Join Dan Quagliana as he interviews Doddle’s Gary O’Connor, CTO and Ben Rodway, Head of Technology about becoming an ISV, their takeaways from Zebra’s last APPFORUM and what’s in store for them in 2019 as they are Early Adopter Partners

IN THIS ISSUE: Qualcomm Invests in AI; Researchers Hack Fingerprints; Developing IoT Apps; Sprint's 5G Rollout; Blockchain as a Service; IT Losing Control

Qualcomm's $100M AI Investment

Qualcomm Ventures, the chip-maker's investment arm, has launched the AI Fund to spur growth in artificial intelligence start-ups.

It is not news for Android developers that following Google’s announcement of Kotlin support during Google I/O 2017, Google have embraced Kotlin as the preferred development language for Android, even to the extent that the “Build your first app” tutorial on the Android developer site will default to showing Kotlin code.

The next generation of .NET is now live!  The newest version of the Link-OS SDK for printing integrates the latest in .NET technology to provide many options for your development with a reusable code base you can easily use in multiple style applications.  This SDK now supports .NET Framework (v4.7+) and .NET Core (v2.0).  This gives the SDK the flexibility to be integrated into your Xamarin, PC, Android, and iOS apps using Visual Studio.

IN THIS ISSUE: Kotlin Improves Stability; Google Toughens Captcha; Kilogram Redefined?; Another Spectre, Meltdown Security Scare; Developing a GPS Replacement; Google Gears Firebase for the Enterprise

Kotlin 1.3 Improves Stability, Beta-tests Native Execution

Code written with the latest release of the Kotlin JVM-compliant language can now be executed without a virtual machine.

Learn about Voice Input for DataWedge in our next DEVTALK.

Voice Input enables DataWedge to convert spoken entries into keystrokes as if they were typed or acquired from a scan and uses the Google speech recognition engine included on GMS devices.

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Many of Zebra’s enterprise Android devices will find themselves running either offline or in a partially connected environment; be it in a warehouse, retail store or on the road with intermittent 2G coverage the device will not always be able to communicate with the back-end system.

IN THIS ISSUE: IBM Acquires Red Hat; Windows S Client for Teams EOL; What Gorilla Glass Does Best; Google Boosts Account Security; Smart Glasses for the Deaf; Better Background Execution on Android

   Ginni Rometty, chairman, president and CEO of IBM, (right), and James M. Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat.

EMDK for Android 7.0 was recently released supporting a slew of new devices, enhancements to the Barcode API and adding support for Android Oreo alongside the existing Nougat and Marshmallow.

React Native is a cross platform mobile application development framework, it is an open source project promoted by Facebook and launched back in 2015 based on the React architecture and allows developers to create native-feeling applications in JavaScript.  React Native is distinct from so-called “hybrid frameworks” such as Ionic or Cordova; whereas the latter render the application within a WebView, React Native applications are truly native (sometimes called hybrid-native) applications which can arguably lead to performance improvements over the hybrid approach, particularly in reg