Software development in 2017 and what’s in store for 2018
Between iPhones and iPads there are almost 1 billion devices with iOS around the world. This operating system grows in popularity every year, and being able to develop for it is, and will continue to be, of vital importance to companies over the next years.
Developing is a crucial phase in the creation of a product, but having a marketing plan and skillfully carrying it out is the key to a successful application. You also need to know your users and reduce development faults to a minimum. Behind each app lies a vast work involving the conceptualization, design, development and testing of the software.
Google's two latest projects refer to the websites of the future and are mostly focused on content loading speed and user experience. These two issues have become an obsession for Google, not only in terms of the media but also as referents to the whole World Wide Web. If you want to know more about it, you can download this ebook.
Big data could be an extraordinary weapon in the fight against climate change. This is being demonstrated by the UN Global Pulse ‘Data for Climate Action’ project, a pioneering private-sector initiative providing data and tools for the fight against climate change, in which BBVA is fully engaged.
If you're a developer, you probably love finding recommendations within your community, while discussing your small or large discoveries about APIs. In this article, BBVAOpen4u reviews some of the most fun and original ones.
Álvaro Barbero, Chief Data Scientist at the Knowledge Engineering Institute in the Autónoma University (Madrid), talks about Docker, an open code technology that allows the creation, execution, testing and implementation of apps distributed in software containers.
Alejandro Guirao, developer at intelygenz, gives insight into Chaos Monkey, a tool that causes random system failures for resilience testing which is used by Netflix and is winning over other major companies.
2017 looks set to be the year of apps with artificial intelligence, the return of skeuomorphism in design, ever smaller microinteractions, chatbots, and JavaScript as a universal language. Here are some predictions for the coming year.
Android Studio 2.2 has integrated advantages for programmers that, in some cases, derive from new features in Android Nougat 7.0. They are improvements to agile application development and creation of visual user interfaces, among others.