New Products from Twitter to Help Skyrocket Your Apps

Last week, our team had the chance to attend the new Twitter Flight conference in San Francisco. Being avid Crashlytics users even before their acquisition by Twitter, we were really excited about seeing what Twitter had to offer to developpers.

Since we switched almost all of our stack to Crashlytics, we were eager to discover the latest tools by Twitter. We were not disapointed about the news of a suite of tools to help developers create better products. Fabric packages all the tools offered by Twitter into a single easy to use SDK.

Fabric is like a super library containing seven nifty tools. First, there is Crashlytics: a tool that we are used to at Samsao. It now offers Answers to profile users, Betas to distribute beta versions to testers and Issues to receive crash reports. The great thing about Crashlytics is that it offers the same tools for iOS and Android, making it a near perfect platform for distribution and analysis. Fabric also includes the Twitter Sign In feature that is well-known to developers. Three new tools complete the Fabric suite: Tweet Embeds, Digits, and Mopub. Tweet Embeds, as the name suggests, let developers bring Twitter content into their apps. Digits is a library that looks super nice and claims to make it easier to add registration and authentication in your applications. Users can signup and login your application using only their phone number. Not only does this make the signup process extremely easy for your users, but it also offers a way to minimize their fear of privacy issues. We are really eager to test that one. Mopub makes it real easy to create ads that will fit right into the design of your application. They also have been around for some time before joining Twitter. The ad platform will not only try to find the best ad for your application, but it also has a marketplace where ad networks can bid to get an ad spot.

All in all the conference helped us discover new tools to offer to our customers to make sure their app is a success. On top of that, they had awesome cookies!