How Swift and Kotlin Destroyed Dropbox’s Terrible C++ Pipe Dream Nate Swanner, August 27, 2019 4 min read For years, Dropbox used C++ to share features between its various platforms. It now says that dream is dead; instead,...
Die, Desserts! Google Changes Sugary Android Naming Scheme Nick Kolakowski, August 23, 2019 3 min read Well, it happened: Google finally ran out of cutesy dessert code-names for each new Android build. The next version...
Augmented Reality Really Needs This UI Lighting Feature Nate Swanner, February 1, 2019 3 min read We’ve already seen a ton of wonderful things come of developers’ work with augmented reality (AR), but a seemingly...
Amazon Rolls Out Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit for Developers Nick Kolakowski, November 26, 2018 2 min read Siri is available on iOS devices such as the iPhone, and the voice-activated Google Assistant is also supported on...
Why It’s the Best and Worst of Times for App and Game Designers Nick Kolakowski, November 9, 2018 3 min read It’s easy to forget how, just a few short years ago, not everyone owned a smartphone or tablet. In a similar vein,...
Amazon Conquered the Cloud. Is It Flagging in Other Areas? Nick Kolakowski, September 28, 2018 6 min read Thousands of businesses and developers rely on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their cloud infrastructure and tooling....
Salesforce, Apple Pairing for Mobile Enterprise Push Nick Kolakowski, September 28, 2018 3 min read Apple is making yet another run at the enterprise. That could mean quite a lot for business-centric developers and...
Google Android at 10 Continues Its March to Conquer Mobile Nick Kolakowski, September 26, 2018 7 min read Ten years ago this week, Android made its debut on a commercial device, and everything changed—both for Google and...
Apple Watch Series 4: Time to Develop That Health App? Nick Kolakowski, September 14, 2018 3 min read As expected, Apple unveiled the latest Apple Watch at its Sept. 12 event. The wearable features a number of...
A Real App Developer Union Has to Do Better Than This Nick Kolakowski, May 25, 2018 4 min read For many years, independent software developers have debated the pros and cons of unionizing. Now, a small group of iOS...
