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Walgreens is proud to introduce tapsBook for iPad as one of our first third party developer apps to integrate our Photo Book product offering and also one of two winners of our Fall 2013 QuickPrints Developer Contest!

The tapsBook (http://tapsBook.com) app is the market’s first 2-in-1 iPad app that allows you to manage photos and create story books through its seamless integrated workflow. The tapsBook app let users quickly sort through their online/offline photos, and automatically organize your photos into story books based photo's metadata using advanced machine intelligence.  

According to tapsBook's founder Sherwood Yao, "tapsBook is all about making virtual photo books as convenient as possible for our users. Our customers asked the option to quickly print their beautiful photo books as gifts. Walgreens, with a scale of 4000+ retail store nation wide offering photo book printing service,  is the only print partner out there that can provide the same day printing option for our US customers. We are pleased that customer can create a book in under a minute and pick up that book within the same day."

Create your first photo book gift today by downloading the tapsBook iPad app!

The Walgreens Developer Program team is very proud to unveil our brand new QuickPrints SDKs for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.  These new SDKs were announced at the Microsoft BUILD Conference earlier this year and we have been working feverishly to get it ready for primetime.  

If you are interested in integrating QuickPrints into your Windows desktop, tablet or mobile application, now is the time!  You can review our SDK documentation, download a sample application and learn more about this new platform offering on our QuickPrints SDK for Windows 8 landing page.

We are also excited to announce the first live integrations the QuickPrints SDK for Windows 8 within the Printicular and Order Prints applications.  These new SDK integrations join Kicksend, Pic Stitch, Pic Stitch for WP8 and LifePics who had previously integrated the QuickPrints API into their Windows 8 applications.

If you have any questions on concerns on these updates, please drop us a line at devportal@walgreens.com.  

Happy Hacking!

Presentation by Tim McCauley (Sr. Director, Mobile Commerce) and Joe Rago (Sr. Product Manager) at the Apigee "I Love APIs" Conference in San Francisco, CA.

Walgreens would like to introduce Order Prints by Peridot Technologies as our latest integration on for Windows 8.  Order Prints is a free application for Windows 8 PCs and tablets that allows you to order photo prints for pickup at your local Walgreens or Duane Reade locations.

According to Omar Barlas, Managing Director for Peridot Technologies, "The high availability of Walgreens print labs and their stores throughout the nation convinced us to use their QuickPrints SDK in our Order Prints App so that our users may send print orders to their local Walgreens outlets and pickup prints in about an hour."  Download Order Prints today on the Windows App Store!