This week, Amazon announced the beta release of Honeycode. Honeycode is Amazon’s version of an app builder for non-coders. With Honeycode, customers use an intuitive visual app builder to create interactive web and mobile apps. The project has been in the works for years, and is … | Continue reading
SmartStream Technologies, a financial Transaction Lifecycle Management solutions provider, extended its Reference Data Utility Securities Financing Transactions Regulation service to include an API for firms requiring fast access to the technology needed to manage their reference … | Continue reading
Google has made a standalone version of its Machine Learning Kit SDK available to developers, allowing them to create AI-assisted apps directly on devices. The big change includes two new APIs that make it possible to create web-connected ML Kit apps without requiring Firebase. | Continue reading
AfterShip, a shipping and tracking platform for online retailers, has announced that its e-commerce shipping API, Postmen, will now be free. This offering has no limit on shipping volumes. With Postmen, users can automate and optimize shipping processes through 60 carriers around … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Payments, Cryptocurrency and Machine Learning. Highlights include the LunarCRUSH API which provides trend analysis about cryptocurrency and the QuadPay API for splitting payments into four install … | Continue reading
Touchpoint Group Holdings provides an application that offers streaming capabilities aimed at allowing influencers to connect with their fans. The company has announced an API that provides integration with UPS in order to streamline the shipping of products announced on the pla … | Continue reading
FIME has announced the availability of TrustAPI, a fully automated test tool for open banking APIs. Banks and Third-Party Providers (TPPs) can now quickly verify APIs against PSD2-compliant standards, fast-tracking the launch of open banking services. | Continue reading
Apple has new features for iOS 14 for the iPhone and iPad, and the corresponding series of updates for developers. Want to take advantage of the new home screen widget to surface dynamic info or app clips to show off your app in miniature form, download the latest SDK and get to … | Continue reading
In this article, we provide instructions on how to quickly implement the Sendbird UIKit for iOS and deploy fully-featured messaging using pre-built UI and messaging UX. Sendbird UIKit for iOS is essentially a combination of user interface tooling and the Sendbird Chat SDK for iOS … | Continue reading
A security researcher recently noticed what he called "suspicious" API calls when ordering a Starbucks gift card. Because Starbucks runs a bug bounty program, Curry dug a little more. Soon thereafter, Curry found Starbucks had potentially exposed personal records of around 100 mi … | Continue reading
Google Maps recently celebrated its 15th birthday. As part of that celebration, the Maps team announced a number of new beta features, and a roadmap for making the next 15 years even more powerful than the first. Of all the features Google is adding, customization is the common t … | Continue reading
This article will run down the three most common vulnerabilities one may encounter in a Ruby on Rails API only app. However, some of the concepts will apply regardless of which platform you're using and you should investigate what tooling is available for your platform if you're … | Continue reading
The Google Maps team has announced the beta launch of Local Context. With Local Context, site and app owners can integrate the typical Google Map experience into their properties, but that experience is amplified with rich, local information (e.g. shops, restaurants, etc.). | Continue reading
This article outlines the definition and essential purpose of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). To set up the definition of JSON, a few key terms will be clarified, along with the coding standard used to give a uniform appearance, and a specific set of use guidelines and best pr … | Continue reading
There comes a time in every web developer's life when they will need to shorten a URL. Developers wishing to take advantage of URL shortening technology will want to seek out URL Shortener APIs. In this article we detail the ten most popular ones, according to ProgrammableWeb rea … | Continue reading
Sixteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including CRM, Coronavirus, and Weather. Highlights include the MyRadar API for nowcasting, an API for detecting human temperatures, and several NICE inContact APIs. Here's a rundown of the latest additio … | Continue reading
HSBC Hong Kong has announced a new API that aims to support more advanced payment collection options. Using the new API developers will gain access to instant electronic Direct Debit Authorisation (eDDA) and real-time payment transfer functionality. | Continue reading
What do you do when you've reached the point where you need to extend your CMS? Do you hire the job out to a developer or try to work directly with the API for your CMS? This article considers why you might hire a developer, why you should investigate APIs, and how to choose betw … | Continue reading
Bluestream Health is launching Bluestream+, a "virtual visit" API platform for all healthcare organizations and technology companies. Bluestream+ API subscribers will be able to rapidly transform their existing applications and websites into world-class telehealth platforms. | Continue reading
Coinbase announced the launch of Rosetta. Rosetta is an open source specification and set of associated tools that helps developers integrate blockchain into the applications and systems. Since its founding, Coinbase has preached the need for openness, and Rosetta is the next log … | Continue reading
Localizing an application opens your reachable market to additional audiences on the other side of current language barriers. In this article, we'll show you how to get started with Google's Cloud Translation API so you can add language auto-translation capabilities to apps and w … | Continue reading
Google this week made more tools available to developers for customizing app interactions with Google Assistant. By releasing Actions Builder and Actions SDK, Google says developers can build their own conversational actions for Assistant faster than ever. Here's what you need to … | Continue reading
Google has provided another helpful reminder that the Google Ads API beta (V1) will be sunset on July 29, 2020. The company is warning developers that if they do not migrate to a newer version of the API it may result in breaking changes for applications relying on the data. | Continue reading
BurstIQ, a provider of blockchain-based data solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today the beta release of the BurstChain SDK, including a set of key accelerator tools that allow application developers to rapidly deploy applications and services on the BurstIQ Platf … | Continue reading
Redox, a provider of an interoperability platform for healthcare data exchange, has recently teamed with FDA-authorized COVID-19 testing company Curative to send COVID-19 test results to various state public health departments. This partnership has seen projects launched in 24 st … | Continue reading
Thirty-two APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Data, Documents, and Financial. Highlights include an API for business records fiscalization, and API for data dashboards, and APIs from Precisely for data accuracy. Here's a rundown of the l … | Continue reading
IntelligenceBank, a provider of marketing operations software for content marketers, has announced a new solution that extends the capabilities of the company’s API. The new solution is called Handshakes and is designed to provide workflow integrations to accelerate innovation o … | Continue reading
Design is important in many aspects of development which is especially true for development that drives UX. We've learned that API design can have a profound impact on user interfaces and thus user experiences. Poorly designed APIs can lead to awkward, unnatural, or inefficient w … | Continue reading
PartnerMatrix introduces new API development which helps casino and betting websites to have a better understanding of their affiliate marketing programs. The real-time data API feature allows Affiliate Managers to track users’ actions in real-time. | Continue reading
Ekata has announced its latest addition to its identity verification dataset. The new feature, Network Score, uses machine learning to better identify good customers and bad customers. Based on activity pattern analysis, Network Score flags potentially risky digital transactions. | Continue reading
Yubico recently made its Android SDK available to developers, who can now build support for YubiKey directly into their Android apps. The Android SDK joins the company's iOS SDK, which means developers can create a consistent log-in experience across their mobile apps no matter t … | Continue reading
The Construction Specifications Institute has announced a new platform aimed at consolidating resources for working with various construction industry organizational formats. This new platform, which has been dubbed CROSSWALK, provides an API that should enable more agile constr … | Continue reading
Hoss, a Y-combinator backed startup, launched an API tracking and management platform today. The platform allows companies to track, monitor, and manage all the APIs consumed by their business across the board. The platform launches as API adoption continues to increase but monit … | Continue reading
Over the past three months, as COVID-19 has proliferated, ProgrammableWeb has been tracking APIs that provide access to data related to the pandemic. The World Health Organization now reports that the virus has infected more than 4,000,000 people across more than 200 countries. | Continue reading
A few thousand satellites are orbiting Earth at the moment, providing communications, navigation, and gathering data such as Earth imagery. Developers wishing to create applications that connect to these satellites should check out ProgrammableWeb for APIs. Here are the top ten o … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Financial, Payments, and Messaging. Highlights include the ProjectManager API for integrating with project management software, and the Devo API for security ops functions. Here's a rundown of th … | Continue reading
Recently GitLab, an application for the DevOps lifecycle, announced it acquired Peach Tech, a security software firm specializing in protocol fuzz testing and dynamic application security testing (DAST) API testing, and Fuzzit, a continuous fuzz testing solution providing covera … | Continue reading
Salesforce, along with its subsidiaries MuleSoft and Tableau, recently launched a collection of tools designed to aid organizations in the development of safe back-to-work strategies and emergency response projects in an effort to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
OpenAI has announced an API for accessing new AI models it develops. The new API takes a different approach from typical AI systems. Most AI systems are designed for specific use cases. OpenAI considers its offering a "general-purpose" AI system provided by a "text in, text out i … | Continue reading
Along with the recently released Android 11 beta, Google has made a new version of Android Studio available to developers. Android Studio 4.1 Beta and Android Studio 4.2 Canary are here to help developers target Android 11 and its new set of APIs.You'll find updates to Kotlin, Je … | Continue reading
Google this week released the first public beta of Android 11. The build is available to developers and everyday Android fans alike and works on most Pixel phones. Together with a new version of Android Studio and a raft of fresh APIs, developers can take advantage of the latest … | Continue reading
Vue.js, a progressive JavaScript framework, is expected to release 3.0 for general availability by the end of this month. The beta version of 3.0 has been around for a few months now, and the Vue team has updated the roadmap for an official release in Q2 of 2020. 2.7 is the last … | Continue reading
ZenSports has debuted a new API to provide programmatic access to the company’s sports betting functionality that underlies the ZenSports mobile application. With this addition, ZenSports is hoping to provide developers and sports betters with a simplified method for handling be … | Continue reading
Direct Communication Solutions (DCS) has opened up access to its IoT services through an API. Through the API, third party developers will be able to integrate DCS with their IoT and GPS device interfaces. The goal of the API is to provide a single source for such integrations. | Continue reading
NXTsoft today announced the launch of OmniSecure, an API-monitoring solution that provides an additional layer of cybersecurity to NXTsoft's secure APIs. OmniSecure monitors API security logs 24/7 and reports anomalies and suspicious activities so that immediate action can be tak … | Continue reading
Planet Labs Inc., a provider of high-resolution imaging solutions via their SkySat satellite constellation, has announced plans to release a cloud-based dashboard and accompanying API. Partnering companies will be able to use the new tools to automate satellite imaging task requ … | Continue reading
The best APIs are built with design ground rules rooted in common sense. A uniting governance based on rigorous standards, knowing your target developers well, thoughtful nomenclature, and giving the support assets as much attention as the main product. | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Recreation, Location, and eCommerce. Highlights include an API that offers food substitutions, and API that reads license plates, and an API for Stackpile installation tool. Here's a rundown of t … | Continue reading