Apple’s Swift Language is Now Officially on Android to Break App Development Barriers

Apple's Swift 6.3 officially brings Android support with a new SDK, simplifying cross-platform apps and boosting feature consistency.

6 Android 17 features in development I can't wait to use

It's only been a few weeks since Google rolled out the Android 16 QPR3 update, which brought changes like the ability to hide the At a Glance widget, customize navigation buttons, and enable Desktop ...
9to5Google

Swift, a coding language developed by Apple, now offers official Android support

Roughly a year after the effort was announced, the Apple-developed coding language, Swift, has just launched support for Android.

Android’s new sideloading delay won’t be as frustrating as you feared

The only way to bypass the initial 24-hour delay is by using ADB commands. But not everyone is comfortable with ADB, and it requires access to a PC, which isn’t always possible. Allowing the advanced ...
IEEE

Toward Automatic Heap Exploit Generation by Using Heap Layout Constraints on Binary Programs

Abstract: Automatic exploit generation (AEG) is widely recognized as one of the most effective methods for assessing the risk level of vulnerabilities. To exploit heap-related vulnerabilities, it is ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
Android Authority

Survey confirms it: Your favorite Android 17 Beta 1 change is exactly what we expected

Last month, Google delivered our very first real taste of Android 17, with the release of Beta 1. Development is moving forward at a solid pace, and in the weeks since we’ve already gotten our hands ...
Harvard Business Review

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

A new study finds that certain patterns of AI use are driving cognitive fatigue, while others can help reduce burnout. by Julie Bedard, Matthew Kropp, Megan Hsu, Olivia T. Karaman, Jason Hawes and ...
CBS News

United Airlines can now boot passengers who refuse to use headphones with their devices

Megan Cerullo is a New York-based reporter for CBS MoneyWatch covering small business, workplace, health care, consumer spending and personal finance topics. She regularly appears on CBS News 24/7 to ...
Android Authority

8 Gemini tricks on Android most people still aren’t using

Gemini is perhaps the best thing to happen to Android since Google Assistant — and it’s constantly pushing the boundaries in smartphone AI. Google recently started testing a full-blown agentic mode ...
GitHub

lalakii/android_smtp_client

SmtpClient is a lightweight, pure-Java SMTP client library for Android.It supports STARTTLS (port 587) and implicit TLS (port 465), AUTH LOGIN, UTF-8 subjects and HTML bodies (base64), priority levels ...