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Slide over, Twitter — after this fall, you won’t be the only social network in town with OS-level integration on the iPod touch, iPad and iPhone. As announced back at WWDC in June, Facebook will be on a level playing field with the launch of iOS 6, and the outfit’s new SDK 3.0 Beta is exactly what developers need to get there. Among other things, the new code promises superior user session management, ready-to-use native UI views, bolstered Facebook API support and an iOS Developer Center to get folks grounded on “key concepts.” After iOS 6 launches en masse, this SDK will “automatically use the native Facebook Login in iOS 6 when available,” providing a similar experience to Twitter in terms of seamless logins. Ready to get cranking? Get your download on in the source link below.

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Facebook SDK 3.0 Beta for iOS now available to download, includes tight integration plans for iOS 6 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ma Bell’s been hard at work on its Watson speech recognition system for years, and 2012 has seen the tech show up in an automobile and a real-time translator app. Months after announcing it would grant Watson’s skills to the developer masses, AT&T has made good on its promise and officially released its Speech API. In case you forgot, AT&T’s Nuance competitor’s been tailored for different use cases — including voice web search, voicemail-to-text and talk-to-text — so that it can offer contextually accurate results in any app. If you’re among the coders itchin’ to test out Watson’s capabilities, head on past the break for a promotional video, then click the source below to sign up for access.

Continue reading AT&T officially releases Watson speech API, gives devs a bit of babel fish for their apps

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AT&T officially releases Watson speech API, gives devs a bit of babel fish for their apps originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Facebook’s App Center is having its passport stamped quite a lot lately. Just days after the HTML5 app portal set foot in the UK, it’s making the leap to seven more countries. Brazil, France, Germany, Russia, Spain, Taiwan and Turkey will all get a crack at using web apps both on the desktop as well as in the Android and iOS native clients. The new group is coming onboard in the next few weeks. In the meantime, countries where English makes a frequent appearance — Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and the US — now supply the App Center for every single user. To help speed along the virtual customs claims, Facebook is trotting out a translation tool to get developers on the right track. It shouldn’t be long before App Center is a mainstay of the entire Facebook world, even though we may end up cursing the company after hour three of a Jetpack Joyride marathon.

Continue reading Facebook App Center goes globetrotting with 7 new countries, blankets all of the English-speaking world

Facebook App Center goes globetrotting with 7 new countries, blankets all of the English-speaking world originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember when Facebook acquired face.com last month? Face.com reported at the time that it planned to continue to support its developer community. I think most of those developers suspected that wasn’t an accurate statement when it was made, and that inaccuracy has now been confirmed.

API support for face.com’s face detection software is going to be ended in early August. The official face.com Kilk app has already been removed from the App Store as well. There are sure to be some angry developers after face.com said about a month ago it would continue to support its developer community only to announce that support is officially ending.

Some developers are calling for boycotts, and others are saying that have wasted months of work with the API now been canceled. However, there is one report of a member of the face.com developer community saying he was granted an API extension through October. At least that would give the developer time to figure out an alternative rather than simply scrapping the app.

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Face.com shutters API support is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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For all of Google’s emphasis on integrating its own services across Android, playing YouTube videos outside of the official YouTube app has usually required losing some piece of the experience, whether it’s backwards compatibility, mobile optimization or just keeping viewers in the same app where they started. As it turns out, Google was well aware of this problem during Google I/O this year and teased a solution while everyone else was still recovering from their Nexus 7-induced fevers. A new YouTube Android Player API will let third parties integrate a full YouTube player into their Android apps with adaptive streaming, orientation and other special tricks intact. Any Android 2.2 or later device (including Google TV boxes) can come along for the ride, and views will count towards producers getting paid. Full details are only coming in the next few months, but app developers who’ve been craving a chance to slip in some viral videos can get an early look at the API near the start of the session video below — or just load the Google I/O 2012 app, which has the code baked in.

Continue reading Google slips out YouTube Android Player API, third-party apps get full Nyan Cat experience (video)

Google slips out YouTube Android Player API, third-party apps get full Nyan Cat experience (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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