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Title: Twitter weaves Fabric, but will developers be drawn in? Post by: HCK on October 24, 2014, 03:00:19 pm Twitter weaves Fabric, but will developers be drawn in?
<article> <section class="page"> <p>To identity Twitter solely as a micro-blogging service could be to do it a disservice. The company wants to be much more to developers building mobile apps, and at its Flight conference on Wednesday it welcomed them in.</p><p>Twitter unveiled Fabric (https://dev.twitter.com/products/fabric) on Wednesday, a broad software development kit aimed at helping developers build, grow and monetize their mobile apps. It includes tools for crash reporting, app log-ins, embedding and sharing Twitter posts, and measuring ad effectiveness.</p><p>The free SDK, more than a year in the making, could usher in a wave of rich apps with more tie-ins to Twitter. Its major components include Crashlytics (https://dev.twitter.com/products/crashlytics), Twitter’s crash-reporting system; a tool called Digits (https://dev.twitter.com/products/digits) that lets users log in with a phone number instead of a password; and easier ways to embed (https://dev.twitter.com/products/signin) Twitter content in apps and post to Twitter across iOS and Android.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2837952/twitter-weaves-fabric-but-will-developers-be-drawn-in.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Twitter weaves Fabric, but will developers be drawn in? (http://www.macworld.com/article/2837952/twitter-weaves-fabric-but-will-developers-be-drawn-in.html#tk.rss_all) |