That's why the initiative is focusing on basic features like storage management — as with
its last standalone app — and data usage.
Not exact matches
Uber has been testing the food - delivery service inside of its main
app for the better part of the past 18 months, but it then launched as a
standalone app available in Toronto, Wired reported
last month.
Even Amazon launched Amazon Rapids
last November, a
standalone app for kids featuring the exact same text - message - style reading format.
It's been available for iPhone users - via a
standalone iOS
app that debuted at Google's I / O - since
last spring.
A
standalone HomeKit
app was expected to make its debut in iOS 9
last year, but that did not happen for some reason.
For instance,
last year, it added support for Whirlpool and GE appliances, availability on iOS as a
standalone app, a developer's kit so it could come to more devices, and several more improvements thanks to Google's machine learning progress.
Last year, Facebook shut down its
standalone apps incubator «Creative Labs» and several of its products, including Slingshot, Rooms and Riff.
Over the
last few months, his crew has been running Events
app alpha tests to find out what users would want in a
standalone product.
Facebook
last year launched a
standalone Events
app to help people find what's going on offline and attend with friends.
After releasing the new Facebook
app last week, which was rebuilt from ground up and twice as fast, Facebook has released an update for its
standalone camera
app — Facebook Camera.
Last week, we told you that Facebook had released a
standalone app to manage pages called Facebook Pages Manager.
That
last part is a biggie, because if you actually intend to connect Bluetooth headphones to the Gear Sport and use it as a
standalone music player, the other main method of transferring music to the watch is by using the Gear
app and doing it one song at a time.
The
last Android Wear 2.0 preview introduced a new
standalone system for smartwatch
apps, no longer tied to their smartphone packages.
According to Engadget, reports about a
standalone Apple support
app have been circulating the web since
last year, but it is only this week that the rumored
app is materialized.
Facebook has made a notable update to one of its many
standalone apps: the
app known as Events, which first launched
last year as a way to bring users» calendar and event listings together, has been renamed to Facebook Local.
Facebook will soon make all users in the world download its
standalone Messenger
app, it's claimed.According to TechCrunch, Facebook began notifying users
last spring that they'd no longer have the option to message in Facebook for Android and iOS....
Of course, Microsoft announced
last week that it's now rethinking some of its Skype integration in Windows 10 with the upcoming launch of a
standalone Universal
app, rather than baking Skype functionality into other core
apps on the OS.
In March
last year, Facebook's team under David Marcus transformed Messenger into a
standalone platform for third - party
apps.