Facebook's Moments App Does C++ for Cross-Platform Development

One of the most recent Facebook’s apps, Moments, is using C++ to share its business logic across iOS and Android, Facebook’s engineers Ashwin Bharambe, Zack Gomez, Will Ruben explain. Here we review Facebook engineers rationale for that choice and its outcomes.

Amazon Releases Cloud Drive SDK for Android and iOS

A new SDK from Amazon will make it possible for Android and iOS developers to support Amazon Cloud Drive in their apps, says David Isbitski, principal evangelist at Amazon.

AWS s2n: Open-source TLS Implementation in Less than 6,000 Lines

Amazon Web Services has recently introduced s2n, short for “signal to noise”, an open-source implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols that aims to be “simple, small, fast, and with security as a priority”.

Google Brings Material Design to CSS, HTML, and JavaScript

Google Material Design Lite) (MDL) aims to enable material design look and feel for websites. Material design is a visual language that is standard on Android and that Google is proposing cross-platform.

Qt 5.5 Adds New GL Modules, Improves Cross-platform Support

Coming only six months after the release of Qt 5.4, Qt 5.5 fixes almost 1500 reported bugs and adds new features, while also ensuring that it will be ready for Windows 10 on time, improving Linux compatibility and OS X parity.