Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are web applications that use the features of modern browsers to offer a native-app-like experience on every platform. They rest on three pillars: responsiveness, reliability, and installability. PWAs are responsive because they render well on a variety of devices and window sizes to ensure usability and user satisfaction. PWAs are reliable because they are usable…
We are delighted to announce that Lightstreamer 7.2 has been publicly released. You can download it right now from https://www.lightstreamer.com/download/ The official Docker image and the Amazon EC2 AMI are available too. Lightstreamer 7.2 and the most recent client and adapter SDKs bring many improvements and fixes, mainly covering performance and features. This, in many…
The latest version of our client SDKs for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS, version 4.3.0, is now distributed via Swift Package Manager and includes support for Apple Silicon Macs. At the same time, with this version, we are dismissing CocoaPods as a package manager. The last version available on CocoaPods is and always will be version 4.2.1….
We have started the beta testing of the new Lightstreamer Web Client library, v. 8.1.0. The main difference with the previous version is in the connection setup mechanism, also known as stream-sense. With version 8.1.0, instead of creating a session over HTTP and then switching to WebSocket, a session is created directly over WebSocket, while preserving…
We are happy to announce that Lightstreamer Server v. 7.1.2 is now publicly available. You can download it, as usual, from https://lightstreamer.com/download/ This new distribution does not contain the Lightstreamer SDKs anymore. With time passing, every SDK has found its own home within standard repositories, depending on the platform. So, it makes no more sense to…
We are very excited to announce the availability of a brand new Lightstreamer client API for Microsoft .NET Standard specifications. What’s new The new library introduces full support for the Unified Client API model, which we have been introducing in all Lightstreamer client libraries for some years now (indeed the first “Unified” library was JavaScript 6.0)….
We are extremely proud to announce the public availability of Lightstreamer 7.1, the best Lightstreamer ever! Together with Lightstreamer Server 7.1, we released updated SDKs for Clients and Adapters. This release contains hundreds of exciting improvements, optimizations, and fixes. Some of the main new features are highlighted below. To learn about all the other improvements…
Introduction Most MQTT brokers currently available on the market provide native support for WebSockets, thus enabling any MQTT JavaScript library to establish communications by encapsulating MQTT messages into WebSocket frames: this is called MQTT Over WebSocket.The great benefit of this approach is to allow all modern browsers, including those running on smartphones, to send and…
Xamarin, or more precisely Xamarin.Forms, is a cross-platform UI toolkit that allows developers to efficiently create native user interface layouts that can be shared across iOS, Android, and Universal Windows Platform apps. Here at Lightstreamer we decided to create a new demo that, leveraging our .Net Standard Client API and Xamarin.Forms, shows how simple is, with very few lines of code, to create…
When dealing with mobile apps, the difference between real-time data streaming and push notifications is not always clear to everybody. Let’s try to delve into this topic. As you can see, mobile push notifications are the perfect means to reach a user when the mobile app is not running. Push notifications are natively supported by both Android and iOS devices,…
We are delighted to announce that Lightstreamer 7 has been publicly released. You can download it right now from https://www.lightstreamer.com/download/ The official Docker image and the Amazon EC2 AMI are available too. Lightstreamer 7 and the client SDKs include hundreds of improvements and fixes, covering performance, features, compatibility, and licensing. This makes Lightstreamer more solid and faster than ever. Below are…
If you are one of our customers (and if you are not, what are you waiting for?), you know the Lightstreamer company is customer driven. Whenever a customer requests a new feature, we do all we can to comply. So, when a customer asked us if we had a watchOS Client Library on the roadmap, during…