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Facebook: 3 New Open-Source Tools For Android Developers

By on April 14, 2015
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Most of Facebook’s announcements at last F8 developer conference were iOS-centric, but the company also released three new open source tools for Android developers.

The Tools are:

  1. Year Class, that is meant to help developers quickly figure out what kind of device a user is running. Thanks to this, a developer can quickly tune an app for an older device by turning on some advanced animations, for example, or enable fancier features for more modern phones. For the most part, the tools use CPU speed, as well as the number of available cores and RAM to determine the “year class” of a given device
  2. Network Connection Class, does something similar, but for network connections. Turns out, just knowing that a user is on an HSPA connection doesn’t actually tell you all that much about the actual network speed. According to Facebook, the speed of HSPA connection can vary by 5x between networks, for example
  3. Fresco is a new image library for Android apps. The idea here is to ensure that apps don’t run out of memory when they load multiple images by being smarter about memory management (those GIFs can get huge, after all) and streaming images when possible.

more details at Facebook Launches 3 New Open-Source Tools For Android Developers | TechCrunch.

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