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Social media giant releases new open source tools to help developers make more money

At this unique gathering, Facebook shared its latest innovations and tools.See some of the new developer tools.

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Tech heads gathered at the F8 developers’ conference hosted by the social media giant-Facebook, from Wednesday 25th to Thursday 26 March 2015, in the city of San Francisco. At this unique gathering Facebook shared some of its latest innovations.

In a press release made available online, Facebook listed some new open source tools that will help developers earn money. Here are some of them:

Device Year Class: This is a sort of library which can be used to evaluate the specification of the mobile device as well as calculate as to which year the device can be considered as “high end”.

 Network Connection Class: This also works on almost same principle as above, however the main difference here is that it comprises of a library of the network connections instead of using the specifications of the hardware. This tool evaluates the current network traffic in the app and based on this it will categorize the quality of the network in the mobile device.

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Fresco: This is a new image library for Android apps. Basically in mobile device the storage is very limited and hence if users start storing multiple images then the app runs out of memory which  might lead to crash of the app. Hence a new image library Fresco has been introduced which smartly manages images and the memory they use.

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