From Idea to App Store Screenshots Without a Designer
You built the app. It works. Then you open App Store Connect and it asks for screenshots, and you realize the thing standing between you and "submit" …
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Lesson 1.3 - GraphQL for Screen Complexity and App Changes
Good morning, class! Welcome back. In our last lesson, we explored how GraphQL fundamentally addresses the issues of over-fetching and under-fetching.…
What Does "Code Accuracy" Mean When AI Builds Your App?
When a non-technical founder asks whether an AI app builder produces "accurate" code, they usually mean one thing: does it run without crashing? That …
The Complete Retrofit Lifecycle in a Real Android App
Most Retrofit tutorials show you isolated code snippets. This article traces the entire lifecycle of a Retrofit call — from app startup to data appear…
How to Design a Mobile App With AI: The Full Workflow (Start to Finish)
I can design and build a real mobile app in an afternoon now. Not a toy. Something I'd actually put on the store. The part that changed was design. I'…
How to Build One Web App That Works on iOS, Android, and Desktop
I was working on a project a while back where the users had to use the app in three different places. They needed to use it on desktop computers at th…
Building an On-Device Training Strategy for Personalized iOS Apps
Machine learning on mobile devices is often associated with inference: download a model, run predictions, and return results. But what if the model co…
Implementing Reliable Background Uploads with Resume & Backoff
Designing uploads that survive reboots, crashes, and flaky networks Choosing the right resumable protocol: chunked, multipart, or tus Scheduling uploa…
Mobile Game Power Optimization: Why 30 FPS vs 60 FPS Can Double Energy Usage (Real Data Breakdown)
Introduction Real-world mobile game power consumption varies significantly across rendering complexity, frame rate, and device workload distribution. …
Expo's MCP Server is Now Free - Connect Your AI Assistant to Expo Projects
The Expo MCP Server dropped its paywall. Anyone with an Expo account can now hook up their AI coding assistant to Expo docs and tools. Previously, you…
WWDC 2026 - Xcode 27 Ships With Apple's Own Agent Skills: What They Are and How to Use Them
At WWDC 2026, Apple did something specific and easy to miss in the flood of Siri AI headlines: Xcode 27 now ships with a set of agent skills that Appl…
Xcode 27: The Future of Agent-Driven Development is Here
For the first time, Apple is bringing production-grade AI agents directly into the IDE. This isn't just code completion on steroids. Xcode 27 integrat…
Giving an AI Agent Hands on Bluetooth: an MCP Server in Kotlin/Native
Almost every Model Context Protocol (MCP) server you'll find wraps a web API — GitHub, a database, a SaaS tool. They give a language model new informa…
Breaking the Monolith: Achieving True Scalability in Flutter Mobile Applications
For modern software and product teams, speed is no longer just about reckless sprinting; it is about building a hyper-efficient feedback loop that tra…
OpenAPI, ORM, SVG and Lottie
This is the third follow-up to Friday's release post . Saturday's was about how you iterate; yesterday's was about new platform APIs in the core; toda…
AI, OAuth, And Other Platform APIs In The Core
This is the second follow-up to Friday's release post . It covers the platform APIs that moved into the framework core this release. There are two hea…
I wasted 6 weeks on Google Play's closed testing. Here's what finally worked.
I need to vent. And maybe save someone else from the same nightmare. The backstory I'm a solo Android dev. I've been working on my app for about 4 mon…
Accessible Forms in React Native: A Complete Reference Guide
Forms are everywhere in mobile apps - authentication flows, data entry, support requests, onboarding... If your app has a login screen, a form is like…
On-Device Debugging And JUnit 5
This is the first follow-up to Friday's release post and it covers the two changes from this release that affect how you iterate on a Codename One app…
Side Project to App Store - A Non-Technical Founder's 2026 Guide
If you're a non-technical founder shipping a React Native side project, the build is the easy part. The hard part lives between "my Expo dev build run…
Why Mobile Push Notifications Don't Arrive: 3 Critical Reasons
Mobile Push Notifications: Mysterious Disappearances and Technical Realities Mobile push notifications are one of the fastest and most effective ways …
How to Build a Reward Economy for a Mobile Game
Rewards are the language mobile games use to talk to players. Every coin drop, every chest, every daily login bonus is the game saying: "You did somet…
Building a Native QR/Barcode Scanner for React Native — New Architecture Ready
Most QR scanner libraries for React Native share the same problems — they're unmaintained, they don't support the New Architecture, or they pull in a …
"Reinstalling Won't Fix It": A Cross-App Shared-Auth Deadlock After Switching Phones
After migrating to a new Android phone, a few specific apps stopped launching. Amazon Shopping and Kindle would freeze on a blank white or black scree…
I Built 4 Real Mobile Apps With No Coding Background — Here's the Exact Workflow
I quit learning to code three times. Not because I wasn't motivated. I had app ideas I genuinely wanted to build. I bought courses, watched tutorials,…
Our first app is finally live on the Play Store after 4 months of hard work
Hey everyone 👋 After 4 months of development, testing, redesigns, debugging, deployment issues, and lots of learning — we finally launched our first a…
State Management in Production Flutter Apps: What Actually Held Up at Scale
State management rarely feels urgent on week one of a Flutter project. Screens come together fast. setState works. Provider or Riverpod gets wired up …
I built an AI app store screenshot generator because Figma made me cry — looking for brutal feedback
I'm Rishab. Every time I shipped an iOS app, I'd lose 2 days fighting Figma trying to make App Store screenshots that didn't look amateur. I'm a dev, …
Skills, Java 17, And Theme Accents
Last week was about Metal and the Skin Designer. This week the headline items are about what a brand new project looks like when you generate it: the …
Designing a Scalable Cross-Platform Appium Framework
Designing the cross-platform architecture you can maintain Applying the Page Object Model without creating accidental complexity Making parallel execu…