Apps

Amazon’s shopping app brings enhanced AR tools

Augmented reality has a few quite legitimate use cases, like home furnishing. Ikea uses augmented reality in its Place app to a great success, and now Amazon's expanded augmented reality capabilities of its shopping app with a new Room Decorator feature making it easy to create more than a hundred different configurations consisting of dozens of virtual products.

Some developers releasing apps on TestFlight as a less restrictive App Store alternative

According to a new report, some iPhone and iPad developers are choosing to publish their apps to TestFlight, which is Apple's service for over-the-air installation and testing of iOS apps, and leave it at that. Users, assuming they know where to look, can download and use these pieces of software via the TestFlight app, which is available for free on the App Store.