Facebook Targets IoT Developers With New SDKs

Facebook extended its Parse Internet of things line of SDKs with new ones supporting Atmel, Broadcom, Intel and TI hardware.

Facebook announced it has expanded its Parse for IoTtoolkit with new SDKs supporting additional platforms for Internet of things (IoT) app development.

With this expansion of the Parse for IoT SDK line announced at Facebook's F8 developer conference in March, developers can now build even more connected devices with Parse, using new dedicated SDKs for Atmel, Broadcom, Intel and TI hardware.

Developers can now build apps for Atmel's SAM D21 + WINC1500, TI's CC3200, Intel's Edison or Broadcom's WICED and connect to the Parse cloud in minutes, with just a few lines of code, Damian Kowalewski, a Facebook software engineer, wrote in a blog post.

Kowalewski called IoT one of the most exciting new platforms for app development, but he said IoT poses new challenges for developers as "many IoT devices also need to be personalized and paired with a mobile companion app." Parse is trying to simplify that process. For original and complete post see here