By Hemal Shah, Product Manager
Coming off Fabric’s biggest year yet, the team was excited to get back to work and continue building tools you love. In January, we kicked off 2016 by shipping major feature upgrades for fastlane and several kits on Fabric.
fastlane: tvOS support on Deliver and Scan
Since fastlane officially joined the Fabric team last fall, we've been heads down building out the service to make lives easier for even more developers, starting with the Apple TV. Now, you can use fastlane’s “Deliver” and “Scan” tools for your tvOS apps. Learn more or get started with fastlane here!
Answers Kit: Bringing the #1 mobile analytics tool to OS X
In January, the Answers team released Answers for OS X to help you keep a constant pulse on your OS X apps. Now, you have the same suite of powerful tools you’ve come to enjoy with Answers for iOS — all seamlessly working for your apps on Mac.
Read more in the Answers January Update.
Crashlytics Kit: Logging NSErrors
Over at Crashlytics, the team worked around the clock extending the #1 crash reporting experience to non-fatal errors on iOS. With the latest upgrade, you can easily log and fix the most prevalent crashes and non-fatals on Apple devices, all in real time.
Read more in the Crashlytics January Update.
Brand New Integration: Digits Kit + Answers Kit
Many of you have told the Digits team that having actionable insights over your user conversion funnel through Digits would be immensely helpful in growing your user base. With the new Digits Kit and Answers Kit integration, your team will now have visibility into how many of your customers are using Digits' simple onboarding flows — all in real time.
Read more in the Digits January Update.
GameAnalytics and PubNub Now Available on Fabric
In January, we were thrilled to announce that more partners, GameAnalytics and PubNub, have made their kits available on Fabric! You can install or update them with a single click. We take care of all the grunt work like provisioning your keys, so if you already have a GameAnalytics or PubNub account, you can easily onboard your app.
Read more in the original announcement!
Announcing the 2016 #HelloWorld Tour
At Twitter Flight, Jack Dorsey asked developers to give feedback and ideas on how we could enhance the Twitter platform, including Fabric, to better serve you. We’ve been listening to your comments — and now we want to meet more of you in person, learn more about what you’re building, and share the cool stuff we've been working on.
That's why just a few weeks ago, the Twitter team announced an international #HelloWorld developer tour. We're super excited to help with this initiative, and we can’t wait to bring the tour to your city!
Interested in joining us? Learn more about the #HelloWorld tour here.
Here’s our internal changelog:
Fabric Platform
iOS, OS X and tvOS
Changed where Fabric preferences are stored on OS X, to comply with Mac App Store policies
Crashlytics Kit
Digits Kit
Twitter Kit
Android
Added basic photo viewer
Added custom controls for video playback
Enabled looping for animated gifs
iOS
Fixed logging bug
Fixed the include non-modular header import
Fixed right-to-left text Tweet text alignment
Fixed reload of timeline when image viewer is dismissed
Updated video support including auto-looping GIF and media type pill
Fixed for include non-modular header import
MoPub Kit