A developer recounts how learning J2ME for Samsung phones in 2011-2012 taught them to think like an engineer, leading to a career in mobile development. They emphasize that debugging and collaboration…
Amaclass Inc. has launched HagePasha, a mobile app that provides a private, on-device space for consistent personal photos such as hairline or crown shots, without offering medical or AI-based analysi…
Google announced that its Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly users, making it the company's fastest growing product ever and its 14th to reach that milestone. CEO Sundar Pichai revealed the fi…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced via X that the Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th Google product to reach that milestone and one of the company's fastest-gr…
A new NBER working paper analyzing over 100,000 GitHub developers finds that AI coding tools boosted commits by up to 180% with autonomous agents, but gains fell to 50% for projects and 30% for releas…
Notability, the popular note-taking app previously exclusive to Apple devices, is now widely available on Android after a beta period, with a 25% discount on its Plus tier to celebrate the launch. The…
Google has canceled its standalone AI Studio mobile app before launch, despite around 800,000 users pre-ordering it on Android and iOS. The company announced on X that it will instead integrate AI Stu…
Orb - Proactive AI, an open-source AI platform founded by a solo developer, launched its iOS mobile app two weeks ago to create an AI that acts before users ask, breaking the reactive loop by scanning…
A developer reported that three features shipped in a single session with all unit tests passing, yet none ever executed in the live app due to missing argument wiring. The incidents occurred in a sol…
Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company may charge heavy users of its revamped AI-powered Siri, marking the first time Apple has confirmed it will charge for the voice assistant. Cook stated during an ear…
BPM Companion, a new app that creates cadence-matched playlists from a user's own music for running, cycling, or steady-tempo workouts, is launching a beta for Android with iOS to follow. The app anal…
IA Writer 8.0, the latest update from Information Architects, focuses on refining the writing process rather than the result, with enhanced file management, refined typography, improved Markdown expor…
Vellum has introduced Voice Mode for its personal AI assistant, enabling spoken conversation processed through the same agent loop as text chat, with speech transcribed by Deepgram and synthesized by …
Block's Buzz, a new workspace for human-agent collaboration, launched mobile apps on iOS and Android that use public-key cryptography to let users securely message and control agents running on their …
HBO Max launches a TikTok-style vertical short-form feed called 'HBO Max Shorts' for iOS users in the US and an experimental AI search feature 'Ask HBO Max' for Android users aged 18 and older, parent…
Apple plans to release an all-new smart home hub between October and early next year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The device will combine a HomePod-like speaker with a 7-inch display, run a …
A developer built an SMS-reading expense tracker for Android, but abandoned the approach after discovering that Google Play Protect blocks apps requesting SMS permissions, distribution is nearly impos…
A new catalog of 1,250 real, compiled SwiftUI components is now available, each shown with a live iOS Simulator screenshot and the exact source code that produced it, designed to be copied directly in…
A developer built a meta-repo to give AI assistants full cross-platform context across three mature mobile repos that couldn't be merged into a monorepo. The meta-repo contains shared skills, docs, an…
SafeMediaKit, a Swift-native toolkit for Apple apps, enables privacy-preserving blur, reveal, block, and report flows for user-provided images and videos using Apple's SensitiveContentAnalysis framewo…