2015 - The Year Of OpenSource Development

It’s not about the coding, it’s about that how you use it to connect people to things they need.

From 3D printers to Docker, open-source Development is Stimulating some of the hottest digital capabilities of our time. It has become pervasive to market as an adhesive between modern communication and enterprise business models.
As 2015 fall into the end, Hire Mobile Developer listed the top open source developments that will push the technology and mobile app development in new directions. Following are the top 10 identified trends.

1. Company Open Closed Doors

The biggest development in open source in 2015 was the trend of well established proprietary software companies starting to release their products into open source. Such as Apple's Swift, Google's Go, Mozilla's Rust and AMD's GPUOpen.

2. Startup With Open Source

Major companies and big brand names are dealing with open source projects to stay ahead of the market and enhance engagement towards technologies. For example: Microsoft rolled out its Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit to work with machine learning across distributed system. Other big brands name such as LinkedIn, eBay and Facebook all also have launched big open source projects.

3. Education

Open source and education, both concepts that fit together and complement each other incredibly well. Both focus on transparency and sharing information. There are many projects rolled out to brings these two concepts together.
FOSSEE (Free and OpenSource Software For Education) is a project that improve the quality of instruction and learning and have a aim to create a constructive and innovative learning and teaching environment.

4. Ubuntu Wins The Credit

With being opensource, Ubuntu has become mainstream for server applications. Success stories surrounding Ubuntu Linux must be included in any list of key open source developments. It has always been at the top of the list for desktop applications.

5. Android Gets Better

Like any widely-used technological product, Android have also their own set of strengths and weaknesses, but this is the year for android with releasing Android Marshamallow and with having 80.7% of OS market share with its great features that makes it better than other.

6. Container Technology

In the market of open source technology, container technology is on trending. In which Docker takes the credit, which is the one of most talked community that has the biggest names in IT- including Hewlett Packard Enterprise and IBM.

7. Movement To The Artificial Intelligence

Open source makes move to deep machine learning with more accessible. Google recently open-sourced its machine learning toolbox, named TensorFlow will have a huge impact on the development of all things related to AI.

8. Hardware Evolution

From Raspberry Pi Zero with cost of 5$ to Facebook's Big-Sur hardware, evolution of hardware eliminates the barrier to learning programming and lower the hardware price among the market. The availability of cheap hardware will advance the rapid domination of open source tools across the board in the rest of the development community.

9. Rising With The JavaScript

2015 was a pivotal year for JavaScript and the entire stack of open source technologies that support its client-side and server-side platform From Microsoft's ChakraCore, Node.js to Angular, Meteor to React, the platform found its legs in 2015.

10. Cloud Platform That Gets The Beef

With OpenSource Technology, Cloud platform is becoming more coherent, user-friendly non-terminal/UI-based technologies like GitHub Desktop coming into the cloud, making these technologies much more accessible to the masses.
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Related Article:Infographic:Open-Source Development Trends In 2015

Walmart Enters Into Smartphone Payment System With Its Walmart Pay

Now Customers can use “Walmart Pay” on any iOS or Android smartphone at checkout lanes through the walmart app. It will be the first mobile payment system to be used in WalMart stores by customers through their smartphones.

On Last Thursday, Walmart launched its Walmart Pay app, a QR-code based mobile wallet that allows customers to purchase items with their smart-phones at all of the company’s stores. Users just have to access the wallet function within the pre-existing Walmart app and then scan a QR code at the register.

About 22 million customers actively use the Walmart app each month and its ranking among the top three retail apps in the google and apple app stores.

There are three steps to use, walmart pay:

Open, Scan and Done

Open: After visiting any register, open the walmart app and choose walmart pay and activate camera

Scan: During checkout time, simply scan the the code displayed at the register. Walmart pay is now connected.

Done: After scan, you can buy items and checkout, it's done. Now you will get a receipt on your app.

If you are a retailer and want to develop finance application and integrate it with this type of payment feature then hire mobile app developers from a dedicated mobile app development company. Hire Mobile Developer's main goal is to transform client’s vision into reality! Do contact us, we will be happy to discuss your requirements.

Reference and image source: Walmart