Buddy cloud platform for Windows Phone officially launches [Developers]

Just some Buddy that I used to know...

If you're a Windows Phone 7 developer, you would probably accept heard us talk about this Kirkland, Wash. startup. To epitomize, it was founded by David McLauchlan (CEO), and Jeff MacDuff (CTO). Both are sometime Microsoft employees with Dave doing work on the Zune hardware business concern amidst others, and Jeff working on a range of products including that Windows Phone 7 yous're clutching.

Although the platform has been out since concluding year, upwards until now it has been in beta. But today they have finally hit v1, forth with a bunch of exciting announcements.

And then what'due south new? Well, in addition to the info in the quote below, Buddy has now got support for the Aviary image filters - which has recently been included in Rowi. Along with that, there is at present a native .NET SDK which makes it absolutely painless to utilise the platform in your own app, plus is the first SDK that supports Windows viii! I have personally used the SDK in a Windows eight app, and it was simpler than the time I stole candy from a baby (I didn't really, hope). The SDK besides successfully passes the Windows App Certification Kit (WACK), which is required to publish apps into the Shop, and is failed by pretty much every other 3'rd political party library due to broken dependencies.

Nosotros know what you're thinking though...what skilful is a press release without an infographic? So nosotros have 2, just for you (and the thousands of others like yous)...

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The abridged press-release follows:

Buddy Platform, Inc. NEWS SNAPSHOT:

Buddy is announcing the initial endmost of our $1 meg seed round, concurrent with the full public release of our backend equally a service platform
- Seed circular was led by Bay Area VC "Transmedia Uppercase", with participation by Bay Area VC "Crestlight Venture Productions"
- Angels from Seattle, California, Colorado, Taiwan and Commonwealth of australia participated in the round

We're announcing that over half dozen,000 developers are developing apps using Buddy, and and so far more than than 5,500 apps are in various stages of development with united states

Buddy is announcing the world'due south start back stop equally a service .NET SDK designed specifically for Windows eight application developers

We're announcing that amongst the new APIs and functionality being released tomorrow, is back up for Aviary.com image filters accessible via Buddy APIs for whatsoever connected device and any Os platform. This is a huge win for developers looking for "Instagram-style" epitome filters without needing a full SDK, and will bring Aviary-functionality to emerging platforms like SmartTVs, web apps, etc…

We're releasing a new website, overhauled developer documentation and a completely new "Developer Dashboard" which shows in existent-time the electric current functioning and activity of an app
- You can see information technology in activity by visiting http://dev.buddy.com and logging in with demo@buddy.com, password is "demo"

To celebrate our launch, nosotros're offer free access to the Platform for up to 2 million API calls per month, through July 31st 2022.

The platform is also gratuitous until August - so hit the link below to sign up!

Source: Buddy

The AT&T version of Surface Duo is now getting Android 11

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The AT&T version of Surface Duo is now getting Android xi

After a very long expect, the original Surface Duo is at present eligible to receive its over-the-air Os update to Android 11. Here is what is new and fixed with the biggest update yet for Microsoft's beginning dual-screen Android device.