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Evinced’s accessibility testing solutions triple in adoption

Ryan Daws — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:53:26 +0000

Evinced, a provider of web and mobile accessibility solutions, saw its customer base triple in 2023 on the back of new prevention-focused tools like Unit Tester and Design Assistant. These innovations allow developers and designers to automatically catch accessibility issues long before release, marking a shift for the industry toward prevention versus post-hoc fixes. The... Read more »

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Vaadin speeds up prototyping and styling for Java applications

Vaadin — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:07:53 +0000

Vaadin, a provider of Java web application platforms, today announced the launch of two new low-code solutions for users of the Vaadin Flow framework: Visual View Builder and Visual Theme Editor. These low-code tools bridge the gap between application design and development by making it easy for developers and non-developers to visually prototype and style... Read more »

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Apple releases Xcode 14.3 with all the latest SDKs

Ryan Daws — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:29:11 +0000

Apple has released Xcode 14.3 to developers, which includes the latest SDKs for iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4, tvOS 16.4, watchOS 9.4, and macOS Ventura 13.3. Xcode enables developers to create apps for Apple platforms such as iOS, macOS, and watchOS. This update allows developers to create apps that are fully compatible with the latest operating... Read more »

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‘Ask Apple’ is an interactive Q&A series for developers

Ryan Daws — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 10:59:15 +0000

Apple is introducing an interactive Q&A series for developers that will provide opportunities to connect directly with the company’s experts. ‘Ask Apple’ is an extension to Cupertino’s existing ‘Tech Talks’ and ‘Meet with App Store Experts’ initiatives. Apple says the new series will “provide developers with even more opportunities to connect directly with Apple experts... Read more »

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The importance of being accessibility-first for effective UX design

Sara Faatz — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 16:07:41 +0000

Web design has seen a huge evolution in recent years, with accessibility and inclusion front of mind in the offline world impacting a more human side of software development. This means rethinking the approach to design, ensuring that the steps within processes address accessibility issues. Yet some tech companies are stuck in a previous era,... Read more »

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Xcode 14 beta practically confirms iPhone 14 Pro will get an AOD

Ryan Daws — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:20:53 +0000

The latest beta of Xcode 14 all but confirms that an always-on display (AOD) will arrive with the iPhone 14 Pro lineup. AODs have featured on numerous Android devices since around 2016. Over in the Apple garden, the only device to feature an AOD is the Apple Watch (Series 5+) Rather than have to fully... Read more »

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Snowflake Native Application Framework aims to help developers build and monetise apps

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:43:26 +0000

Snowflake, the Data Cloud company has launched a Native Application Framework to empower developers to build, monetise and deploy applications. Currently in private preview, developers can build applications and monetise them on Snowflake Marketplace, and consumers can securely install and run those applications, directly in their Snowflake instances, reducing the need for data to be... Read more »

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Android Studio will soon help developers fix broken UIs on Chromebooks

Ryan Daws — Mon, 09 May 2022 18:29:27 +0000

Android Studio will soon make it much easier for developers to fix broken UIs when their apps are used on Chromebooks. Chromebook users have suffered from all sorts of issues since Google enabled support for Android apps. Many of these problems stem from how apps designed for Android respond when confronted with freeform windows and... Read more »

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AWS Amplify Studio helps developers quickly build web apps

Ryan Daws — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 14:05:47 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that its Amplify Studio visual development environment for web apps is now generally available. Amplify Studio helps developers to build fully-customisable web apps on AWS with minimal coding. Until now, the solution has been in preview. “Developers tell us that they want tools that help make them more productive... Read more »

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Apps will soon need to be submitted to the App Store using Xcode 13

Ryan Daws — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:27:23 +0000

Apple has reminded developers that apps will soon need to be submitted to the App Store using Xcode 13. From 25 April 2022, Apple will only accept the submission of apps that are built using the latest version of its IDE. “iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS apps submitted to the App Store must be built with... Read more »

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