We’re excited to announce the release of our newest demo. And no, this time it’s not a stock-list demo 😉
We switched things up a bit, and the new demo simulates a very simple departures board with a few rows showing real-time flight information to passengers of a hypothetical airport.
We recently introduced the Lightstreamer Flutter plugin to respond to the increasing requests dictated by the incredible success that the Flutter framework for creating multi-platform applications has been encountering for some years now. You can find the plugin in the official package repository for Dart and Flutter apps: https://pub.dev/packages/lightstreamer_flutter_client What is Flutter? Flutter is an open-source framework created by…
We are proud to announce that Lightstreamer 7.3 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 7.3 and the most recent client and adapter SDKs bring many improvements and fixes, mainly covering performance and features. Below are some…
Embedded in the factory download of the Lightstreamer server there is a Monitoring Dashboard ready for use. It is configured to work out of the box and provides many real-time metrics and statistics on the behavior of the Lightstreamer Server. But we are aware that this solution, which can be considered very useful in the initial…
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…