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Google Research Open-Sources the Coral NPU Platform to Help Build AI into Wearables and Edge Devices
Coral NPU is an open-source full-stack platform designed to help hardware engineers and AI developers overcome the limitations that prevent integrating AI in wearables and edge devices, including performance, fragmentation, and user trust.
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Pixnapping: Side-Channel Vulnerability Allows Android Apps to Capture Sensitive Screen Data
A newly discovered class of attacks targets Android devices, allowing malicious apps to steal on-screen information from other apps using a technique known as pixel stealing. Dubbed Pixnapping, the attack leverages previously known side-channel vulnerabilities and affects virtually all apps, including Signal, Google Authenticator, Venmo, and many others.
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Swift 6.2 Released with Improved Concurrency, Safer Raw-Memory Access, Wasm Support and More
The most significant new feature in Swift 6.2 is approachable concurrency, a default, low-complexity approach to writing safe concurrent applications. Swift 6.2 also introduces new features to simplify low-level programming, including the InlineArray and Span types, and adds support for WebAssembly.
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Google Brings Optimized Resource Shrinking in Latest Android Gradle Plugin
The latest version of the Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) introduces an optimized resource-shrinking approach that unifies code optimization and resource shrinking, achieving up to 50% reduction in app size for apps that share significant resources and code across different form factor, says Google.
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Android Studio Narwhal Extends Gemini AI Capabilities
The latest Android Studio Narwhal 3 Feature Drop introduces enhancements aimed at boosting developer productivity, including support for resizable Compose previews, new app Backup & Restore tools, and expanded Gemini capabilities such as automatic code generation from UI screenshots.
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Jetpack Compose Enhances Scrolling, Lazy Lists, and More
The latest release of Jetpack Compose, as usual named after its introduction month, adds new APIs for rendering shadows, 2D scrolling, improved list performance, and more.
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Swift 6.2 Introduces Approachable Concurrency to Simplify Concurrent Programming
Announced at its latest developer conference, WWDC25, Swift Approachable Concurrency is a new feature in Swift 6.2 designed to simplify concurrent programming for the most common use cases in mobile apps.
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Apple Shares Details on Upcoming AI Foundation Models for iOS 26
In a recent tech report, Apple has provided more details on the performance and characteristics of the new Apple Intelligence Foundation Models that will be part of iOS 26, as announced at the latest WWDC 2025.
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Arm Scalable Matrix Extension 2 Coming to Android to Accelerate On-Device AI
Available in the Armv9-A architecture, Arm Scalable Matrix Extension 2 (SME2) is a set of advanced CPU instructions designed to accelerate matrix heavy computation. The new Arm technology aims to help mobile developers to run advanced AI models directly on CPU with improved performance and efficiency, without requiring any changes to their apps.
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Gemma 3n Introduces Novel Techniques for Enhanced Mobile AI Inference
Launched in early preview last May, Gemma 3n is now officially available. It targets mobile-first, on-device AI applications, using new techniques designed to increase efficiency and improve performance, such as per-layer embeddings and transformer nesting.
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Google Previews Gemini's Agent Mode in Android Studio Narwhal
Google has announced the integration of Gemini in Android Studio's Agent Mode into the latest canary release of Android Studio, Android Studio Narwhal preview. According to Google, the new Agent Mode is designed to handle multi-step development tasks that span across several files.
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SwiftUI for iOS 26 Embraces Liquid Glass, Introduces WebView and Rich Text Editing
At WWDC 2025, Apple unveiled the latest iteration of its declarative UI framework, SwiftUI, featuring two major additions: a new SwiftUI-native WebView type and support for rich-text editing within TextView controls. The update also brings a plethora of additional improvements and new performance tools.
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Android 16 Introduces Wide-Ranging Features and Changes
Google has released Android 16, now available for supported Pixel devices. The new release introduces a wide range of new APIs and changes, some of which affect existing apps and require developers to update their code. Material 3 Expressive, the new paradigm for Android user interfaces, is not yet included and will roll out later this year.
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How Tripadvisor Migrated to The Composable Architecture for Their SwiftUI App
In a thorough article, Tripadvisor iOS principal engineer Ben Sarrazin described their journey toward adopting The Composable Architecture (TCA) for their existing iOS app, moving away from the Model-View-ViewModel-Coordinator (MVVM-C) architecture.
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Google Brings Gemini Nano to ML Kit with New On-Device GenAI APIs
The new GenAI APIs recently added to ML Kit enable developers to use Gemini Nano for on-device inference in Android apps, supporting features like summarization, proofreading, rewriting, and image description.