f8- facebook developer conference
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F8 2016Facebook Developer Conference started in San Francisco from 12th-13th April.
F8 2016, as it’s fondly called, started with a packed house of more than 2,600 people and hundreds of thousands of people watched via Facebook Live.
Facebook announced some of its biggest news of the year and previews services and features that all of its users are going to see over the coming months.
Techugo is reporting live from the event announcements, just for our beloved readers to stay updated….
Messenger PlatformFacebook launched the beta version of the Messenger platform, opening up a set of APIs so developers can create their own chat bots.
To enable these types of conversational shopping experiences, Facebook debuted a send/receive API that supports the transfer of text, images, and call-to-action buttons.
Facebook also showed off its new Bot Engine, the technology behind its intelligent assistant M, so developers can create more complex bots.
User simply need to feed the Bot Engine with sample conversations, and then it can handle any variation of that conver-sation on its own using AI machine learning.
VR Camera RigFacebook showed off a new camera rig called the Surround 360 Camera.
Its made up of 17 synchronized cameras that can shoot 8K video at 60 frames per second, the rig “spits out footage that’s ready to upload with very little post-processing.
Since Facebook is not planning to get in the camera business, so the open sourcing Surround 360 and will be shared its hardware design and stitching algorithm on Github this summer by the company.
Live VideoA week after the launch of live streaming on the social network, Facebook is ready to see what developers can do with the functionality.
Its new Live API will let third parties integrate Facebook’s live streaming capabilities into broadcasts.
Free Basics SimulatorTo encourage developers further, to think about the next billion internet users coming online, Facebook launched the Free Basics Simulator.
It allows the developers to see how their apps load over Free Basics, the free but limited internet service that Facebook provides in 37 countries by partnering with local wireless carriers.
It will also provide analytics tools so developers, whose sites are hand picked and featured on the Free Basics platform, can see the age and gender of their users.
Facebook, has partnered with telco companies, and has built a drone called Aquila and will deploy a satellite in the
New Developer KitsFacebook launched a Profile Expression Kit and Account Kit for the developers.
Profile Expression Kit lets developers integrate their photo apps into Facebook so users can select rich images, such as GIFs, as their profile pictures.
Account Kit makes it easy for users to sign up for accounts without a password. Apps that use Account Kit only require a phone number or email address to register. Instead of typing in a password, users enter a code that’s sent either to their mobile phones or to their Facebook accounts to log in.
More Goodies For DevelopersDevelopers that use Facebook Analytics for Apps, which was debuted at last year’s F8, will get better insights into their users with aggregated demographic data.
Also, new push and in-app notifications will let the developers send targeted messages to their users
Quote SharingThis feature will let users share quotes they find on the web or in apps with their Facebook friends.
A new Save Button will let them save articles, videos, websites, and other types of content outside of Facebook. Hashtag sharing lets developers suggest hashtags when users compose messages from the Facebook app.
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