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I ran local LLMs on my phone for a week, and now my desktop setup feels like overkill

After a week of running local LLMs exclusively on an iPhone, the author found mobile performance surprisingly close to desktop. The Gemma E2B (5B para…

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. …

🚀 Day 0/30: Building a Real Android App for a Client in Public

Today marks the start of a new challenge. For the next 30 days, I'll be building a real Android application for a client and documenting the journey p…

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…

Expo Router v56 Ships SSR and Breaks Free from React Navigation

Expo Router just made its biggest change since launch. Version 56 forks from React Navigation, adds streaming server-side rendering, and gives Android…

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…

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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…

Write Swift and Kotlin directly in your React Native app with Expo SDK 56

Working with native code in React Native usually involves creating separate packages and manually maintaining TypeScript interfaces. Expo SDK 56 chang…

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…

I abandoned my campus app 3 years ago. The Finish-Up-A-Thon made me fix it

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built CampusBeat 2.0 — a React Native campus super-app for students across 17 co…

I learned how to build an AI wrapper by shipping a real app

I'm not an AI researcher. I'm a backend developer with 16 years of Laravel and PHP experience who wanted to build something with AI. So I did what mad…

Stop fighting Figma for App Store screenshots — I built a tool that exports the whole set in one click

If you've ever shipped a mobile app, you know the part nobody warns you about: the store screenshots . You finish the app, you're ready to submit, and…

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…

Submitting to App Store and Play Store as a solo developer - what actually happened

I submitted Termique to the App Store and Play Store three days ago. It's live now. Here's what the process actually looked like, because most guides …

Building the first Dart/Flutter client for MG/SAIC connected vehicles: where AI did more than write code

Last weekend, I unlocked my car using my own Dart package (according to pub.dev, the first one ever built for it). I walked down to the parking lot, o…

From Website to Mobile App: How I Used Capacitor to Build an Android App

From Website to Mobile App: How I Used Capacitor to Build an Android App Did you know you can turn your existing website into a native Android app wit…

Building Twitter-style Collapsible Tabs in React Native (the easy way)

The problem Almost every social / commerce app eventually needs the same screen: A large header on top, a row of tabs underneath, and as you scroll, t…

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…

From Concept to Production

This case study was developed as a product for an Instagram and TikTok blogger. We all remember the buzz surrounding Cal AI. Many popular bloggers wan…

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…

How WhatsApp Works Without Internet: Offline Messaging and Synchronization Explained

Imagine you're traveling on a flight with airplane mode enabled. You type a message to your friend: "Hey, I just landed. Will call you soon." You tap …

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…