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TikTok's Native Cross-Platform UI Framework Lynx Goes Open Source
TikTok maker ByteDance has open-sourced Lynx, a collection of frameworks and tools enabling the creation of native, cross-platform mobile apps using Web markup, CSS, and JavaScript. Lynx aims to deliver native performance thanks to its custom JavaScript engine and pixel-perfect UI rendering.
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Google Launches Gemma 3 1B for Mobile and Web Apps
Requiring a "mere" 529MB, Gemma 3 1B is a small language model (SLM) specifically meant for distribution across mobile and Web apps, where models must download quickly and be responsive to keep user engagement high.
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Google Enhances Data Privacy with Confidential Federated Analytics
Google has announced Confidential Federated Analytics (CFA), a technique designed to increase transparency in data processing while maintaining privacy. Building on federated analytics, CFA leverages confidential computing to ensure that only predefined and inspectable computations are performed on user data without exposing raw data to servers or engineers.
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Google Introduces Widgets Quality Tiers
Google will start classifying all Android widgets in three quality tiers based on their adherence to best practices and widget guidelines, helping creators improve the user experiences of their widgets.
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Google's Image Generation Model Imagen 3 Now Available in Vertex AI in Firebase as a Preview
Google's most advanced GenAI image generation model, Imagen 3, is now available in preview through Vertex AI in Firebase enabling seamless integration into Android and iOS apps through its Kotlin and Swift SDKs.
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AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Fastlane to Simplify iOS Deployments
CodeBuild, AWS continuous integration service, now provides Fastlane support to manage tasks such as code signing, screenshot generation, beta distribution, and app store submissions for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS apps.
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Google's Vertex AI in Firebase SDK Now Ready for Production Use
Three months after its launch in beta, the Vertex AI in Firebase SDK is now ready for production, says Google engineer Thomas Ezan, who further explores three dimensions that are essential for its successful deployment to production: abuse prevention, remote configuration, and responsible AI use.
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Apple New In-App Purchases API for Creator Platforms and Large Catalogs
Apple's new Advanced Commerce API provides iOS developers more flexibility to dynamically manage large content catalogs, creator experiences, and subscriptions with optional add-ons, such as premium features. For a developer to be allowed to use the new API, they must request access to Apple.
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Android Studio Ladybug Update Adds Gemini Support, New Debugging Features, and More
In its recent update to Android Studio Ladybug (2024.2.2), Google has added new Gemini Code Transforms to modify, refactor, or create code, debugging and testing tools, and developer experience improvements. Additionally, the IDE adopts the latest IntelliJ 2024.2 platform release.
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Improving Threads' iOS Performance at Meta
An app's performance is key to make users want to use it, say Meta engineers Dave LaMacchia and Jason Patterson. This includes making it lightning-fast, battery-efficient, and reliable across a range of devices and connectivity conditions. In a recent article, they recounted their experience with the Threads app.
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Flutter 3.27 Promotes New Rendering Engine Impeller, Improves iOS and Material Widgets, and More
Flutter 3.27, brings a wealth of changes, including better adherence to Apple's UI Guidelines thanks to a number of improved Cupertino widgets, new features for CarouselView, list rows and columns, ModalRoutes transitions, and so on. Furthermore, the new release makes the Impeller rendering engine the default, with improved performance, instrumentation support, concurrency support, and more.
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How Meta Ported Million Lines of Android Code from Java to Kotlin
In order to maximize the benefits brought by Kotlin in terms of productivity and safety, Meta engineers have been hard at work to translate their 10 million line Android codebase from Java into Kotlin. One year into this process, they have ported approximately half of their codebase and developed a specific tool, Kotlinator, to automate the process as much as possible.
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Google Launches Android XR, Its New AI-Powered Extended Reality Platform
Android XR is Google's new operating system aimed at powering devices like headsets and glasses and making possible new experiences, a.k.a. apps, running on them. Android XR will integrate Gemini, Google's AI assistant, to enable understanding user intent, defining a plan, guiding through tasks, and more.
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Challenges of Creating iOS App Extensions at Lyft
In a recent article, Lyft engineers Artur Stepaniuk and Max Husar described how Lyft handles the complexity of creating an app extension for their iOS app without breaking the tight RAM and binary size constraints set by Apple nor impair user experience.
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Kotlin Reaches 2.1.0, Bringing New Language Features, Compiler Updates, and More
Kotlin 2.1.0 introduces new syntax, including guard conditions, non-local break and continue, and multi-dollar string interpolation. Additionally, it extends its multiplatform capabilities and improves the K2 compiler.