Google has banned all apps installed from the Play Store to update themselves without using the official update mechanism or in a way that bypasses the Play Store. This move will not affect apps that are sideloaded or are installed from sources other than the Play Store.
The new set of announcements are aimed at providing a better experience for mobile app developers to integrate Facebook into their applications. Though most of the announcement concerns iOS devices, further updates for the Android platform are to be expected soon.
Facebook has announced Graph Search that allows users to search for contextual open graph data like photos, restaurants, games, music, movies etc., which have been liked by your friends.
Sencha created a proof of concept demo app called Fastbook to show that HTML5 is actually mature enough to work as fast as native apps.
Kendo UI has conducted a survey that shows some surprising statistics regarding usage of HTML5 among mobile app developers.
Facebook’s Hadoop clusters are ready to scale across distinct data centres, with a recent upgrade that enables better delay tolerance. In the near future, Facebook plans to open source Prism as well.
In an effort to drive more developers to its mobile platform, Facebook released a new Android SDK with updated features and a dedicated Android Dev Center for developers on its platform.
Tired of having to remember dozens of passwords? Move over autofills. In Persona, Mozilla just might have the solution for you.
Mark Zuckerberg admitted that betting on HTML5 was a big mistake and that the technology is just not there yet. Facebook is now working to release a native app for Android and tweaking the iOS version released a month back.
