Facebook, leading social media platform, which has almost 600 million monthly active users on its Messenger announced some amazing features at its F8 Developer Conference. The day flurried with many announcements in which the giant included everything for a developer. Here’s what Facebook announced at F8 Developer Conference:
Messenger Gets More Personalized
The new Messenger Platform announced by Facebook will allow the developers to add the messenger’s features into another application. By this, the developers will be now able to build some amazing applications.
Order the Product Online through Messenger
There’s no doubt that messenger is getting better with its every update. For online shopping, you might have to refer several websites but now the Facebook Messenger has everything for you to shop online. Right from placing the order to changing the shipping details, everything can be done in the Messenger itself.
Facebook Will Support 360 Degree Videos
The first step from Facebook is to provide 360 degree videos in its feed. You can also wear your VR headset to view them at a better angle. Or just move the mouse cursor all around the screen and you can see each and every corner of the place shown in the video.
Facebook Video Embedding
You might have embedded several videos from YouTube to your website, but that was not the case with Facebook before. But now it will be Facebook will be supported by an extra option of ‘Embed Video’ to directly add the Facebook’s video on other websites.
Facebook’s New Mobile App Analytics Tool
With the help of this tool, now the developers can easily track the users’ behaviour in the app, clicks on the advertisement and can change the advertisement campaign accordingly. This is surely going to make a big difference in the app marketing tactics.
SDKs for Internet of Things (IoT)
Parse mobile app development platform was blessed with SDKs to integrate data from internet connected devices. This was originally announced at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference yesterday. With this, the Internet of Things is going to get a new life towards implementing new ideas.
LiveRail Ad Network Will Expand
The Facebook is known for advertising and somewhere around the corner it was expected to add a new feature for advertisers. LiveRail which was purchased by Facebook in 2014 will be extending its ad network to mobile apps rather than just displaying the ads on the websites.
Bug Solving Issue Will be Resolved
After all, at the end of the day, Facebook gave some relief to the developers who are into app development. The bugs found in the app can be fixed within 48 hours of time. This will surely benefit the customers who often find the bug but unable to get it resolved quickly.
This is what all was announced at Facebook F8 Developer Conference. Stay tuned for more updates on technology news.
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