With developer verification, Google’s Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android’s open legacy

In the coming weeks, Google will officially debut Android developer verification, which will require app makers outside the ...

Google’s New AI Certification Teaches Prompts, Research, and App Building

Google introduces an AI Professional Certificate with six courses and a capstone, plus 20+ hands-on activities, and free ...
MacRumors

Apple Seeds Second Betas of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 to Developers

Apple today seeded the second betas of upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple seeded the first betas. Registered ...
Macworld

I built a Flappy Bird clone in minutes with Apple’s AI agent

Macworld explores Apple’s new Xcode 26.3 update that integrates AI coding agents like OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude for rapid iOS app development. The author successfully created a functional ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft Launches winapp to Simplify Windows App Development

Microsoft is trying to make Windows app development feel a lot less painful. This week, the company unveiled winapp, a new open-source command-line tool designed to cut through the setup, packaging, ...
9to5Mac

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 scan a QR code to test the app on their iPhones. Here are the details. Replit announced ...
Digital Trends

Replit’s AI can build your mobile apps and push them straight to App store

We have all been there. You are sitting around with friends, maybe after a couple of drinks, and someone says, “You know what would make a great app?” You get excited, you brainstorm features, you ...
The New York Times

This Camera App Gives Your iPhone Photos Soul

We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Ben Keough Ben Keough is an editor covering cameras, working from home, ...
The Verge

Microsoft is retiring its Office Lens app on iOS and Android

The scanning features of Lens are now available in Microsoft’s OneDrive app instead. The scanning features of Lens are now available in Microsoft’s OneDrive app instead. is a senior editor and author ...
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 ...
9to5Mac

You can now watch Stanford’s 2025 SwiftUI development lectures for free

All 16 videos and supporting material from the Spring 2025 version of Stanford’s CS193p (Developing Applications for iOS using SwiftUI) course are now online, for free. Since 2020, Stanford University ...