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Issue 686
Copilot vs Xcode Predictive Code Completion: Is the playing field level now?
Published on: November 08, 2024 | Source:
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iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 685 - Nov 1st 2024
Comment Thanks to everyone who responded to last weekβs question on what you hope for from WWDC 2025. There were plenty of interesting responses, but before we get to the specifics I asked how optimistic you all were about Swift and Apple platform development. It can be easy to see only negative comments about a topic, especially if you go anywhere near social media, so I was a little nervous to see these results. I...
Published on: November 01, 2024 | Source:Issue 685
Something a bit different this week. What do you all hope for from WWDC2025?
Published on: November 01, 2024 | Source:#TheAndroidShow: live from Droidcon, including the biggest update to Gemini in Android Studio and more SDK releases for Android!
Posted by Matthew McCullough β Vice President, Product Management, Android Developer We just dropped our Fall episode of #TheAndroidShow, on YouTube and on developer.android.com, and this time are live from Droidcon in London, giving you the latest in Android Developer news including the biggest update to Gemini in Android Studio as well as sharing that there will be more frequent SDK releases for Android, including...
Published on: October 31, 2024 | Source:FlipaClip optimizes for large screens and sees a 54% increase in tablet users
Posted by Miguel Montemayor β Developer Relations Engineer FlipaClip is an app for creating dynamic and engaging 2D animations. Its powerful toolkit allows animators of all levels to bring their ideas to life, and its developers are always searching for new ways to help its users create anything they can imagine. Increasing tablet support was pivotal in improving FlipaClip usersβ creativity, giving them more space and...
Published on: October 31, 2024 | Source:Updates to power your growth on Google Play
Posted by Paul Feng β Vice President of Engineering, Product and UX, Google Play Our annual Playtime event series kicks off this week and weβre excited to share the latest product updates to help your business thrive. Weβre sharing new ways to grow your audience, optimize revenue, and protect your business in an ever-evolving digital landscape. Make sure to also check out news from #TheAndroidShow to learn more about...
Published on: October 31, 2024 | Source:More frequent Android SDK releases: faster innovation, higher quality and more polish
Posted by Matthew McCullough β Vice President, Product Management, Android Developer Android has always worked to get innovation into the hands of users faster. In addition to our annual platform releases, weβve invested in Project Treble, Mainline, Google Play services, monthly security updates, and the quarterly releases that help power Pixel Drops. Going forward, Android will have more frequent SDK releases with two...
Published on: October 31, 2024 | Source:Gemini in Android Studio, now helping you across the development lifecycle
Posted by Sandhya Mohan β Product Manager, Android Studio This is Our Biggest Feature Release Since Launch! AI can accelerate your development experience, and help you become more productive. That's why we introduced Gemini in Android Studio, your AI-powered coding companion. Itβs designed to make it easier for you to build high quality Android apps, faster. Today, we're releasing the biggest set of updates to Gemini...
Published on: October 31, 2024 | Source:Kodeco Podcast: Meet the Show β Podcast V2, S3 E0 [FREE]
Welcome to Season Three of the Kodeco Podcast! In this episode, Suz, Jenn, and Dru fill you in on what to look forward to this season!
Published on: October 31, 2024 | Source:iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 684 - Oct 25th 2024
Comment Itβs extremely likely that come June next year, Apple will hold another WWDC conference. Itβs also likely that weβll see new and updated SDKs and a new beta of Xcode at that event. Which means that right now, teams of people inside Apple are hard at work figuring out and implementing features and fixes to unveil in about seven months. Yes, itβs really only seven months until WWDC! Itβs almost certainly too...
Published on: October 25, 2024 | Source:Issue 684
What are you hoping for from WWDC 2025? Let me know and get quoted in next week's issue.
Published on: October 25, 2024 | Source:New Architecture is here
React Native 0.76 with the New Architecture by default is now available on npm!
Published on: October 23, 2024 | Source:React Native 0.76 - New Architecture by default, React Native DevTools, and more
Today we are excited to release React Native 0.76!
Published on: October 23, 2024 | Source:Set a reminder: tune in for our Fall episode of #TheAndroidShow on October 31, live from Droidcon!
Posted by Anirudh Dewani β Director, Android Developer Relations In just a few days, on Thursday, October 31st at 10AM PT, weβll be dropping our Fall episode of #TheAndroidShow, on YouTube and on developer.android.com! In our quarterly show, this time weβll be live from Droidcon in London, giving you the latest in Android Developer news with demos of Jetpack Compose and more. You can set a reminder to watch the...
Published on: October 23, 2024 | Source:iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 683 - Oct 18th 2024
Comment Many people have written about the repeated screen recording permission prompts in macOS 15 and I mostly agree with the negative coverage. There is some potentially good news coming in 15.1, with the promise of even less frequent prompts if you regularly use an app. That seems like a reasonable compromise, and is probably where Appleβs iteration on this feature will end. But I also liked Matthias Gansriglerβs...
Published on: October 18, 2024 | Source:Issue 683
Mac has issued a salutation, Cancel or Allow?
Published on: October 18, 2024 | Source:CameraX update makes dual concurrent camera even easier
Posted by Donovan McMurray β Developer Relations Engineer CameraX, Android's Jetpack camera library, is getting an exciting update to its Dual Concurrent Camera feature, making it even easier to integrate this feature into your app. This feature allows you to stream from 2 different cameras at the same time. The original version of Dual Concurrent Camera was released in CameraX 1.3.0, and it was already a huge leap in...
Published on: October 16, 2024 | Source:Chrome on Android to support third-party autofill services natively
Posted by Eiji Kitamura β Developer Advocate Chrome on Android will soon allow third-party autofill services (like password managers) to natively autofill forms on websites. Developers of these services need to tell their users to toggle a setting in Chrome to continue using their service with Chrome. Background Google is the default autofill service on Chrome, providing passwords, passkeys and autofill for other...
Published on: October 16, 2024 | Source:Creating a responsive dashboard layout for JetLagged with Jetpack Compose
Posted by Rebecca Franks - Developer Relations Engineer This blog post is part of our series: Adaptive Spotlight Week where we provide resourcesβblog posts, videos, sample code, and moreβall designed to help you adapt your apps to phones, foldables, tablets, ChromeOS and even cars. You can read more in the overview of the Adaptive Spotlight Week, which will be updated throughout the week. Weβve heard the news, creating...
Published on: October 15, 2024 | Source:#WeArePlay | NomadHer helps women travel the world
Posted by Robbie McLachlan, Developer Marketing In our latest film for #WeArePlay, which celebrates the people behind apps and games, we meet Hyojeong - the visionary behind the app NomadHer. Sheβs aiming to reshape how women explore the world by building a global community: sharing travel tips, prioritizing safety, and connecting with one another to explore new destinations. What inspired you to create NomadHer?...
Published on: October 15, 2024 | Source:Here's what happening in our latest Spotlight Week: Adaptive Android Apps
Posted by Alex Vanyo - Developer Relations Engineer Adaptive Spotlight Week With Android powering a diverse range of devices, users expect a seamless and optimized experience across their foldables, tablets, ChromeOS, and even cars. To meet these expectations, developers need to build their apps with multiple screen sizes and form factors in mind. Changing how you approach UI can drastically improve users' experiences...
Published on: October 14, 2024 | Source:iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 682 - Oct 11th 2024
Comment I noticed something while reading Nezhyborets Oleksiiβs latest post on formatting code across multiple lines. He skipped over a new Xcode feature, but it caught my eye as I have been hoping Apple would add this for years! New in Xcode 16βs βEditorβ menu under βStructureβ youβll find βFormat File with swift-formatβ. I couldnβt wait to try it, so I loaded an Xcode project, opened a file, and it worked...
Published on: October 11, 2024 | Source:Issue 682
Did a Swift code formatting standard we can all get behind just get one step closer with Xcode 16?
Published on: October 11, 2024 | Source:Introducing Ink API, a new Jetpack library for stylus apps
Posted by Chris Assigbe β Developer Relations Engineer and Tom Buckley β Product Manager With stylus input, Android apps on phones, foldables, tablets, and Chromebooks become even more powerful tools for productivity and creativity. While there's already a lot to think about when designing for large screens β see our full guidance and inspiration gallery β styluses are especially impactful, transforming these devices...
Published on: October 08, 2024 | Source:Exporting Your Godot Project to Windows and Linux [FREE]
Exporting your Godot project for Windows and Linux is a crucial step in sharing your game with the world. This tutorial walks you through the process, covering essential topics like export templates, preset configuration, and platform-specific settings. Learn how to navigate the export window, understand various options, and create distribution-ready builds for both Windows and Linux platforms. Whether youβre targeting...
Published on: October 06, 2024 | Source:iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 681 - Oct 4th 2024
Comment Last weekβs downtime on Curated set me thinking about this newsletter and about the fact it has been the same format for a very long time now. Thatβs no accident, of course. A collection of links to community-written posts along with news articles, an opinion piece from me, and a light-hearted link to finish is a format that has worked well for many years. Why fix what isnβt broken? My process of writing the...
Published on: October 04, 2024 | Source:Issue 681
Back to our regular scheduled programming this week!
Published on: October 04, 2024 | Source:Gemini API in action: showcase of innovative Android apps
Posted by Thomas Ezan, Sr Developer Relation Engineer With the advent of Generative AI, Android developers now have access to capabilities that were previously out of reach. For instance, you can now easily add image captioning to your app without any computer vision knowledge. With the upcoming launch of the stable version of VertexAI in Firebase in a few weeks (available in Beta Since Google I/O), you'll be able to...
Published on: October 03, 2024 | Source:Advanced capabilities of the Gemini API for Android developers
Posted by Thomas Ezan, Sr Developer Relation Engineer Thousands of developers across the globe are harnessing the power of the Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash models to infuse advanced generative AI features into their applications. Android developers are no exception, and with the upcoming launch of the stable version of VertexAI in Firebase in a few weeks (available in Beta since Google I/O), it's the perfect...
Published on: October 03, 2024 | Source:PyTorch machine learning models on Android
Posted by Paul Ruiz β Senior Developer Relations Engineer Earlier this year we launched Google AI Edge, a suite of tools with easy access to ready-to-use ML tasks, frameworks that enable you to build ML pipelines, and run popular LLMs and custom models β all on-device. For AI on Android Spotlight Week, the Google team is highlighting various ways that Android developers can use machine learning to help improve their...
Published on: October 02, 2024 | Source:How to bring your AI Model to Android devices
Posted by Kateryna Semenova β Senior Developer Relations Engineer and Mark Sherwood β Senior Product Manager During AI on Android Spotlight Week, we're diving into how you can bring your own AI model to Android-powered devices such as phones, tablets, and beyond. By leveraging the tools and technologies available from Google and other sources, you can run sophisticated AI models directly on these devices, opening up...
Published on: October 02, 2024 | Source:An introduction to privacy and safety for Gemini Nano
Posted by Terence Zhang β Developer Relations Engineer, and Adrien Couque β Software Engineer AI can enhance the user experience and productivity of Android apps. If you're looking to build GenAI features that benefit from additional data privacy or offline inference, on-device GenAI is a good choice as it processes prompts directly on your device without any server calls. Gemini Nano is the most efficient model in...
Published on: October 01, 2024 | Source:Gemini Nano is now available on Android via experimental access
Posted by Taj Darra β Product Manager Gemini, introduced last year, is Googleβs most capable family of models yet; designed for flexibility, it can run on everything from data centers to mobile devices. Since announcing Gemini Nano, our most efficient model built for on-device tasks, we've been working with a limited set of partners to support a range of use cases for their apps. Today, weβre opening up access to...
Published on: October 01, 2024 | Source:iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 680 - Sep 30th 2024
Comment Stop! Donβt pack up your desk and welcome the weekend just yet. Itβs Monday, not Friday. As you may have seen there was a hiccup with publishing last Fridayβs issue where the software I use to publish it was completely broken for the day. Thankfully itβs back now, and I can keep my promise to publish today. 13 years and 7 weeks isnβt a bad streak for publishing every Friday, though, is it! -- The big Swift...
Published on: September 30, 2024 | Source:Welcome to AI on Android Spotlight Week
Posted by Joseph Lewis β Technical Writer, Android AI AI on Android Spotlight Week this year runs September 30th to October 4th! As part of the Android βSpotlight Weeksβ series, this weekβs content and updates are your gateway to understanding how to integrate cutting-edge AI into your Android apps. Whether you're a seasoned Android developer, an AI enthusiast, or just starting out on your development journey, get...
Published on: September 30, 2024 | Source: