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Jetpack Compose for Android turns GA
Google’s ‘modern’ declarative toolkit for building native Android user interfaces is now available in a 1.0 production release.
Microsoft sunsets Xamarin toolkit
With .NET MAUI due to arrive in November 2021, Microsoft announced it would end updates to the Xamarin mobile app development platform in November 2022.
Google Flutter gains sound null safety, payments plug-in
Version 2.2 of the UI toolkit for building Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, macOS, web, and embedded applications was unveiled this week.
NativeScript 8.0 shines on Apple M1, Webpack
Latest release of the JavaScript framework for mobile app development also adds new CSS capabilities and plug-ins for ESLint, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
Google Jetpack Compose Android UI toolkit now in beta
Declarative UI toolkit is intended to ease the development of native applications across Android platforms.
Android 12 developer preview bolsters privacy, user experience
Developers can play with new capabilities in security, privacy, media transcoding, rich content insertion, audio, and more.
Android Studio improves machine learning support
Android Studio 4.1 highlights include a database inspector and easier import of TensorFlow Lite models into Android apps
Kotlin mobile SDK shares code across Android, iOS
The Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile plug-in allows developers to write, run, and debug shared code in Android Studio
Google’s UI toolkit for Android moves to alpha release
A production version of the framework for building Android UIs, called Jetpack Compose, is due next year
Bootstrap 5.0 alpha arrives, sans jQuery
Update to the mobile-first website framework promises lighter file sizes and faster page loading
Microsoft enables native mobile development with Blazor
Mobile Blazor Bindings allow developers to build native Android and iOS using C#, .NET, and web programming patterns
JetBrains bringing iOS device support to Android Studio
JetBrains plug-in for Android Studio will allow developers to run, test, and debug Kotlin on iOS devices and simulators
Android Studio 4.0 backs native UI toolkit
Now available in a preview release, the Android Studio 4.0 ‘Canary’ upgrade works with the JetPack Compose UI toolkit and improves Java 8 support
Android Studio 4.0 backs native UI toolkit
Now available in a preview release, the Android Studio 4.0 ‘Canary’ upgrade works with the JetPack Compose UI toolkit and improves Java 8 support
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How to build a mobile app on Azure
Among the major clouds offering mobile back ends as a service, InfoWorld judged Microsoft’s to be the best. Now you can get started with Azure Mobile Services, and create your mobile app fast
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