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Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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It's also the name of a rad nightclub in London. http://www.fabriclondon.com/

It's also the name of a JavaScript HTML5 canvas library: http://fabricjs.com/

It's also, most confusingly to me, the name of Facebook's datacenter design.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/facebook-fabric-an-innov...

Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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Not to be confused with...

Fabric - A platform for secure distributed computation and storage https://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/papers/fabric-sosp09.pdf

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/fabric/

From the place that brought us practical, cutting-edge security like JIF, SIF, SWIFT, and CIVITAS. Link below gets you to most of that:

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/jif/

Then there's this Fabric which probably has different security properties. ;)

Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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Definitely a good start. I'm hoping they add Answers integration to the app quickly as that is one of the more impactful Fabric uses for us.

Hey! I am the PM on the Fabric app. Answers is a key part of our app and powers the top level charts, as well as our stability alerts. Would love to hear more about what other data from Answers would be the most helpful to you :)

Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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FYI it's built using Swift and ReactiveCocoa. They put up all the dependencies licenses in Settings so I made a list of the packages they use https://gist.github.com/ropiku/b259f35060a40eab1597 .

it's the second time this week i hear about reactive cocoa.I'm starting to hate uikit with a passion, but what's so special about it ?

I use the ObjC ReactiveCocoa in a big project and, albeit the idea behind it is very nice the lack of debug integration is hard. No the framework issue - but lldb is not good at this kind of tracing... Even, if, to be honest the way RAC is integrated into the app is maybe the issue. The story is a bit better on Swift, because some part of the reactive ideas are "built in"(mapping, filtering), but it still can be hard to understand the flow of the app.

Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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Definitely a good start. I'm hoping they add Answers integration to the app quickly as that is one of the more impactful Fabric uses for us.

Hey! I am the PM on the Fabric app. Answers is a key part of our app and powers the top level charts, as well as our stability alerts. Would love to hear more about what other data from Answers would be the most helpful to you :)

you should try moblyapp.com, a fabric client. It has answers & custom events too. check it out. #mobly

Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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iOS engineer who worked on the Fabric app here :) I gave a talk about this topic at a Swift conference last year, if you wanna check that out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ent6LJDIB3I

Maybe you can answer who was the person that decided that your library was so special that you have to use a damn application to add it to a project, rather than use the same exact procedures to add a library that every other library uses? No, I don't want to use your application to add the library, and no, I don't want to have to go through the onboarding every single time I need to add it or update it.

i was really hesitant when i saw how fabric is supposed to be installed, using a mac app, but i've got to admit that it's a really pleasant experience so far.
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