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RIP Samsung Messages; the Galaxy S25 only comes with Google Messages (Updated: More details)
That's one less duplicate app taking up your phone storage.
Published on: January 23, 2025 | Source:
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Corning tells us how Gorilla Armor 2 is made to protect the Galaxy S25 Ultra
Corning explains how Gorilla Armor 2's properties make it superior to Apple's Ceramic Shield solution for iPhones.
Published on: January 23, 2025 | Source:Court says Google doesn’t have to pay preposterous Russian fine (that it never could have anyway)
Google scores a major win in UK courts, but this saga isn't quite over yet.
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:Samsung teases its long-rumored triple-screen phone at Galaxy Unpacked
Samsung just teased a new form factor for its phones.
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:This is the best Galaxy S25 Ultra alternative I recommend
The Pixel 9 Pro XL is the best alternative to the Galaxy S25 Ultra in my book. Here's why.
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra vs iPhone 16 Pro: There’s a clear winner for me
As a Samsung user, I prefer the Galaxy S25 Ultra but is it the right phone for your needs as well?
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:Nothing continues to be as cryptic as ever with new Pokemon-themed teaser
Nothing appears to be up to something.
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:Samsung Galaxy S25 vs Google Pixel 9: There’s a clear winner for me
My pick might not be the popular choice.
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:Build kids app experiences for Wear OS
Posted by John Zoeller – Developer Relations Engineer, and Caroline Vander Wilt – Group Product Manager New Wear OS features enable ‘standalone’ watches for kids, unlocking new possibilities for Wear OS app developers In collaboration with Samsung, Wear OS is introducing Galaxy Watch for Kids, a new kids experience enabling kids to explore while staying connected with their families from their smartwatch, no phone...
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:Data Structures & Algorithms in Swift [SUBSCRIBER]
Understanding how data structures and algorithms work in code is crucial for creating efficient and scalable apps and acing job interviews. Swift’s standard library and, more recently, the Swift Collections and Algorithms packages contain a robust set of general-purpose collection types and algorithms, yet they don’t cover every case! In Data Structures and Algorithms in Swift, you’ll learn how to implement the most...
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:React Native 0.77 - New Styling Features, Android’s 16KB page support, Swift Template
Today we are excited to release React Native 0.77!
Published on: January 21, 2025 | Source:Issue 695
We’re still at the very beginning of what we can do with visionOS. Will TabletopKit give us shared experiences?
Published on: January 17, 2025 | Source:Apps adopt Transformer to support more reliable and performant media editing use cases
Posted by Caren Chang – Developer Relations Engineer The Jetpack Media3 library enables Android apps to build high quality media apps. As part of the Media3 library, the Transformer module aims to provide easy to use, reliable, and performant APIs for transcoding and editing media. For example, apps can use Transformer to apply editing operations such as trimming a long piece of media file, or applying effects to video...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:Issue 694
Hopefully you won’t see that much difference with receiving this issue, but it’s ALL CHANGED behind the scenes!
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop is Stable!
Posted by Steven Jenkins – Product Manager, Android Studio Today, we are thrilled to announce the stable release of Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop (2024.2.2)! Accelerate your productivity with Gemini in Android Studio, Animation Preview support for Wear Tiles, App Links Assistant and much more. All of these new features are designed to help you build high-quality Android apps faster. Read on to learn more about...
Published on: January 09, 2025 | Source:Performance Class helps Google Maps deliver premium experiences
Posted by Nevin Mital - Developer Relations Engineer, Android Media The Android ecosystem features a diverse range of devices, and it can be difficult to build experiences that take advantage of new or premium hardware features while still working well for users on all devices. With Android 12, we introduced the Media Performance Class (MPC) standard to help developers better understand a device’s capabilities and...
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:Spotlight Week: Android Camera and Media
Posted by Caren Chang- Android Developer Relations Engineer Android offers Camera and Media APIs to help you build apps that can capture, edit, share, and play media. To help you enhance Android Camera and Media experiences to be even more delightful for your users, this week we will be kicking off the Camera and Media Spotlight week. This Spotlight Week will provide resources—blog posts, videos, sample code, and more—...
Published on: January 07, 2025 | Source:Media3 1.5.0 — what’s new?
Posted by Kristina Simakova – Engineering Manager This article is cross-published on Medium Media3 1.5.0 is now available! Transformer now supports motion photos and faster image encoding. We’ve also simplified the setup for DefaultPreloadManager and ExoPlayer, making it easier to use. But that’s not all! We’ve included a new IAMF decoder, a Kotlin listener extension, and easier Player optimization through delegation....
Published on: January 07, 2025 | Source:iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 693 - Jan 3rd 2025
Comment Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all had a restful and relaxing break if you took time off, and I wish each of you a happy and prosperous 2025. Last year was a year full of personal challenges for me, but I have plans for a much better 2025. I have plans for this newsletter too, and of course we have goals for this year on the Swift Package Index. The plans for the newsletter include a new self-hosted...
Published on: January 03, 2025 | Source:Issue 693
Happy New Year, and here’s to a cracking 2025!
Published on: January 03, 2025 | Source:Kodeco Podcast: App Marketing Secrets – Podcast V2, S3 E2 [FREE]
Looking to market your indie app? Malin Sundberg & Kai Dombrowski share tips on getting featured in the App Store, building connections, and marketing that works — even if you’d rather be coding.
Published on: December 30, 2024 | Source:Debugging Projects in Godot [FREE]
When analyzing code, the errors might not be obvious just by looking at the code. To help you analyze and debug code, use the provided debugger integrated in Godot.
Published on: December 22, 2024 | Source:iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 692 - Dec 20th 2024
Comment Here we are at the end of another year of iOS Dev Weekly. As always, I remain tremendously grateful that you all continue to read it, and I’ll do my best to keep things that way in 2025! As is the tradition around here, this last issue of the year is a “Best of And Finally…”. My method for picking the links you’ll find below remains completely unscientific. I open every issue of the newsletter over the past...
Published on: December 20, 2024 | Source:Issue 692
How do we wrap up the year? With the “Best of And Finally…”, of course!
Published on: December 20, 2024 | Source:Celebrating Another Year of #WeArePlay
Posted by Robbie McLachlan – Developer Marketing This year #WeArePlay took us on a journey across the globe, spotlighting 300 people behind apps and games on Google Play. From a founder whose app uses AI to assist visually impaired people to a game where nimble-fingered players slice flying fruits and use special combos to beat their own high score, we met founders transforming ideas into thriving businesses. Let’s...
Published on: December 19, 2024 | Source:The Second Developer Preview of Android 16
Posted by Matthew McCullough – VP of Product Management, Android Developer The second developer preview of Android 16 is now available to test with your apps. This build includes changes designed to enhance the app experience, improve battery life, and boost performance while minimizing incompatibilities, and your feedback is critical in helping us understand the full impact of this work. System triggered profiling...
Published on: December 18, 2024 | Source:UIKit Apprentice [SUBSCRIBER]
For Complete Beginners! If you’re completely new to Swift and iOS development (or need a brush-up), this is the series for you. The UIKit Apprentice is a series of epic-length tutorials for beginners where you’ll learn how to build four complete apps from scratch. Each new app will be a little more advanced than the one before, and together they cover everything you need to know to make your own apps. By the end of the...
Published on: December 18, 2024 | Source:How Instagram enabled users to take stunning Low Light Photos
Posted by Donovan McMurray – Developer Relations Engineer Instagram, the popular photo and video sharing social networking service, is constantly delighting users with a best-in-class camera experience. Recently, Instagram launched another improvement on Android with their Night Mode implementation. As devices and their cameras become more and more capable, users expect better quality images in a wider variety of...
Published on: December 17, 2024 | Source:Celebrating Flutter’s “Production Era”
Just over six years ago, we unveiled Flutter 1.0. Today, at #FlutterInProduction, we’re celebrating how far we’ve come—from the immense support we’ve received from thousands of contributors in the community, to the widespread adoption of Flutter as a production-grade app framework for building multi-platform app experiences.If you haven’t experienced Flutter yet, we invite you to try it! As we shared today, you’d be...
Published on: December 17, 2024 | Source:What's new in CameraX 1.4.0 and a sneak peek of Jetpack Compose support
Posted by Scott Nien – Software Engineer (scottnien@) Get ready to level up your Android camera apps! CameraX 1.4.0 just dropped with a load of awesome new features and improvements. We're talking expanded HDR capabilities, preview stabilization and the versatile effect framework, and a whole lot of cool stuff to explore. We will also explore how to seamlessly integrate CameraX with Jetpack Compose! Let's dive in and...
Published on: December 17, 2024 | Source:Announcing Flutter AI Toolkit
Want AI chat in your Flutter app? This toolkit makes iteasy.Flutter AI developers, rejoice! Adding an AI-powered chat experience to your app just got a whole lot easier. Introducing Flutter AI Toolkit, a collection of ready-to-use AI chat widgets designed to seamlessly integrate into your Flutter projects. No more building complex chat interfaces from scratch—Flutter AI Toolkit provides everything you need to quickly...
Published on: December 17, 2024 | Source:Video & web ad support in Flutter
Coauthors: Zoey Fan, Harold Benson, Alak JhunjhunwalaMonetizing your Flutter app just got easier and more rewarding. Today, we are thrilled to announce a new suite of tools and feature updates that provide developers with a range of options to monetize your apps and grow your business.Video ads now available for Flutter developersAn animated gif showing a sample videoadsLet’s start by turning your video content into a...
Published on: December 17, 2024 | Source:Get your apps ready for 16 KB page size devices
Posted by Yacine Rezgui – Developer Relations Engineer, Steven Moreland – Staff Software Engineer Android is evolving to deliver even faster, more performant experiences. One key improvement is the adoption of a 16 KB memory page size. This change enables the operating system to manage memory more efficiently, leading to noticeable performance gains (5-10%) in both apps and games. We provided an in-depth technical...
Published on: December 17, 2024 | Source:iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 691 - Dec 13th 2024
Comment Happy Friday, everyone! Below, I’ve got another longer-form article covering an interesting hardware-based Swift project from Luke Howard and Peer Espen Ursfjord. The device they’re building is music-related, but the real story is about getting Swift, C/C++, Linux, Android, Dart, and Flutter all working together! Next week’s issue will be my usual "Best of And Finally…" for 2024, and then I’ll take my annual...
Published on: December 13, 2024 | Source:#WeArePlay | Meet the people building sport apps and games
Posted by Robbie McLachlan – Developer Marketing In a year filled with iconic sports moments—from the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris to the UEFA Euro Cup in Germany—our celebration of app and game businesses continues with nine new #WeArePlay stories. These founders are building sports apps and games that unite players, fans, and communities—from immersive sports simulations to apps that motivate runners with...
Published on: December 13, 2024 | Source: