Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind

Google created a benchmark earlier this year to evaluate how LLMs perform in Android app development, and Android Bench is ...

How to run Linux GUI apps on Android (when it actually works)

After all, the Android kernel is based on the Linux kernel, and Google already gave us Linux terminal support for ...

I tried the Lovable no-code app development platform, and saw how it uses AI to create, extend, and debug fully responsive, feature-rich web apps

Lovable makes extensive use of AI to help anyone create, and publish web apps with ease.
GitHub

Android for VS Code

This is a preview version of the Android for VS Code Extension. The extension allows developers to install, launch and debug Android Apps from within the VS Code ...
techtimes

How React Native Mobile Transforms iOS and Android App Development with Expo CLI and React Native CLI

Learn how React Native Mobile simplifies iOS and Android app creation using the versatile mobile app framework with Expo CLI and React Native CLI for cross-platform development. React Native - ...
Android

Apple’s Swift Language is Now Officially on Android to Break App Development Barriers

The latest Swift 6.3 update introduces the first official Swift SDK for Android. This allows developers to build native Android apps or integrate Swift code into existing Kotlin/Java projects. The ...
theregister

Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts

Google has released Android Studio Panda 2, a feature drop including an AI agent that can create apps from scratch and an AI-driven version upgrade assistant. The AI in Android Studio is by default ...
InfoQ

Running Java on iOS: Gluon Introduces OpenJDK Mobile Resources and Automated Build Pipelines

The long-awaited Hotspot-on-iOS project is reporting major progress: OpenJDK is now able to build and run on iOS. This is the next milestone on a journey that started a long time ago; InfoQ first ...
Hackaday

Going Native With Android’s Native Development Kit

Originally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated environment. Compared to platforms like iOS with Objective-C, which is just C ...
TechSpot

Massively popular Android VPN apps are insecure, all secretly tied to one Chinese company

Editor's take: In theory, VPN services and applications are meant to offer customers enhanced privacy and data security online. In practice, however, an alarmingly high number of VPNs fail to deliver ...
InfoWorld

SmartBear unveils AI-driven test automation for iOS and Android apps

SmartBear has launched Reflect Mobile, an AI-powered, no-code, test automation tool kit that enables QA professionals to test native apps across the iOS and Android mobile platforms. Announced June 11 ...
malavida

Android Studio

Download Android Studio for PC for free and discover the new integrated development environment for Android based on IntelliJ IDEA, considered as the best Java development environment. A replacement ...