Smart speaker developers will be able to allow Spotify free tier users to direct their streaming from their PC or phone to their speaker.
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Existing iOS apps must support iPhone X notch by July
If your favorite app that you use on your iPhone X still hasn't come to support the notch on your Super Retina Display, perhaps you have only weeks to wait before it does.
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Apple Watch loses Instagram app with watchOS SDK threshold
App developers will need to drop off the watchOS 1 SDK and move onto at least watchOS 2. Instagram, for some reason, will not do that, thus the end of the applet.
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Fitbit Ionic smartwatch officially begins worldwide rollout October 1, SDK available tomorrow
Priced at $299.95 stateside to undercut the Apple Watch Series 3, that long overdue Fitbit Ionic smartwatch is launching around the world in a few days.
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ARCore is Google’s SDK for augmented reality without the need to Tango
It's only fair to share...
All those sensors on those Project Tango phones we saw? Google doesn’t need them anymore and has a new SDK to prove it and compete with Apple.
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Qualcomm introduces another piece of reference hardware, the Snapdragon VR820
If manufacturers want to take their work on the Snapdragon 820 SoC to things above smartphones and tablets, — say, an all-in-one VR headset — then Qualcomm has just laid out a “square one” for them.The Snapdragon VR820 gives developers reference hardware in designing software and content experiences for consumers who happen to be interested in Snapdragon 820-powered wireless headsets.The San Diego chip designer hitched with Shenzhen-based manufacturer Goertek ...
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WWDC keynote has a start time and we don’t have a clue what iOS will be called
It’s not even two weeks now until WWDC16 comes along. It’s the Apple developer gathering that reveals everything new in the company’s software. The big reveal we’re looking out for? iOS 10. iOS X. iOS Twiddles. Whatever it’s supposed to be called, it’s supposedly coming. And in all seriousness, we haven’t seen a completely new software feature for you iPhone or iPad that would seemingly justify turning the dial up to ten.While we do know that WWDC will take place ...
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WWDC keynote has a start time and we don’t have a clue what iOS will be called
It’s not even two weeks now until WWDC16 comes along. It’s the Apple developer gathering that reveals everything new in the company’s software. The big reveal we’re looking out for? iOS 10. iOS X. iOS Twiddles. Whatever it’s supposed to be called, it’s supposedly coming. And in all seriousness, we haven’t seen a completely new software feature for you iPhone or iPad that would seemingly justify turning the dial up to ten.While we do know that WWDC will take place ...
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Siri SDK may open Apple up to voice assistant frenzy
HTC releases Dual Lens SDK for the One M8; let’s see what devs can do
The Duo Camera arrangement on the new HTC One M8 is something unlike anything we’re used to from smartphone imaging, marrying the phone’s primary camera with a secondary sensor that can be used to calculate distance info. On the One M8 as it shipped, HTC’s software takes advantage of that depth data to pull off some visual effects like selective blurring or the application of more stylistic filters. Is that all there is to this feature, though? HTC would love to see what other minds can come up with, and so ...
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Windows Phone 8.1 SDK shows a merger in apps with Windows RT, plus lots of feature updates
If you’ve been wondering exactly why Microsoft has taken so long to unwrap Windows Phone 8.1 to the world, today’s leaks explain everything. As the company has begun sharing the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK to developers yesterday, it was only a matter of time before we had all the goods on what to expect for the update, and the list is insanely big. To avoid any confusion, let’s just go through the major changes. Apps merge Microsoft has been hinting about “Universal Apps” for quite some time. The SDK does show this feature to be included, though this is just ...
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