Developers Introducing the Ably Flutter plugin The Ably Flutter Plugin makes it easy for developers to add WebSocket-based pub/sub messaging to their Flutter applications.
Developers Making a wearable live caption display using Azure Cognitive Services and Ably Jo Franchetti explains how to use Azure Speech and Ably to build a wearable device that can display what you’re saying in realtime.
Developers Using Airtable as a database to store realtime messages In this article, we show how to use Airtable to store realtime messages using a group chat app powered by Ably's realtime infrastructure.
Developers How to use GTFS data to track transit vehicles in realtime How to combine GTFS and GTFS-R data to build a tool that provides accurate vehicle positioning based on schedules and realtime updates.
Developers A scalable, realtime quiz framework to build EdTech apps Introducing a scalable, realtime framework you can use to build reliable and interactive EdTech apps.
peer-to-peer Realtime messaging from beyond the grave In the spirit of the Hallowe'en season, and keeping things spooky, we've used the Ably peer-to-peer game framework to build a digital, online “spirit board” — the original spiritualists' tool to help you communicate
Developers Building a peer-to-peer multiplayer game with pub/sub It is October 2020 and I’m social distancing and missing my friends. At the start of lockdown I played a lot of online multiplayer party games with friends to try and replace
Developers Presenting a realtime communication framework to build multiplayer games Srushtika built a realtime communication framework so game devs can build multiplayer games without needing to worry about the networking side of it and instead focus on their game logic.
Developers Removal of non-inclusive terminology from Ably codebases To further support global racial justice, we're removing uses of "master", "slave" and other terminology from our software that has the potential to legitimise and perpetuate racist and other non-inclusive culture. The most immediate impact will be renaming "master" branches to "main".
Developers Ably Masterclass | Episode 2 - Building an IoT based realtime attendance system for Slack In our second masterclass episode we showed attendees how to build an RFID based access card scanner that can publish messages directly into a Slack channel.
