Google's capabilities project looks to increase the interoperability of web and native apps. Typical local capabilities like file system access and idle detection are expected at the local level, but don't translate well to web. The Writable Files API is one aspect of the project … | Continue reading
Foldable phones are coming back. But, they won't be like the limited feature phones of the early 2000s. The new foldable phones will come with a robust set of smartphone features, and Google is preparing to make the foldable phone experience more robust than the current single sc … | Continue reading
Voltaire, an electronic cash exchange built for Bitcoin Cash has launched their first developer API. The API allows developer and traders alike to make programmatic calls to Voltaire’s Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash market. Voltaire plans to open the API to more markets such as Ethereum, G … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Financial, Cryptocurrency and Spreadsheets. Featured today is an API for Insurance brokers to fetch data about policies and customers, and an API for sonar imaging. Here's a rundown of the latest … | Continue reading
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Google recently announced the beta release of three new AI features for the Google Cloud Video Intelligence API. With the addition of Text Detection, Object Tracking, and Speech Transcription, the API is now more capable of handling common video challenges. | Continue reading
GraphQL is moving to a vendor neutral, open source foundation. The GraphQL Foundation will be hosted by Linux Foundation, and the project will be run under an open governance model. The transition from Facebook to the foundation is ongoing, but a preliminary list of founding memb … | Continue reading
Mapillary has launched an open-source SDK for its street-level image platform. The SDK allows users to process and upload images to the platform. The more images uploaded, the more up to date and more robust maps become within third party apps. Currently, over 390 million images … | Continue reading
Squarelink, an access tool for blockchain apps and services, has launched along with its public REST API. The API lets blockchain applications to retrieve transactions, data, and user account information upon permission by the user. The startup also plans on releasing open source … | Continue reading
Playing a game of catch-up, Samsung said developers will soon be able to integrate their apps into Bixby, the company's personal assistant. Since launch, Bixby has failed to gain traction with users and it is far behind Amazon's Alexa, Google's Assistant, and even Apple's Siri. W … | Continue reading
Today, Google is hosting the annual Android Dev Summit and has announced a set of new features and upgrades aimed at increasing developer productivity and user engagement. The updates include a new In-App Updates API that allows applications to update in the background while bein … | Continue reading
Apollo is a premier name in GraphQL. The company has launched what it's calling its "flagship product." The Apollo GraphQL Platform serves as a marketplace of data and data services within organizations that leverage GraphQL. Apollo's tagline for the product says it all: "Do Grap … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Internet of Things, Real Estate, Electronic Signature, and CRM. Featured today are APIs from Sensorlab for retrieving sensor data such as motion and ambient light changes. Here's a rundown of the … | Continue reading
At Intuit’s annual conference, QuickBooks Connect, some details were shared about the latest version of their QuickBooks Online API, currently open to partners. Included was a look at the Payroll functionality, long desired by Intuit’s developer community, and notes on the move t … | Continue reading
Australia introduced a Consumer Data Right roughly a year ago. While the government plans to enforce the right in the banking sector first, no legislation has yet compelled implementation. Nevertheless, Data61 published a working draft standard for the core standard principles an … | Continue reading
Moonlighting, a freelance hiring platform that first opened in 2014, recently announced the open release of the Moon API. The API allows staffing professionals and recruiters to post short and long-term projects on the company’s platform, reaching over 650,000 users. | Continue reading
Amazon just made setting reminders with Alexa a lot easier. The Reminders API allows developers to include reminders within a particular skill in three simple steps. Prior to the Reminders API, customers needed to remember to create the right skill at the right time to get a spec … | Continue reading
KeyedIn today announced a new API Version 3 that makes it easier for its customers to share or extract project and portfolio data with other business software solutions for a more complete view of their businesses in real time. | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Books, Sports and Billing. Highlights include Google's Firebase Management API and the Caselaw Access Project API which provides free access to millions of law books. Here's a look at what is n … | Continue reading
After a year of beta testing its in-app messaging platform, Pusher has released Chatkit to general availability. Chatkit includes a set of APIs that comes loaded with a number of features that users have come to expect from any mainstream chat service (typing indicators, file sha … | Continue reading
Few trends exemplify the idea of FOMO the way blockchain trends do. But should you invest your time or money into it? This article offers some ways that you can get started with blockchain so that you can be aware of a rapidly growing and evolving market and make the best decisio … | Continue reading
Amazon has made its Music Skill API generally available in the Alexa Skills Kit. This API is meant for music service providers, such as Spotify or Pandora, and allows them to add their music service to Alexa-powered devices. Once connected, subscribers will be able to ask for the … | Continue reading
This tutorial will show you how to make a heatmap using Mapbox GL JS. Heatmaps can be used to display a large amounts of points in a visually engaging way for your audience. Here we refer to heatmaps as a visualization that is useful for showing the density of points over an area … | Continue reading
Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Health, Cloud, and Real Estate. Featured today is an API for adding e-signature functions to applications, and The Met Collection API for access to high resolution art images. Here's a look at wha … | Continue reading
Google has evolved its bot-detecting reCAPTCHA API again. reCAPTCHA v3 goes beyond distorted text and identifying signals. v3 monitors a site user's interaction with a site and provides a score to the site owner/developer. The developer can use the risk score to evaluate needed a … | Continue reading
In support of the upcoming deprecation of Hashtag Search via the Instagram Platform API, instagram announced the release of similar functionality for the Instagram Graph API. The new Graph API feature will still provide businesses the same basic functionality, but Instagram is im … | Continue reading
Google has made good on the previous news that it will shutter the GData Admin Settings API. The company first announced plans to sunset the API in August 2016, and later extended the API's lifespan through October 31, 2018. Now, the day of reckoning is here. Are you ready for th … | Continue reading
Google hosted its third annual Firebase Summit this week in Prague. The conference was not short on API and developer news. The ML Kit's Face Detection API has expanded in features. The Firebase Management API was introduced. A number of Firebase tools previously in beta are now … | Continue reading
While often perceived as competitive to Ethereum, HyperLedger operates on a different wavelength. Hyperledger provides a set of agnostic tools for developers who are building blockchain apps, regardless of the core blockchain layer. Therefore it is a suite of the tools mentioned … | Continue reading
Estated, a leading property data provider, today announced the latest version of their property data API. Businesses and developers will now have access to over 135M properties and nearly 160M parcels across the United States. Estated now offers a RESO compliant Universal Propert … | Continue reading
Docker vulnerabilities have been the source of malicious attacks for years. A new trend in attacking Docker containers is to identify an unsecure Docker API, launch a new container, and use the container to start mining cryptocurrency. Trend Micro has identified an attacker looki … | Continue reading
What if centralized integration services are getting it wrong? What if in the future, every service would come with integrations out-of-the-box? Every cloud service would have their own mini, built-in iPaaS, and apps from disparate cloud services would support integrations with e … | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Cryptocurrency, Genetics, Open Data, and Accounting. Highlights include the Ciliar API for recognizing objects in video and the BankersAlgo API for foreign exchange rates. Here's a rundown of the l … | Continue reading
This guide will walk you through how to create a store locator map using Mapbox GL JS. You'll be able to browse all of the locations from a sidebar and select a specific store to view more information. It takes a deep dive into JavaScript with Mapbox GL JS to build an interactive … | Continue reading
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, today announced a new API that will provide access to 406,000 images from the The Met collection, all available to use free of copyright or restriction. The Met Collection API is a step forward for the museum’s Open Access Program. | Continue reading
Qualcomm may have just made life easier for Bluetooth headset makers looking to integrate with Amazon's Alexa. Qualcomm's new Smart Headset Platform includes both a reference design and a development kit that allows Bluetooth headset makers to easily integrate their headsets with … | Continue reading
Taking advantage of APIs is a quick and inexpensive technique for a business so long as those APIs are available and remain constant. Changes happen to APIs all the time and this is the story of Stitch, a company that found a way to succeed, despite the uncertainties inherent to … | Continue reading
Data Theorem, developer of application security systems, has announced two new solutions for API security analysis, API Inspect and API discover. Both tools aim to help customers gain a greater visibility into the status of their applications overall API security. | Continue reading
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Air Travel, Payments, and Passwords. Featured today is an API that enables applications to send passwords via text message and an API to analyze sentiment in social posts. Here's a rundown of the la … | Continue reading
APIs, via B2B partnerships and B2C applications, can increase a company’s reach and make digital assets and services available to broader audiences. There are dangers posed by the adoption of insecure APIs in the enterprise. Hence, businesses need a strategy for building and oper … | Continue reading
For Google Maps users looking for an alternative, this guide will walk you through making the switch to Mapbox. You will be shown how to use Mapbox GL JS, a web mapping JavaScript library, to create a web map, add a marker, and attach a popup using similar methods as the Google M … | Continue reading
Everypixel, a stock image search engine that uses AI to analyse images on the basis of aesthetic appeal, has expanded the Everypixel API to include User Generated Content Photography Scoring. The API already provided functionality for image tagging, stock photo scoring, and visua … | Continue reading
Facebook recently introduced Graph API V3.2, which includes updates to Instagram Graph API, Page Insights, Pages and Video Polls, and Marketing API. The company also announced updates to Facebook Login and the Messenger App. | Continue reading
Developing a software product is an enormous challenge, but it’s also enormously rewarding. This article provides a guide to design thinking when developing your API. It will cover what an API is, what design thinking is and why it matters and some essential API design tools. | Continue reading
Really Simple Systems, a cloud-based CRM provider, has announced the release of version 4 of their API. The update comes at the request of the developer community and adds new features, while increasing security. Improvements include the ability to control authentication at the … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Messaging, Payments, and Shipping. Highlights include an unofficial Google News API and an API for enabling applications to accept Bitcoin payments. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Kairos, known for its cloud-based face recognition solution, has introduced an on-premise version of its API. An on-premise option allows users to better secure their use cases, and reduces latency between apps that consume the API, and the compute-heavy cloud where Kairos built … | Continue reading
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has announced the release of their KrisConnect Programme, which aims to enhance the overall customer experience by making resources more readily available. The company’s APIs offer partners a range of functionality. | Continue reading