Publishers Creating Facebook Instant Articles Can Now Simultaneously Work on Google AMP (Apple News Soon)

An extension to the software-development kit will enable publishers to generate the necessary code

The software-development kit for Facebook’s Instant Articles media-rich, quick-loading stories from publishers now supports Google AMP, and the social network said support for Apple News is on the way.

Partner engineering director Piyush Mangalick said in a Facebook Media blog post that an extension to its open-source SDK for Instant Articles will enable publishers to generate the code needed to build stories on Google AMP and, “in the coming weeks,” Apple News.

Mangalick said developers who attended recent Facebook Journalism Project Hackathons in New York and London requested a way for Instant Articles to support other major publishing formats, and he offered more details in his blog post:

The updated SDK transforms the markup publishers use to create Instant Articles to generate the code needed to build these other formats, removing what we’ve heard can be a resource-heavy step in publishing on multiple platforms.

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