Hacker News with Generative AI: Mobile Development

Five years of React Native at Shopify (shopify.engineering)
Five years ago, we announced that React Native (RN) is the future of mobile at Shopify. Today, we are excited to share the progress we've made, lessons learned, and what the future holds.

React Native, Mobile Development, Shopify, Software Engineering, Case Studies

314 points by onnnon 4 days ago | 206 comments

Ask HN: Coding on an iPad? (ycombinator.com)

Programming, Mobile Development, iPad, Software Development, Ask HN

9 points by tmaly 4 days ago | 18 comments

Not every user owns an iPhone (perfplanet.com)
As software engineers and technologists its common to have access to some powerful devices and super fast bandwidths. It’s highly likely that you will be developing/testing on a high end Mac (or similar) or pulling out an expensive mobile device such as an iPhone from your pocket.

Software Engineering, Mobile Development, User Experience

59 points by todsacerdoti 9 days ago | 100 comments

Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website (hyperview.org)
Hyperview is a new hypermedia format and React Native client for developing server-driven mobile apps.

Mobile Development, React Native, Web Development, Server-side Rendering, Hypermedia

245 points by brickers 11 days ago | 140 comments

A feature-rich Hacker News client (github.com/Livinglist)
A Hacker News client built with Flutter.

Mobile Development, Flutter, Hacker News, Open Source

115 points by taubek 11 days ago | 78 comments

Extracting AI models from mobile apps (altayakkus.substack.com)
If you are drinking the Kool-Aid, Artificial Intelligence is everywhere.

Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Development, Reverse Engineering

467 points by smoser 13 days ago | 236 comments

Celebrating Flutter's "Production Era" (googleblog.com)
Just over six years ago, we unveiled Flutter 1.0. Today, at #FlutterInProduction, we’re celebrating how far we’ve come — from the immense support we’ve received from thousands of contributors in the community, to the widespread adoption of Flutter as a production-grade app framework for building multi-platform app experiences.

Flutter, Mobile Development, Software Development, Google

13 points by wallflower 29 days ago | 5 comments

Making Apple Watch functional with Android (github.com/abishekmuthian)
This project aims to make Apple Watch usable with an Android Phone.

Android, Apple Watch, Cross-Platform, Wearables, Mobile Development

14 points by thunderbong 32 days ago | 2 comments

Now We're All Forked (appdecentral.com)
TLDR; I’m launching a new Swift framework called Forked for working with shared data, both on a single device, and across many.

Swift, Mobile Development, Frameworks, Data Synchronization

41 points by todsacerdoti 34 days ago | 7 comments

Show HN: A mobile app that generates mobile apps in 30 secs (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN! Daniel from YC S21 here, launching a project called aSim (https://asim.sh/), which lets people generate/simulate usable native apps (called Sims). Describe an app you want and aSim will generate it. Then, edit and refine it to better suit your needs. Sims are also shareable via links, and basic app functionality is also available through web (though mobile is much more feature complete).

Mobile Development, Software, Startups, Generative AI, No-Code

10 points by dli123 36 days ago | 4 comments

Scrcpy: Application mirrors Android devices (A/V) connected via USB or TCP (github.com/Genymobile)
This application mirrors Android devices (video and audio) connected via USB or over TCP/IP, and allows to control the device with the keyboard and the mouse of the computer. It does not require any root access. It works on Linux, Windows and macOS.

Android, Software, Mobile Development, Remote Control, Open Source

9 points by rasengan 36 days ago | 0 comments

Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen (reddit.com)
Bro been developing his 2k star plugin on a freaking touch phone 🤯🤯🤯Random (i.redd.it)

Mobile Development, Neovim, Programming, Software Development, Productivity

362 points by konradkpl 39 days ago | 179 comments

7 Multiplayer AI games built in 7 days on Rune (rune.ai)
At Rune, we're helping devs make casual multiplayer games using JS that are played by groups of friends on our iOS + Android app. There's been a lot of excitement among devs about using AI to power wacky gameplay so we added AI to the Rune SDK. To dogfood this, I decided to build out some AI games to explore what interesting gameplay could be achieved using LLMs. So I set myself a challenge.

Multiplayer Games, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Development, Game Development, JavaScript

10 points by kevinatrune 40 days ago | 1 comments

MagiskSSH – SSH server on Android without Termux (gitlab.com)

Android, Security, SSH, Mobile Development

134 points by Oxodao 40 days ago | 81 comments

Native Swift on Android, Part 2: Your First Swift Android App (skip.tools)
Swift is Apple’s recommended language for app development, and with good reason. Its safety, efficiency, and expressiveness have made it easier than ever to build fast, polished, and robust apps for the Apple ecosystem. Recent stories about Swift on Windows and Swift on the Playdate highlight developers’ desire to take advantage of Swift on other platforms too. In this series, we explore writing native Swift apps for Android with Skip.

Mobile Development, Swift, Android, Programming Languages, Cross-Platform Development

38 points by serial_dev 45 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: iOS Theremin Simulator with Hand Tracking (Beta) (apple.com)
Help developers test beta versions of their apps and App Clips using the TestFlight app. Download TestFlight on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Watch, and iMessage.

iOS, Mobile Development, Music, Beta Testing, Hand Tracking

5 points by gunzor 50 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Any tips for building a VSCode fork? (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN! I'm working on a VSCode fork to work and develop on iOS apps. I'm curious if anyone out here has any experience with building a VSCode fork and has any tips that they'd like to share.

VSCode, Forking, Development, Mobile Development, iOS

5 points by stuckinaloop 51 days ago | 3 comments

Improve your app authentication workflow with new Amazon Cognito features (amazon.com)
Introduced 10 years ago, Amazon Cognito is a service that helps you implement customer identity and access management (CIAM) in your web and mobile applications.

Amazon Cognito, Authentication, Security, Web Development, Mobile Development

7 points by mooreds 55 days ago | 1 comments

PuppyGit: Git Client for Android (github.com/catpuppyapp)
PuppyGit is A Git Client for Android, Open Source and No Ads and Free to use

Android, Git, Open Source, Mobile Development

20 points by lrm29 58 days ago | 2 comments

Xogot – Godot for iPad (xogot.com)
Introducing Xogot

Game Development, Mobile Development, Godot Engine, iPad

163 points by codetrotter 62 days ago | 41 comments

WebGPU to Officially Ship on iOS in December (twitter.com)

WebGPU, iOS, Mobile Development, Web Development, December Release

23 points by astlouis44 63 days ago | 1 comments

FlutterFlash - Ship your next Flutter app, at lightning speed (flutterfla.sh)
The Flutter boilerplate with all you need to build your next App. From idea to production in 5 minutes.

Flutter, Mobile Development, Software Development, Open Source, App Development

17 points by iamdex 64 days ago | 12 comments

WebGPU enabled by default in iOS 18.2 beta (twitter.com)

WebGPU, iOS, Beta Releases, Mobile Development

24 points by astlouis44 64 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: A minimal iPhone widget for people who love saving links (eyeball.wtf)
is a delightful iphone widget for people who love sharing links.

Mobile Development, User Interface, Web Development, Sharing

11 points by quinto_quarto 72 days ago | 6 comments

Using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps (martinfowler.com)
Incremental replacement of a legacy mobile application is a challenging concept to articulate and execute. However, we believe by making the investment in the pre-requisites of legacy modernization, it is posible to yield benefits in the long term. This article explores the Strangler Fig pattern and how it can be applied to mobile applications. We chart the journey of an enterprise who refused to accept the high cost and risk associated with a full rewrite of their mobile application.

Mobile Development, Software Architecture, Legacy Systems

57 points by timbilt 78 days ago | 13 comments

Running Julia Code on Android with Flutter and Rust and SyslabCC (Julia AOT) (github.com/thautwarm)
Running Julia Code on Android with Flutter (UI) & Rust (Build System) & SyslabCC (Julia AOT Compiler)

Mobile Development, Julia Programming, Flutter, Rust, Android

4 points by xgdgsc 79 days ago | 0 comments

An incremental approach to modernizing legacy mobile application: Strangler Fig (martinfowler.com)
Incremental replacement of a legacy mobile application is a challenging concept to articulate and execute. However, we believe by making the investment in the pre-requisites of legacy modernization, it is posible to yield benefits in the long term. This article explores the Strangler Fig pattern and how it can be applied to mobile applications. We chart the journey of an enterprise who refused to accept the high cost and risk associated with a full rewrite of their mobile application.

Mobile Development, Legacy Systems, Software Architecture, Refactoring

4 points by foweltschmerz 80 days ago | 0 comments

We're forking Flutter (flutterfoundation.dev)
Over the years, Flutter has attracted millions of developers who built user interfaces across every platform.

Flutter, Software Development, Open Source, Mobile Development

853 points by alexzeitler 81 days ago | 713 comments

New Architecture is here (reactnative.dev)
React Native 0.76 with the New Architecture by default is now available on npm!

Mobile Development, React Native, Software Updates

153 points by stigi 85 days ago | 124 comments

Godot for App Development (bearblog.dev)
Godot has some serious untapped potential when it comes to creating GUI applications for desktop and mobile. I've been saying this ever since Godot 4 came out, but now after releasing GodotOS, I feel like I finally know enough about Godot to talk about it. So let's talk about it!

Game Development, Mobile Development, Desktop Applications

7 points by liminal-dev 86 days ago | 2 comments