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OpenAI Launches its Official ChatGPT App for iOS
OpenAI made its official ChatGPT app available on the US App Store, providing voice-based input, GPT-4 support for paying users, and faster response times. The company said they will soon start the roll out to additional countries and that an Android version is in the making.
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JetBrains Compose Multiplatform for iOS Reaches Alpha
After adding support for desktop apps and the Web, JetBrains multiplatform declarative UI toolkit now runs on iOS in alpha.
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Jetpack Compose Brings Performance Improvements, Better Tooling Integration, and Updates Material 3
At its Google I/O conference, Google has announced a new iteration of its Jetpack Compose UI toolkit for Android. Among its many improvements, Jetpack Compose has now better performance, extended support within Android Studio, a new Material 3 library, and more.
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How Airbnb Improved its CI Pipeline for iOS Using AWS and Terraform
AirBnb has historically managed its own fleet of Macs to run its iOS continuous integration pipeline. Thanks to AWS providing support for Macs, AirBnb engineers could migrate their iOS CI infrastructure to AWS to increase flexibility, consistency, and efficiency.
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Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials Align with Android 13
Microsoft made the announcement that Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials have been updated to target Android 13, aligning with Google's requirement for new Android apps to target at least Android 13 starting from August 2023. The update aims to ensure compatibility with the latest Android version and provide a smooth transition to the future of cross-platform development, .NET MAUI.
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The Guardian Optimizes Mobile Push-Notification Delivery Architecture
The technology team at the Guardian has taken on making mobile push notifications faster to improve readers' experience. The original architecture, optimized for concurrency, has been suffering from delays in notification delivery. The engineers used improved observability to make significant gains through experimentation.
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Google Previews Studio Bot, a Coding Bot for Android Development
At Google I/O 2023, Google has previewed Studio Bot, an AI-powered coding bot integrated in Android Studio latest version, codenamed Hedgehog. Studio Bot aims to help developers generate code, unit tests, and fix errors.
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Google is Rolling out Passkeys to Make Passwords a Relic of the Past
Google has begun rolling out support for passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms. Passkeys will be available as an additional authentication option alongside pre-existing mechanisms, including passwords, 2-step verification, and so on.
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Running Large Language Models Natively on Mobile and Laptops
MLC LLM is a new open source project aimed to enable deploying large language models on a variety of hardware platforms and applications. It additionally includes a framework to optimize model performance for each specific use case.
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Yelp Adopted the MVI Architecture to Improve Performance and Testability of Their Android App
Four years into the adoption of the Model-View-Intent (MVI) architecture for their Android app, Yelp engineer Paul Martin says it allowed them to have performant screens and improve unit testing.
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Android 14 Beta 1 Hits the Block
Now available to developers, the first beta of Android 14 focuses on privacy, security, performance, developer productivity, and user customization. In addition, it improves user experience with large-screen devices on tablets and foldables.
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Android Auto Now Supports IoT Apps Running in Cars
Android IoT apps enable running internet of things (IoT) apps in cars powered by Android Auto and Android Automotive. This will open up the possibility of controlling IoT devices like home security, lights, doors, and more, directly from within a car.
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Android Studio Flamingo Brings Live Edit for Composable, Improved Build Toolchain, and More
The latest stable release of Android Studio, dubbed Flamingo, brings Live Edit for Composable UIs, new app inspection features, updated IntelliJ, and more.
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Swift 5.8 Adds Function Back-Deployment and Upcoming Feature Support
The latest release of Swift introduces support for piecemeal adoption of upcoming features, which allows developers to start using new features that will become stable in Swift 6. Additionally, it opens the way for making new features retroactively available in earlier OSes.
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The Swift Package Index Now Backed by Apple
The Swift Package Index was created about three years ago by Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt, with the aim of making it easier for Swift developers to search and discover Swift packages. The project is now officially sponsored by Apple, thus making it the official place to go for anything related to Swift packages