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…
Starting with Lightstreamer 7, we introduced a new license verification mechanism known as the Cloud License Manager (CLM). With CLM, licensing is handled online, eliminating the need for license files tied to the MAC address of the hosting machine, greatly enhancing flexibility. In earlier versions of Lightstreamer, you were required to install a static license…
For the last few years, Lightstreamer has been organized into four different editions, which got their names from Italian musical tempo terms, namely Moderato, Allegro, Presto, and Vivace. Now, with the upcoming release of Lightstreamer 7, the editions are going to change, to offer maximum flexibility to our customers. In this post, we will explain…
With the upcoming release of Lightstreamer 7.0, and its beta 2 already available for you to test, Mobile Push Notifications APIs jump on the Unified Client API model with SDKs version 4.0, employing a new asynchronous model and delivering all the latest features of iOS and Android push notifications. In this blog post we take…
After a month of beta testing, we released the final version of our SDKs for iOS, macOS and tvOS version 3.0.0. Version 3.0.0 introduces: Check the beta introductory article for full details and examples. The new SDKs are available through CocoaPods or via direct download, as usual. Native demo projects on GitHub and on the App Store have also been updated to version 3.0.0…
We have recently released a new version of the SDKs for iOS, macOS and tvOS: 3.0.0 beta. This version introduces a new major feature: support for WebSockets, together with a completely revised documentation and a plethora of minor improvements and bug fixes. See below for more details. Note: if you need download and example pointers, jump directly to the…
Google recently made Kotlin an official application development language for Android. We are very excited to announce that the new version of the Lightstreamer client API for Android embraces Kotlin. By ensuring full support for both Kotlin and Java, the library enables developers to choose their favorite programming language or even mix them. Why Kotlin?…
We are very excited to announce general availability of Lightstreamer Server 6.1, which includes many new features and improvements. Lightstreamer now speaks a brand new protocol, called TLCP. The Android and Java SE client libraries use the new protocol and natively support WebSockets. The iOS client library has become more Swift-friendly. A new client library is available for Microsoft .NET PCL, replacing older .NET, Windows…
The Swift language is designed to be as interoperable as possible with Objective-C. This goal is generally fulfilled, but an area still remains where the two languages don’t interoperate as well as one would expect: exception handling. Objective-C provides complete try-catch-finally semantics for exception handling, with full stack unwinding. While Cocoa and CocoaTouch conventions discourage…
We recently released version 2.1.0 of our SDKs for iOS, macOS and tvOS. This version introduces some important changes: See below for more details. Note: if you need download and example pointers, jump directly to the end of the post (“Get the SDKs”). Importing the Client Library Since SDKs are now packaged as a framework, there are…