InterState: A Language and Environment for Expressing Interface Behavior

InterState is a new programming language and environment aimed at addressing the challenges of writing and reusing user interface code. InterState’s creators Stephen Oney, Brad Myers, and Joel Brandt claim in their paper that InterState can help programmers to better understand, navigate, and reuse their GUI components even with complex interfaces involving thousands of objects.

Google Showcases Android Best Practices by Open-sourcing Google I/O App

Google has recently made available the source code of the 2014 version of the Google I/O app. The primary goal of this is to provide a practical example of best practices for Android app design and development, including essential features to most Android apps, and a customizable template for apps with similar features.

Racket 6.1 Released

PLT Design has released version 6.1 of Racket, its general purpose, multi-paradigm programming language belonging to the Lisp/Scheme family. Racket 6.1 introduces a new way of handling local recursive variable definitions and several other language features.

Parse Releases Official Open-source PHP SDK

Parse released the Parse PHP SDK, aimed at enabling Parse integration “for a new class of apps and different use cases.” The company also says that this is its “first SDK for a server-side language, and the first to be truly open-source.”

New Android Features for Project ARA to Become Part of Mainline Android

Google is working with Linaro to develop a special edition of Android to support specific features required for the Project Ara customizable smartphone, said Linaro CEO George Grey. This collaboration is aimed to make improvements and additional functionality in the Android ARA version “part of mainline Android,” Grey said.