Meta has been at work to port their Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. In the process, they have learned a number of lessons of general interest and developed a few useful approaches, explains Meta engineer Omer Strulovich. By Sergio De Simone
At its recent Kotlin 2021 Premier event, JetBrains made a number of major announcements, including K2, the new, faster Kotlin compiler, support for WebAssembly, the Kotlin Symbol Processor, a new code coverage plugin, and improved static analysis. By S…
At its recent AndroidDevSummit’21, Google announced a number of new technologies aimed to help developers build better apps across different devices and device factors. Those include Material You for Jetpack Compose, support for large screen with Andro…
The new Swift Distributed Actors package provides a glimpse into what the future distributed actor language feature could look like in Swift. By Sergio De Simone
A few months after its announcement as an alpha version, JetBrains Compose Multiplatform has reached beta, which includes many improvements and stabilizes its APIs as a step towards the 1.0 release. By Sergio De Simone
Now at 2.0, SCADE aims to enable native app development for iOS and Android using Swift. Besides many internal improvements, SCADE 2 also includes a new native IDE for macOS that replaces the previous Eclipse-based IDE. InfoQ has taken the chance to sp…
Google has launched a new initiative aimed at creating a curated collection of open source projects related to Google technologies. Google’s Dev Library will not only contain code repositories, but also articles, tools, and tutorials collected from var…
Ionic describes its new web view component, Ionic Portals, as a “supercharged” version of the native web view controls available on iOS and Android. It aims to make it easier for developers to integrate web apps with native code in an efficient way. By…
Recently open-sourced by Facebook, Mariana Trench (MT) aims to help developers to identify and prevent security and privacy bugs in Android and Java applications. By Sergio De Simone