Learning Claris FileMaker

FileMaker, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, is all about allowing non-developers to create line-of-business apps for Mac, Windows, iOS and the web.

Increasingly, though, over the course of its last few releases, it also started to add more features for professional developers.

With the launch of FileMaker 16 today, the company is adding new features for both of these constituencies, though there is clearly a strong emphasis on offering better support for experienced developers with this release.

After more than 35 years on the market and with over a million active subscribers, the team behind FileMaker obviously knows a thing or two about what its users want and how to best present it to them.

Its core market remains the small and medium business customer who uses it for small-scale projects.

But that’s changing a bit, FileMaker’s director of platform evangelism Andrew LeCates tells me.

“One of the interesting things that seems to be happening out there — even at the enterprise level — is that even pros are looking at low-code/no-code products.”

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FileMaker, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, makes it easy for those without any programming knowledge as well as experienced programmers to build line-of-business apps for the iPhone, iPad, Windows PC and Mac. The product has been around since the 1980s (back then it was called Nutshell), but has evolved ever since.

With the release of this latest version, FileMaker now supports new iOS features like Touch ID and 3D Touch, as well as new technologies like iBeacons for building location-based apps. On the software side, FileMaker now supports Apple’s app extensions, too.

The update obviously includes a huge number of other new features, ...