Shopify announced it is abandoning React Native and migrating all of its mobile apps back to native Swift and Kotlin, citing AI coding agents that cut the cost of building for two platforms below main…
Shopify is abandoning React Native and returning to separate Swift and Kotlin native codebases, citing AI coding agents that make cross-platform code sharing less necessary. The company plans to archi…
Shopify is migrating all of its mobile apps back to native Swift and Kotlin, reversing its 2020 bet on React Native, according to a September 10 engineering post. A six-engineer team rebuilt the Shop …
A developer has published a pattern for wiring Android's WorkManager to a quantized on-device LLM, using llama.cpp via JNI, to run chunked document summarization in the background without OOM kills or…
Shopify migrated its Shop app from React Native to fully native Swift and Kotlin code, a move the company said was enabled by advances in coding agents, after a one-week proof of concept by a single e…
Developer Kriddss3 has open-sourced Kryzz AI, a local-first Android AI workspace for chat, voice, and tool-driven agents. The MIT-licensed app, built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, stores credential…
Explyt product manager reviews a debugging session in which a developer used the company's AI agent for JetBrains IDEs to resolve a single symptom in a Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Kafka payments system, …
JetBrains' September 2026 Java Annotated Monthly highlights the release of JDK 27, which includes nine JEPs, with compact object headers enabled by default (JEP 534) reducing heap usage by 10%–20% and…
Google has released version 1.0.0 of its Gen AI Kotlin SDK, providing Kotlin developers an idiomatic interface to integrate Gemini models across Android, server-side, and multiplatform projects. The S…
A developer's controlled comparison of two AI debugging workflows found that an agent using the Superpowers systematic-debugging skill missed a real bug despite following a structured method, while Ex…
Google has released version 1.0 of the Google Gen AI SDK for Kotlin, a Kotlin Multiplatform library providing idiomatic access to Gemini models for JVM and Android developers. The SDK, available on Ma…
Bupa's modernization of its My Bupa mobile app, moving from Xamarin to native Swift and Kotlin, improved the app rating from 3.7 to 4.7 and reduced the user-perceived crash rate by nearly 24 percentag…
A developer's field notes detail the implementation of on-device tool calling in a fitness app using the Needle 2 model, a 45M-parameter, 2-bit quantized model that runs entirely on CPU with about 28 …
DailyVox, a free voice journal app for iPhone, claims 100% on-device AI processing with no network permission, no account, and no data collection, using four on-device models to create a 'Digital Twin…
A software developer argues that formal computer science education and algorithmic problem-solving skills are essential for using AI to program, comparing unqualified AI users to untrained scalpel han…
Noctua, an open-source Kotlin SDK for the Oura Ring, provides on-device AI wellness insights and next-day readiness forecasts without uploading health data to the cloud. The SDK includes a typed Oura …
Chromia's Rell language compiler was rewritten in five weeks using AI agents, a task that would have taken most of a year by hand, according to a developer who led the effort. The rewrite replaced a t…
A developer detailed a method for implementing object detection on Android devices to enable autonomous robots to recognize objects locally, reducing reliance on network connectivity. The approach use…
A developer detailed a tutorial on building a voice-controlled robot using Kotlin and large language models. The design captures speech on Android, parses it with an LLM into structured commands, and …
A developer outlines an architecture for building AI robots that combines Android for the operator interface, NVIDIA Jetson for edge AI compute, and ROS 2 for robotics middleware. The design uses a se…