I especially like Digits. Too may developers are reinventing the contacts list + SMS confirmation signup flow when they should be spending time building the core of their product.
@rrhoover Absolutely agree on Digits. On the business side, they get a cross-device universal identifier graph for ad targeting. Huge Mopub monetization benefits there, not to mention reliable offline data linking for ad campaign targeting or offline performance attribution.
@rrhoover +1 , we're definitely going to be integrating in our next build (considered rolling our own SSO via SMS using Twilio, but all the edge cases made us decide to make a post MVP item -- happy we made this choice now)
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@rrhoover I talked to one of the developers building it. On the short term roadmap (hopefully before EOY) there will be the ability to customize the look & feel beyond just picking the color scheme. That's going to be the driving force for me to use it. Happy to rip out my custom implementation that uses Twilio as soon as this can be done.
@MikeKhristo@rrhoover Digits != Fabric. Digits looks great, but the wrapper (Fabric) is a horrible idea. Package managers exist for exactly this reason, and distributing your library via an IDE-specific managed SDK is absolutely baffling to me. Should have been a package available via Gradle/Cocoapods (as all of the Fabric "kits" should have been) and everyone would have applauded Twitter.
Not to mention the headache the Twitter devs have in store maintaining potentially dozens of different IDEs...
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Only 3 Digits-powered apps at launch? We all totally trust Twitter now, right?
@sarahintampa Given the endpoint returns the user's phone number to the calling app, it looks like Twitter doesn't necessarily want to own the data. #hopeful
@sarahintampa I'm at the conference. Twitter have said that the data is isolated and secure, but it does concern me that we're handing over the entire social graph of our user's contacts to them. They've said that it won't be shared between apps, but they haven't said they won't use it themselves.
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@zemaj Heads up - your site is broken (css isn't loading)
@zemaj@sarahintampa Digits (the identity), and Digits (friend finding) are completely separate. You're free to use the identity service without using our friend finding service.
Hey hunters, Hemal here - I'm part of the Crashlytics team that built Fabric! Feel free to reach out me personally if you have any questions, I'd love to help.
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I'm here at Flight. As an avid Crashlytics user (and now Fabric), there's some very cool stuff happening as these tools converge.
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"Developers face many of the same challenges day-in and day-out: making their apps reliable, testing before going live, driving downloads, onboarding new users, engaging them, understanding their apps’ growth and monetizing. Each challenge presents a unique set of hurdles.
Our passion is building tools that make developers’ lives easier. This is why we’ve built Fabric: a modular, cross-platform mobile development suite that helps you solve any one – or all – of these challenges and build the best apps with the least effort."
Fabric has the potential to make (successful) mobile app development + launches far more accessible, and as a non-developer that excites me. Really neat to see Twitter expanding their reach.
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It was about time someone did this. Software is eating software development. congrats @miradu
Where is Twitter's unique advantage in this endeavor? This seems to be an entirely new product, completely unrelated to the existing Twitter product suite. Why? Is there some sort of connection I'm missing here that puts Twitter in a better position to deliver this sort of product?
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I am a huge fan of Crashlytics and will continue to use it and going to look into MoPub.
As a developer, I don't think I will ever use Digits since personally, as a user, I dislike giving apps my phone number as that is an identifier that will stick with me for a long time, unlike an email address where I can easily create a new one as I please.
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Such a great tool. I especially appreciate the menu bar utility, which makes it super simple to install, track and distribute versions.
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