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Rudy Huyn completed journey, ends up at Microsoft

1 year

In September we reported that famed Windows Phone developer Rudy Huyn had left Dropbox after 4 years. It seems Huyn landed on his feet, and has joined Microsoft, according to a tweet he posted earlier today. After 9 years of close...

Rudy Huyn has left Dropbox

by Surur

1 year

Nearly exactly 4 years ago we reported that famed UWP developer Rudy Huyn was joining Dropbox. At the time he had been making a number of unofficial UWP apps for services such as Instagram and Dropbox, and after joining the compan...

Rudy says Snapchat “hate Microsoft”

by Surur

5 years

We’ve had some recent activity around the persistent Snapchat issue, but Rudy Huyn, who has been down this road before (and has a working version of 6Snap on his phone), did not have a lot of confidence in an open source s...

Rudy bringing Tinder to the desktop with new 6tin Universal app coming soon

by Surur

5 years

Dating app Tinder is not available on the desktop (or for Windows Phone) but thanks to Rudy Huyn we already have the later, and we may soon have the former. Rudy, who authors 6tin, his 3rd party Tinder client for Windows Phone, ...

Rudy Huyn moving to work at Dropbox

by Michael Allison

5 years

Popular Windows Phone app developer Rudy Huyn announced earlier today that he would be moving from being a mostly independent developer to being part of DropBox in San Francisco. This move is not entirely unprecedented, Huyn st...

Rudy working on fixing broken Instagram Direct feature in 6tag

by Surur

5 years

Instagram recently revamped their Instagram Direct feature, making it a lot more like Snapchat. They of course rapidly rolled out app updates to support this on iOS and Android, but their Instagram app on Windows Phone was only up...

6tin picks up tiny improvements with the latest update

by Mehedi Hassan

5 years

6tin, one of the best third-party Tinder client for Windows Phone today picked up a new update. The update doesn’t pack any new feature, and it mostly focuses on improvements. According to the developer of the app, Rudy Huyn...

6tin for Windows Phone picks up a minor update

by Mehedi Hassan

6 years

6tin, the popular third-party Tinder client for Windows Phone today picked up a minor update. As the latest update is a minor one, there isn’t any addition of new feature – meaning that the update only focuses on bug f...

Rudy Huyn to release developer tool to convert Silverlight to Universal app

by Surur

6 years

I’ve a good news for #wpdev. I will release Univerlight, a tool to convert your silverlight project to WinRT in the following days..for free — Rudy Huyn (@RudyHuyn) May 1, 2015 Popular Windows Phone developer Rudy Huyn has...

Rudy Huyn: Android and iOS port tools will be good enough to help, but no real threat to Windows developers

by Surur

6 years

Star Windows Phone developer Rudy Huyn has weighed in on the Project Astoria/Project Islandwood news, which makes it easy to port iOS and Android apps to Windows Phone. He notes that he welcomes the tools and the new iOS and Andro...

Instagram Video upload coming to 6tag next week

by Surur

6 years

6tag is a pretty full featured Instagram app, but up till now it did not allow you to upload videos previously recorded on your phone. This is about to change, with Rudy, the app’s developer, tweeting that the next version...

6discover to be pulled from the Windows Phone Store

by Michael Allison

6 years

6discover was a third-party app by popular developer Rudy Huyn that exclusively focused on Snapchat’s discover feature in an attempt to adhere to the principle of Snapchat’s ban against third party apps. We won’t...