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Flutter 2.8 and Dart 2.15 Focus on Performance Improvement
Flutter 2.8 focuses on improving app startup time, reducing memory footprint, and making it easier for developers to profile performance issues. Along with it, Google has announced a new Dart version, Dart 2.15, improving worker isolates, introducing constructor tear-off, and extending enums.
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Improve Android App Startup Times Like Facebook and Google Do
In a recent article, engineers from Google and Facebook provided their hints at what matters the most when reducing the time it takes for an Android app to become responsive on launch and ensuring an optimal user experience.
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XCRemoteCache Aims to Speed up iOS App Build Times
Spotify created XCRemoteCache to reduce Xcode compile times. Recently open-sourced, XCRemoteCache can decrease clean build times by 70%, says Spotify.
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Kotlin 1.6.0 Released
JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.6.0 which ships with new language features, an improved standard library, and other new functionalities such as exhaustive when statements, a new experimental memory manager for Kotlin/Native, and Kover to measure code coverage.
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Building Large-Scale iOS Apps at Airbnb
The Airbnb iOS team addressed the challenge of its growing mobile app codebase and complexity by adopting new tools and processes, including a modern build systems, module types, and dev apps.
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JetBrains Debuts New Kotlin Compiler K2, Kotlin for WebAssembly, and More
At its recent Kotlin 2021 Premier event, JetBrains made a number of major announcements, including K2, the new, faster Kotlin compiler, support for WebAssembly, the Kotlin Symbol Processor, a new code coverage plugin, and improved static analysis.
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Google Embraces Large-Screen Android Devices at DevSummit 21
At its recent AndroidDevSummit'21, Google announced a number of new technologies aimed to help developers build better apps across different devices and device factors. Those include Material You for Jetpack Compose, support for large screen with Android 12L, extended Jetpack library, and more.
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Swift Experimentally Introduces Support for Distributed Actors
The new Swift Distributed Actors package provides a glimpse into what the future distributed actor language feature could look like in Swift.
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JetBrains Compose Multiplatform Reaches Beta
A few months after its announcement as an alpha version, JetBrains Compose Multiplatform has reached beta, which includes many improvements and stabilizes its APIs as a step towards the 1.0 release.
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Swift for Android Makes Major Step Forward with SCADE 2.0
Now at 2.0, SCADE aims to enable native app development for iOS and Android using Swift. Besides many internal improvements, SCADE 2 also includes a new native IDE for macOS that replaces the previous Eclipse-based IDE. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with SCADE creator Frank Langel to learn more.
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Google's Dev Library is a Curated Collection of Projects about Google Tech
Google has launched a new initiative aimed at creating a curated collection of open source projects related to Google technologies. Google's Dev Library will not only contain code repositories, but also articles, tools, and tutorials collected from various Internet sources.
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Ionic Portals Aims to Simplify the Integration of Web Apps into iOS and Android Native Code
Ionic describes its new web view component, Ionic Portals, as a "supercharged" version of the native web view controls available on iOS and Android. It aims to make it easier for developers to integrate web apps with native code in an efficient way.
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Ubuntu Frame Aims to Power Ubuntu Core-Based Kiosks
Ubuntu Frame aims to power graphical applications for embedded devices like interactive kiosks, smart retail solutions, and so on.
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Facebook Mariana Trench Helps Developers to Find Vulnerabilities in Android and Java Apps
Recently open-sourced by Facebook, Mariana Trench (MT) aims to help developers identify and prevent security and privacy bugs in Android and Java applications.
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Swift 5.5 Extends Concurrency Support, Enums, Property Wrappers, and More
The latest release of Apple's language, Swift 5.5, introduces new features aimed at making it easier for developers to write asynchronous code as well as several extensions to the language and compiler, not the least CGFloat and Double interchangeability.