Oracle launches its New Mobile Application Framework

With the speed development of mobile apps,Oracle decides to launch its new Mobile Application Framework (MAF), which was made available Monday.The new framework is part of a series of updates to the Oracle Mobile Suite.

MAF builds on the cross-platform development tools Oracle already offers. The framework lets developers choose between the JDeveloper IDE integrated development environment or Enterprise Pack for Eclipse. Oracle stated that developers can also pick between a number of development languages, including Java, JavaScript and HTML5 when they are developing native Android and iOS apps.The framework also includes capability for declarative UI components creation, which allows for greater reusability during the app development process.More than 80 user-interface (UI) components are contained in the framework, allowing developers to use more extensive data visualization capabilities and reduce the need for low-level HTML5 coding.By integrating the new MAF with its Mobile Security Suite, Oracle hopes to calm the misgivings of mobile enterprise-app developers who are concerned about securing their apps and the data they have access to. The security suite includes features for application containerization, advanced authentication and authorization, and integration with social network log-ins.Oracle said the updated Mobile Suite now contains everything developers need to extend their enterprise systems to mobile phones and tablets.

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http://www.toptechnews.com/article/index.php?story_id=1320044NEN3O

Google's Web Starter Kit simplifies cross-device site development

Google launched Web Starter Kit on last Thursday, a download that consists of all the templates and tooling developers need to create sites that function on any device and any display(which the term you most familiar as "responsive").

Today’s Internet users don’t have just one device. They prefer as physical keyboard for their PCs but they want as touch screens on mobile. These days, no two screen sizes are alike. Users expect the same website to perform differently depending on the device by which it is accessed.

In its introduction to the kit, Google divides the workflow in to three functions: developers can pick a template, build the site and test it out.

The kit is designed to not just create attractive websites across Internet connected devices uses Google Chrome, but all browsers. That’s because it’s based on the Web standards provided by the W3 Coalition to make the Web accessible

Google's Web Starter Kit may tie into some new design concepts coming from Google in the coming weeks and months, including the expansion of its Polymer Web design principles it announced at Google I/O 2013 and the rumored Google Quantum Paper project for Android design.

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http://readwrite.com/2014/06/19/google-launches-starter-kit-for-a-more-consistent-web#awesm=~oHT6OW4nNaS8eG

Amason's Firefly SDK will open new era of mobile apps

It is true that application developers are tired of iterating on activities with messaging, photo-sharing, socializing.Amazon is going to introduce new ways to differentiate themselves from a growing number of app store competitors.That is what we called visual recognition technology,with this developers will not only be able to make their existing apps smarter and more aware of objects out in the real world, they can potentially develop new kinds of applications entirely.

Firefly was introduced as a key feature in Amazon’s just-announced Fire Phone - the company’s first-ever smartphone.Using a dedicated hardware button on the side of the phone, mobile consumers are able to identify almost anything they see or hear using the smartphone’s camera and other sensors, including text, products, movies, TV shows, books, games, CDs, business cards, web addresses, bar-codes, QR codes and more.

Most of the potential use cases for Firefly, from Amazon’s perspective, are all about driving more sales. See or hear anything, identify it automatically, and Amazon will help you acquire it instantly. Hear a good song? Push the Firefly button and buy. See some nice shoes? Buy. Drink a great wine? Buy.

Identification can also serve as just the first step in directing a user to more information beyond just the “what.” For example, a sample plug-in called “Exempli,” also described in the developer documentation, first identifies the musical artist behind a song being heard, then searches an external service to determine if there are any upcoming shows by that artist within a 50-mile radius of the user’s current location.

With this Amason's new technology,it is said that apps will get Dynamic perspective.The goal is to introduce a new way of interacting with on-screen content in a way that’s as remarkable as the “pinch-and-zoom” and swiping gestures were when the iPhone first debuted.In fact, both technologies are about moving away from the tapping and swiping and typing altogether. Dynamic Perspective is about movement and tilting and things you can do with one hand. 

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http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/with-firefly-dynamic-perspective-amazon-just-opened-up-all-new-categories-for-app-developers/