I wish every Android app looked as good as this one

Not all apps are created equal, but one stands out as a shining star in a world of subpar experiences on Android.

You can publish apps from Manus without Xcode or Android Studio

Manus is adding app publishing that aims to turn a described app into an installable mobile build, handling packaging while ...

Replit now lets you vibe code iOS apps, but don’t get carried away

With a new tool called Mobile Apps by Replit, users can describe their idea, let Replit do its thing, and then test the app ...

The rise of ‘micro’ apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them

It is a new era of app creation that is sometimes called micro apps, personal apps, or fleeting apps because they are ...

Viral app in China taps into national loneliness by asking: ‘Are You Dead?’

In recent weeks, a morbid-sounding app has taken China by storm, tapping into widespread loneliness and youth disaffection in ...
Wired

Apple’s App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?

Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit’s wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps. Not everyone lands coding jobs right away. But Fernandez ...
ExtremeTech

Google Introduces New Android Verification Rules, Will Still Let Some Users Side-Load Apps

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Bleeping Computer

Google backpedals on new Android developer registration rules

Google is backpedaling on its decision to introduce new identity verification rules for all developers, stating that it will also introduce accounts for limited app distribution and will allow users ...
InfoWorld

Swift SDK arrives for Android development

The Swift Android workgroup has announced nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android, a tool kit for developing Android mobile applications with Apple’s Swift language. Instructions for ...
MacRumors

Developers Can Now Make Android Apps With Apple's Swift

The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with official tooling and making it easier to share code across iOS ...
TechSpot

F-Droid warns crackdown on Android app sideloading could kill open app stores

The takeaway: App sideloading has been a contentious issue since the dawn of mobile computing. Google is now taking a hardline approach, citing alleged security concerns, but a major app platform is ...
Bleeping Computer

Google to verify all Android devs to protect users from malware

Google is introducing a new defense for Android called ‘Developer Verification’ to block malware installations from sideloaded apps sourced from outside the official Google Play app store. For apps on ...