Musings about mobile app development
Apple announced late Friday a number of upcoming changes to App Store pricing tiers in countries across the world. Prices will increase in Colombia, Egypt, Hungary, Nigeria, Norway, South Africa, and the United Kingdom while they will decrease in Uzbekistan on February 13. Prices in Ireland, Luxembourg, Singapore, and Zimbabwe won’t increase, but there will …
Google is today announcing an upcoming change for the Play Console that’s designed to make it easier to know what modifications need to be reviewed when publishing. From the Android Developer blog: One challenge you’ve shared with us is a lack of predictability and control over the app review process. Previously, it was hard to …
Apple has overnight rolled out release candidates for the following platforms: The release candidates are available to download now for developers via the Apple Developer Center. The updates are expected to be released to the general public next week.
As predicted by recent rumours, Apple has overnight announced updates to the MacBook Pro and Mac mini line including new M2 Pro and M2 Max chips. Building on the unprecedented power efficiency of Apple silicon, battery life on MacBook Pro is now up to 22 hours — the longest battery life ever in a Mac.2 For …
In yet another sudden move, Twitter has now selectively suspended popular third-party clients without warning or notice. It feels like the end of an era – for the early years of the iPhone, Twitter clients were a thriving, fertile playground for exploration of touch-centric UI elements and paradigms. Functionality that would eventually become a platform …
Android Developers Blog: It’s a new year, and now a new stable version of Android Studio. First announced in May last year at Google I/O 2022, Electric Eel brings a number of highly-anticipated changes for Android Developers working with Jetpack Compose such as automatic updates, and the new Layout Inspector that helps show where recompositions …
Point-Free: We are excited to open source a brand new dependency management system for Swift applications. It makes it easy to propagate dependencies deep into your application in an ergonomic, but also safe, manner. Once you start to control your dependencies you will instantly be able to write simpler tests, unlock new superpowers from Xcode previews, improve …
Apple has issued the second developer betas for the following platforms, ahead of an expected release in the coming months: The betas don’t appear to contain any significant changes from the initial release late last year, but full release notes are available for developers in the Apple Developer portal.
Bloomberg (Mark Gurman): Apple Inc., after seven years of development, is nearly ready to launch its first mixed-reality headset. But the focus on this new product will lead to an otherwise muted 2023. Up until fairly recently, Apple had aimed to introduce the headset in January 2023 and ship it later this year. Now the company is aiming to unveil …
Ars Technica: Lars Bergstrom, Android’s director of engineering, wants RISC-V to be seen as a “tier-1 platform” in Android, which would put it on par with Arm. That’s a big change from just six months ago. Bergstrom says getting optimized Android builds on RISC-V will take “a lot of work” and outlined a roadmap that …