Hacker News with Generative AI: Mobile Development

DSLs for Safe iOS/WatchOS Communication (defn.io)
I'm currently writing an Apple Watch counterpart app for Podcatcher.
"A calculator app? Anyone could make that." Not true (twitter.com)
PyPI Now Supports iOS and Android Wheels for Mobile Python Development (socket.dev)
In a landmark development for the Python community, the Python Packaging Index (PyPI) has officially begun accepting and distributing pre-compiled binary packages, known as "wheels," for both iOS and Android platforms.
Run Deepseek R1 Locally on an iPhone (apple.com)
Pocket: Der einfachste Weg, private LLMs zu nutzen. Es funktioniert vollständig offline und gewährleistet Ihre Privatsphäre, auch ohne Internetverbindung.
Show HN: Open-source RSVP app using Supabase and Flutter (github.com/gruprsvp)
With GRUP, you can create recurring events, invite friends, and keep track of their RSVPs.
Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN — we’re Seth and Ayo and we’re building a0.dev (https://a0.dev). a0.dev is a platform built to cut down React Native development time from weeks to just a few hours.
Push Notifications for Decentralized Services (unifiedpush.org)
How mobile push notifications currently bring centralization to decentralized services, and how we can avoid it, even for mainstream configurations.
Show HN: Poplar – Text, media, and live chat in a dynamic grid (pplr.app)
Poplar is designed for your phone
Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket (defn.io)
I made a podcast player for iOS. It's called Podcatcher and it's live on the iOS App Store!
Android SMS Gateway Using MQTT (github.com/ibnux)
This is modified from my SMS Gateway Based Push Notification to turn your android phone as sms gateway
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.
Ask HN: Coding on an iPad? (ycombinator.com)
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.
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.
A feature-rich Hacker News client (github.com/Livinglist)
A Hacker News client built with Flutter.
Extracting AI models from mobile apps (altayakkus.substack.com)
If you are drinking the Kool-Aid, Artificial Intelligence is everywhere.
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.
Making Apple Watch functional with Android (github.com/abishekmuthian)
This project aims to make Apple Watch usable with an Android Phone.
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.
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).
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.
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)
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.
MagiskSSH – SSH server on Android without Termux (gitlab.com)
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.
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.
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.
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.
PuppyGit: Git Client for Android (github.com/catpuppyapp)
PuppyGit is A Git Client for Android, Open Source and No Ads and Free to use
Xogot – Godot for iPad (xogot.com)
Introducing Xogot