The platform includes hardware, software and an API.
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SmartThings covers this base with a software development kit and a API that seeks to provide everything a good software hacker needs to integrate SmartThings devices into his or her apps.
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Interested developers can find a link to submit innovative ideas, and sign up for the latest information and news about the SYNC application programming interface (API) and software development kit (SDK).
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For instance, Google will ban developers from distributing their client software outside of the Google Mirror API Client distribution channel for Glass.
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Outside software developers were also promised the coding or API's (application programming interfaces) that Windows developers have for programs like Microsoft Office.
None, as it turns out -- API support for the firm's mug recognition software will be dropped in early August, and its iPhone app, Klik, is now gone from the App Store.
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And Oracle, the software, hardware, and database company, recently announced its Cloud API managing infrastructure.
Jolicloud is a stripped down operating system that, instead of running software, connects to Web services using their application programming interface (API).
The White House development team drew on feedback from the hackthaon to improve the API and is adding code from its projects to a software development kit (SDK).
The software interface for Glass is a type of web app called the Mirror API, and not a full-blown operating system like Android.
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Not only did the intrepid forum goer grapple with the OpenGL API to devise the solution, but they also created the altered software before their own Rift dev kit arrived, relying on others to provide feedback for tweaking.
For now, it appears that the API Copyright Troll concept is limited to the particular case of Java, software created corporate owners (Sun) who chose to make it free and open source, but was then purchased by a company (Oracle) that has had enormous success in selling licenses and services for the software it developed.
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