Facebook tools open-source developers for iOS

Annual conference F8 Facebook in San Francisco is aimed at developers, but larger company announcements so far have been much more focused on new things for Facebook users to dig into, like a camera that records video 360 degrees, messenger chatbots, and for storage at Facebook button for reading articles later. But the company also shared some developer news, as tools that make applications easier to build iOS.

During F8 on Wednesday, Facebook announced that code only open two tools for iOS developers so they can create applications much faster: Reshape, a tool for code generation Objective-C, which provides a quick way for developers data flow around their applications and batch management of iOS memory, which includes tools such as the Detector Retain cycles, which will help prevent accidents memory in your application. If memory is leaking, this tool is the source from the beginning in the encoding process without having to manually search down.

"Memory on mobile devices is a shared resource," Greg Pstrucha wrote in a blog on Wednesday announcing the tools. "Applications that manage unduly run out of memory, shock, and suffer drastically decreased performance. Facebook for iOS has many features that share the same memory space. If any specific feature begins to consume too much memory, which can affect all the application ".

In January, Facebook closed its Parse, its mobile application development toolkit that helped developers focus more on building great apps and spend less time managing back end. The network focuses on other efforts, such as chatbots and live video, but maintains that help developers is still part of their mission. This is something most of us do not see, but is essential to the way we use our applications and iPhones.

Facebook is all about open outsourcing almost all code, hardware, whatever and Facebook probably has open for others are based. Making it easier for developers to create applications using Facebook puts more users in the Facebook ecosystem, which is a clear win for the company as it works to make live video and chatbots more popular. support third-party applications and hardware manufacturers is a key part of these efforts. However, development tools also presumably make those applications best use, despite the Facebook application for iOS has not been the most popular in recent times, some have reported that the Facebook application still too many resources sucks and iPhone battery drains much more than it should, even after Facebook promised to fix it.