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How to Set Up Flutter Code Push With Shorebird and Codemagic

Mobile developers using Javascript-based mobile application development platforms such as Cordova, Ionic and React Native have enjoyed the benefit of being able to push app updates over-the-air without resubmitting their apps to the App Store or Google Play for quite some time. As long as the updates are not compiled code, and don’t change the primary purpose of the application then both Apple and Google allow this.

Optimising iOS builds with Tuist and Codemagic CI/CD

👋 Welcome to our guide on using Tuist and Codemagic CI/CD for mobile developers. In this guide, we’ll focus on how you can utilize the capabilities of Tuist, a command-line tool that helps maintain and interact with Xcode projects, in conjunction with Codemagic to expedite your build processes. We can significantly enhance build speed and efficiency through smart caching techniques. 🚀

Working with native elements in Flutter: Platform Channel vs Pigeon vs Foreign Function Interface (FFI)

Dart and Flutter are a powerful duo when building software applications, ranging from mobile apps - Android and iOS; to desktop apps - Linux, Windows, and macOS. Flutter is sufficient to handle most application features. However, some apps involve deeper integration with their platform components. Flutter boasts of smooth and easy-to-setup mechanisms for communication between Flutter and platform hosts.

What's new from Google I/O 2023 for developers: Key announcements

This years I/O can be easily summed up by just one phrase: “AI”. AI absolutely everywhere. Sundar Pichai started, mentioned numerous times and ended the Keynote by mentioning AI. Some of the main announcements around AI for developers included the general availablity of “Bard” supporting 20 programming languages and use of the “PaLM 2” based models with some like “Gecko” small enough to run on mobile devices.

Migrating your iOS projects and CI/CD to Apple Silicon M1 & M2 Macs

Apple Silicon processors have revolutionized the desktop and laptop CPU landscape. The transition from Intel’s x86_64 architecture to Apple’s arm64 was smooth for consumers thanks to the Rosetta 2 emulator. This emulator enables the translation of x86_64 instructions to arm64 with minimal performance degradation.