For developers using Zebra's EMDK for Android and have updated to Android Studio 2.3, please read the story immediately below. There's also news this week for developers using Visual Studio, MySQL, ReactJS and Docker, and not all of it is good.

EMDK for Android Bug Fix for Latest Android Studio

What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon, then programming?

Developers have been APPFORUM’s bread and butter crowd ever since Zebra began driving this event several years ago. And while we’re expanding the audience for this year’s conference to include anyone focused on architecting, developing, building, deploying or managing apps for the enterprise, we’ve planned—as we always do—targeted learning, amazing networking and a host of specialized sessions that speak straight to independent developers, end-users and ISVs.

The current version of EMDK For Android 6.x will not work if you have upgraded to the latest Android Studio release 2.3. You may not have noticed this unless you tried to use Profile Manager from the EMDK menu. While we plan on incorporating this into the next official release, we felt it was important to put out an immediate beta release patch to address this now prior to the official release.

PC Installation

1. Install or upgrade the Android Studio v2.3

News of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's leaked security documents sent Android and iOS developers scrambling this week, and both groups have responded. Almost lost in the shuffle was IBM's big-data array, which boasts 200,000 hard drives.

Latest iOS Version No Longer Hackable by CIA

Convincing the exalted one to let you out from behind the screen to attend Zebra’s APPFORUM 2017 —especially when the event will have new technology topics and educational sessions—shouldn’t be challenging. Don’t worry- I’m here to assist, with a suggested email template for you to use.

  Try sending this to your manager to get approval:

To my manager:

Join  our RFID experts as they provide step-by-step instructions on how to important Zebra RFID and Scanner SDK for iOS, how to set up a new XCODE project that will work with the RFID and Scanner SDK for iOS, and how to understand SDK's API.

While Apple is looking to beef up its menu of red meat for the enterprise, Google wants to cleave off a section of the messaging market that Apple has been hogging for years. Microsoft, meanwhile, is patching a major hole in its browser code while prepping for a major Visual Studio launch.

Zebra is rolling out the red carpet again for APPFORUM, our Enterprise Software Conference Series that we’ve been hosting since 2014.  APPFORUM will be getting its regional show on the road with an inaugural event for the Americas from May 9-11 at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, USA.