The second day of F8 focused on the long-term investments we’re making in AI and AR/VR. In the opening keynote, Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer talked about the AI tools we’re using to address a range of challenges across our products — and why he’s optimistic about what comes next. Here are some of the top developer stories from Day 2 of...
To simplify the app review process, we are merging the Instagram and Marketing API App Review sections into general App Review. To improve our communications, we are also launching enhancements to our notifications to make them more discoverable and actionable.App review products mergingPreviously, developers requesting Marketing API and Instagram...
May 01 2019
The Messenger team hosted breakout sessions at F8 yesterday. Here are highlights from the sessions, and links to watch the recordings.Lighter, Faster, Simpler MessengerIn this session, Software Engineers Joshua Everson and Jeremy Fein shared how they are rebuilding the infrastructure of Messenger from the ground up to deliver a Lighter, Faster,...
Since its release just a few months ago, PyTorch 1.0 has been rapidly adopted as a powerful, flexible deep learning platform that enables engineers and researchers to move quickly from research to production. As part of Facebook’s F8 Conference this year, we are highlighting some of the ways the AI engineering and research community is using...
May 01 2019
Today, we kicked off our annual developer conference in San Jose, California. Thousands of developers, creators, entrepreneurs and innovators from around the world gathered at F8 to learn about the latest technology from our family of apps and the future we're building together. Mark Zuckerberg opened the two-day event with a keynote on how we're...
Today we're announcing the launch of the Facebook Developer Community Forum designed for use by developers building tools and experiences using our platform. The Facebook Developer Community Forum is built with developers in mind. The forum is available for developers to ask and answer questions relating to apps and app development on Facebook. We...
We're releasing the SDK to integrate WhatsApp verification into Account Kit for iOS and Android. Developers can now give people the option to use WhatsApp to send verification codes as an alternative to SMS for phone number login. This has been available on the web SDK since late 2018. Account Kit helps you grow your app or website by giving people...
April 30 2019
In 2017, we introduced the world to a powerful AR software suite called AR Studio. Since then, we've worked with a tremendous, global community of creators and developers to help shape and define the Spark AR platform. In fact, since last year's F8, over one billion people have used AR experiences powered by Spark AR. Hundreds of millions of people...
April 30 2019
We've released Marketing API, version 3.3. Below is a highlight of updates. To learn more about new features, updates, deprecations, and impacts, see the Marketing API v3.3 changelog.Ads ManagementDeprecated custom_overlay_spec field in link_data, photo_data and video_data in the object_story_spec field for ad creatives. Text overlays on top of...
April 30 2019
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