iOS, Android and Windows Phone that help keep families connected, has acquired Chronos Mobile Technologies, a startup behind a number of mobile apps that passively collect data from users’ smartphones in order to highlight trends and connections between various behaviors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Chronos had closed on a… Read More... →

Over the last year Square has built out an array of back office tools for small businesses, pivoting away from some of their more consumer facing aspirations. Now the company is taking the tools its built for its point of sale and bringing them to mobile. Today Square is giving its Appointments service a stand alone iOS mobile […]... →

Яндекс произвел перезапуск Метрики для приложений, объединив все основные инструменты по работе с приложениями и отслеживанию эффективности рекламных кампаний под одним общим названием AppMetrica. Еще в начале августа Яндекс начал предлагать всем желающим попробовать воспользоваться бесплатным трекингом и подробной аналитикой для приложений в новом качестве: AppMetrica - это аналитический инструмент, который в реальном времени собирает информацию об источниках аудитории, анализирует ее поведение в приложе... →

It was supposed to take 18 months. But with React Native, Facebook built its iOS Ads Manager app in 5 months, and then ported it to Android in just 3 more months. That’s because React Native let Facebook’s engineers work faster and reuse the JavaScript backend. Coders have dreamed of a system that would let them ‘write once, run anywhere’. But Facebook… Read More... →

The rollout of iOS 9 is expected to come this Fall and will introduce a new privacy feature called App Transport Security (ATS) to enforce best practices in secure connections between an app and its back end. This change may need your action if you are developing with the Google Mobile Ads SDK and building an app against the iOS 9 SDK. We recommend using HTTPS exclusively if you're developing a new app. If you're working on an existing app,... →

YouTube just launched YouTube Gaming on the web, Android and iOS. As expected, YouTube Gaming goes head-to-head against Twitch, mirroring many popular features of the existing gaming streaming giant. Read More... →

Portal, a recently launched Android app that lets you move large files between your computer and your smartphone via your Wi-Fi connection, has today made its way to iOS. The new version offers a better alternative to something like Apple’s AirDrop, for example, as it lets you transfer as many files as you’d like, with no file size limits, while also not counting against your data… Read More... →

Docady, an iOS app that lets you store and manage all your important documents, has been doing well in the App Store since its official launch in mid-July, including being featured by Apple as a ‘best new app’ for the last few weeks. And to help continue with that momentum, the Tel Aviv-based startup has just closed a $1.5 million funding round. Read More... →

With messaging apps like WhatsApp, Line, and Viber fighting for growth around the world, is there room for smaller, newer players? Charge Messenger thinks so and to prove that point, it just announced $1.7 million in seed funding and a new web client that lets users sync chats on their iOS and Android devices to desktop. Read More... →

Microsoft официально запустил бета-версию приложения Cortana для Android в США. Выпуск версии для iOS ожидается в ближайшее время. Полный опыт и функции Cortana доступны пользователям Windows 10 и Windows Phone. Но поскольку Cortana для Android не имеет доступа к электронной почте и календарю, то эта версия голосового помощника не предоставляет полный набор функций и возможностей пользователям устройств Android. Приложение имеет следующий набор функций: голосовой поиск для веб-запросов; голосовой набор т... →

Google today announced an update that brings Gmail and Google Calendar closer together. The new feature, which adds events to Google Calendar based on information in emails sent to your Gmail account, is rolling out in the coming week to all Google Apps customers on desktop, Android, and iOS. When you receive an email in […]... →

After promising all summer to launch its Twitch competitor, YouTube is finally getting into the game. YouTube Gaming, the video site’s centralized hub for everything related to the digital medium, launches tomorrow. This will give fans one place to get live and recorded content about the biggest, smallest, and most popular games. That’s because YouTube […]... →

EXCLUSIVE: Redbooth, a company that sells software with task management, videoconferencing, and messaging features, is announcing today that it has built a new native desktop client for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Until now people were only available to use Redbooth in a web browser, or on iOS and Android. Redbooth is beginning a four-week beta program […]... →

A group of high school friends, now UC Berkeley engineers, have created an app called Bash to make it easier for friends to organize hangouts, meetups and other events. Launching today on the App Store following a small beta test on the UC Berkeley campus, the idea with Bash is to offer a less cumbersome alternative to using text messages or emails to organize these sorts of… Read More... →

Microsoft today launched Cortana for Android phones as a public beta that anyone can download. To try it out, all you have to do is become a tester using this Google Play link. In May, Microsoft revealed that its digital assistant Cortana would be coming to Android and iOS. Last month, a beta build of […]... →

Can an app warn you that you might have skin cancer? Digital health startup SkinVision is using smartphone tech and vision algorithms to allow consumers to track changes to their moles. Users of its iOS and Android apps, which have been downloaded some 200,000 times since launch back in 2011, take a photo of a mole and the app then performs a visual analysis, with the aim of identifying… Read More... →

Стартап Api.ai, предоставляющий разработчикам технологию для встраивания голосового интерфейса в различные устройства и приложения, привлек $3 млн от SAIC Capital, Intel Capital, Alpine Technology Fund и Motorola Solutions Venture Capital. Средства пойдут на развитие компании. Команда продолжит совершенствовать естественно-языковой интерфейс и работать над улучшением диалогов с пользователем и выполнением запрашиваемых действий. Api.ai сконцентрирована на развитии на зарубежных рынках. В основе Api.ai лежит... →