January 2017 Summaries

Ably has added three new tutorials for users to learn about popular features such as Presence and Client & Server Token Authentication. The Presence feature allows clients to be aware of other active members on a channel, enabling real-time tracking across devices. This can be useful in developing applications like chat rooms and multiplayer games. Ably supports two types of authentication schemes: Basic and Token. While most tutorials demonstrate the use of Basic Authentication, this new tutorial focuses on using the recommended Token Authentication scheme for untrusted clients.

Over the last few months, significant updates have been made to client libraries adhering to the 0.9 specification in anticipation of the upcoming 1.0 release. These updates streamline channel and connection state management for developers. Stable 0.9 releases are available for Ruby REST and PHP, with release candidates for Android, iOS, Javascript, and Node.js. A new NativeScript library has been introduced, along with TypeScript support for JS browser lib & Node.js. The Android library has received critical fixes and updates, while the iOS library's pod name has been changed to Ably.