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State of Unreal 2025 recap

Friday, July 18, 2025 by Freeman Lightner

https://appdevelopermagazine.com/fortnite-returns-to-ios/The State of Unreal 2025 recently concluded, offering the audience a first look at the cutting-edge technologies Epic Games is developing and releasing to help developers and creators build immersive experiences. All the big news and announcements from the State of Unreal 2025 The show began with a technical...

Red Hat Generative AI

Friday, July 18, 2025 by Richard Harris

Red Hat, the provider of open source solutions, recently announced Red Hat AI Inference Server, a significant step towards democratizing generative AI (gen AI) across the hybrid cloud. A new offering within Red Hat AI, the enterprise-grade inference server is born from the powerful vLLM community project and enhanced by Red Hat’s integration of Neural Magic techno...

OpenAI Codex overview

Thursday, July 17, 2025 by Freeman Lightner

OpenAI recently announced the launch of Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent capable of handling multiple tasks simultaneously. Codex assists with writing features, answering questions about codebases, fixing bugs, and proposing pull requests for review, all within individual cloud sandbox environments preloaded with user repositories. OpenAI Codex overvie...

Infragistics Releases Ultimate 25.1

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 by Austin Harris

Infragistics, the provider of tools and solutions to accelerate application design and development, recently announced the launch of Infragistics Ultimate 25.1, the company's flagship UX and UI product. The enhanced Infragistics Ultimate UI/UX toolkit offers a comprehensive library of enterprise-grade UI controls and includes the exclusive l...

Building the Future of Web Automation

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield

Browserbase, the company behind cutting-edge browser infrastructure for automation, announced a major product update recently, reinforcing its vision for the future of intelligent web automation. Founded just 16 months ago, Browserbase has rapidly become foundational to how businesses leverage AI to streamline online workflows. CEO and Founder Paul Klein shared that ...

2025 Swift Student Challenge winners

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger

Apple recently spotlighted four young developers among the 350 global winners of its 2025 Swift Student Challenge, an initiative that empowers students to explore the power of coding through creative app playgrounds. Representing the next generation of innovation and driven by personal experiences and local challenges, the selected Distinguished Winners - Taiki Hamamoto...

Deep Research launches in Azure AI

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Richard Harris

Microsoft has announced the public preview of Deep Research, a new feature within the Azure AI Foundry Agent Service. This offering delivers OpenAI’s advanced agentic research capabilities as an API and SDK solution, integrated directly with Azure’s enterprise-grade agentic platform. Deep Research Launches in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service: Enterprise-Sca...

AppsFlyer Data Trends Report

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Austin Harris

AppsFlyer, the provider in marketing measurement, attribution, and data analytics, has released its annual lookback at the past year's mobile app trends. The year saw notable growth in user acquisition ad spend and revenue fueled by increasingly advanced monetization strategies and the expanded use of AI in marketing. The findings reflect the industry’s increa...

Microsoft Dev Drive launched for developers

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Richard Harris

Microsoft has announced the launch of Dev Drive, a new storage volume designed to meet the performance, security, and control needs of developers. Built on the Resilient File System (ReFS) and combined with a new performance mode capability in Microsoft Defender Antivirus, Dev Drive delivers up to 30% faster build times compared to the current Windows 11 (22H2) configur...

Swift Project Launches Android Workgroup

Monday, July 14, 2025 by Austin Harris

The Swift programming language community has announced the formation of the Android Workgroup, a new initiative dedicated to making Android an officially supported platform for Swift. This landmark development marks a significant step forward in Swift's evolution as a truly cross-platform language for modern software development. Swift Project Launches Android Wo...

How 27 programming languages differ in energy consumption

Monday, July 14, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield

A research team from Portugal has conducted a comprehensive study analyzing how different programming languages impact energy consumption, execution time, and memory usage. Their findings were published in the paper Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages, as reported by technology news outlet The New Stack. The Most Energy-Efficient Programming Languages Reve...

Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers terminals

Sunday, July 13, 2025 by Freeman Lightner

Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals with unmatched access for individuals. For developers, the command line interface (CLI) is not just a tool; it is home. The terminal’s efficiency, ubiquity, and portability make it the go-to utility for getting work done. As developers' reliance on the terminal endures, so...

Top 3 Google IO announcements

Sunday, July 13, 2025 by Richard Harris

Google Play remains committed to helping people discover experiences they love, while empowering developers to bring ideas to life and build successful businesses. This year’s Google I/O event featured a wide range of announcements aimed at advancing those goals. For a full overview of everything shared, developers and users can visit the blog post recapping What&...

20 AI tools every developer should be using right now

Saturday, July 12, 2025 by Richard Harris

"Reports of my job’s death are greatly exaggerated." If you’re a developer in 2025, you might feel a bit like Mark Twain updating that famous quip for the AI age. The tech world is buzzing with artificial intelligence that can write code, catch bugs, and even predict what you’re going to type next. It’s equal parts exciting an...

2025 Artifact Management Report

Thursday, July 10, 2025 by Richard Harris

The 2025 Artifact Management Report arrives at a moment of profound change for software development teams worldwide. As organizations grapple with unprecedented security challenges, rapid AI adoption, and complex software supply chains, this year’s findings expose the critical gaps and evolving expectations surrounding artifact management. With software now the ba...

Google Cloud and Somnia bring AI to gaming and game development

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 by Austin Harris

Somnia, the high-performance Layer 1 blockchain supported by a $270m fund and designed for reactive, fully on-chain applications in gaming and entertainment, recently announced a collaboration with Google Cloud. This collaboration integrates Google Cloud's sophisticated technical infrastructure, AI agent development platform and frameworks, and robust security fe...

Infragistics launches major updates

Thursday, June 26, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger

Infragistics announced the launch of Infragistics Ultimate 25.1, the company's flagship UX and UI product. The enhanced Infragistics Ultimate UI/UX toolkit offers a comprehensive library of enterprise-grade UI controls and includes the exclusive low-code WYSIWYG App Builder for developing modern, high-performance, and engaging apps across major frameworks. F...

SCTE TechExpo25

Monday, June 23, 2025 by Richard Harris

SCTE’s TechExpo25 has unveiled its agenda, setting the stage for the most future-focused TechExpo yet. Taking place in Washington, D.C., from September 29 to October 1 and co-hosted by Comcast and NCTA-The Internet & Television Association, the event will bring together leading technologists, innovators, policymakers, and industry executives to explore the bre...

BLACK app empowers student collaboration

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 by Freeman Lightner

In a time when academic pressure and digital distractions are at their peak, students are increasingly in need of tools that simplify communication, streamline resource sharing, and foster collective learning. Rising to meet this challenge is BLACK, a student-built mobile application developed with one clear goal, to transform how students collaborate. The creator be...

Cribl Copilot Editor brings AI-driven telemetry

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 by Richard Harris

Cribl announced Copilot Editor, an advancement in Cribl’s AI-powered telemetry management solution that significantly increases productivity for IT and security professionals, reduces manual effort, all while preventing critical errors through human-in-the-loop controls. Copilot Editor uses AI to help IT and security teams more easily do schema mapping, t...

Video deluxe 2026 and Video Pro X17

Monday, June 16, 2025 by Richard Harris

Just in time for the start of the vacation season, Berlin-based software company MAGIX presents the latest version of its successful entry-level video editing program, Video deluxe 2026, and the new generation of its video editing software for advanced video enthusiasts, Video Pro X17. Both software products boast new AI features designed to aid users in the categorizat...

Amazon Q Developer now available in GitHub preview

Friday, June 13, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield

Amazon Q Developer is now available in preview on GitHub, providing a powerful tool for developers who use GitHub for both professional and personal projects. This integration allows developers to leverage Amazon Q Developer for feature development, code reviews, and Java code migration directly within the GitHub interface. Amazon Q Developer now available in GitHub ...

Advancing Windows for AI development

Friday, June 13, 2025 by Richard Harris

At Build 2025, Microsoft reaffirmed its commitment to empowering the global developer community by showcasing new tools and capabilities designed to make Windows the ultimate development platform in the age of artificial intelligence. With a focus on flexibility, performance, and security, Windows continues to evolve into a powerful foundation for AI innovation, both on...

Apple's WWDC 2025: Innovation for everyone except app developers

Wednesday, June 11, 2025 by Richard Harris

Apple’s WWDC 2025 keynote was a spectacle of contrasts. On one hand, it dazzled developers with a Liquid Glass design aesthetic and a boatload of polished features across iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and more. They even threw in some whimsical flair, from cheeky Formula 1 references to a piano man crooning App Store reviews on stage. It felt like Apple was serenad...

Veo 3 and the creativity bottleneck

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 by Richard Harris

Let’s say you just paid $249 for a shiny new tool, one promising to unlock next-generation video creation with the power of AI. You’ve heard the buzz. The sample videos are slick. The camera work is cinematic. The characters? Lifelike. There’s even synchronized dialogue and ambient sound. It’s called Veo 3, and it’s Google’s big swing...

Using Porkbun for your .app or .dev domain

Monday, June 2, 2025 by Richard Harris

When you’re a developer, your domain name isn’t just a URL, it’s part of your product and personal branding. Whether you’re launching a new app, showcasing your portfolio, or launching your latest side project, how you present your work online matters. And more than ever, developers are turning to .app and .dev domains to make that first impressi...

iOS app pre-ordering process guide

Monday, June 2, 2025 by Richard Harris

Pre-ordering apps on the iOS App Store is a powerful tool for developers looking to build excitement and gauge interest before a product's official release. Apple provides a robust system that enables developers to make their apps available for pre-order, allowing users to view the product page, learn about the features, and place a pre-order that automatically down...

Android cloud backup app scaled to 800K users with no team

Friday, May 30, 2025 by Richard Harris

When cloud backups were not yet standard on Android, Arth Patel built Contacts Backup, one of the platform’s first apps to let users backup their contacts to the cloud, long before Google’s native solutions were reliable or widely adopted. Created entirely solo using PHP and shared hosting, the app prioritized simplicity and trust. It grew to serve over 800,...

Apple Ads Search Results Benchmarks Report 2025

Friday, May 30, 2025 by Richard Harris

SplitMetrics’ 2025 Apple Ads Search Results Benchmarks Report, covering performance data from January to December 2024, offers a deep analytical dive into how search results campaigns fared across categories, regions, and timeframes. SplitMetrics, a global software company and certified Apple Ads Partner, used data from its Acquire platform to compile this extensi...

Unreal Fest Orlando 2025

Thursday, May 29, 2025 by Richard Harris

Unreal Fest Orlando 2025 is set to take place at the Orange County Convention Center in the North-South Halls from June 2 to June 5. This year’s event marks a major milestone as the State of Unreal will be hosted at Unreal Fest for the first time. It’s an exciting opportunity for creators, developers, and enthusiasts across industries to gather, learn, and c...

Fortnite returns to iOS

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 by Richard Harris

Fortnite has returned to the iOS App Store in the United States after nearly five years of absence, marking a turning point in the strained relationship between Epic Games and Apple. This reappearance is not just a routine relisting of a popular mobile game, it signifies a dramatic shift in the power struggle between large tech platforms and the developers who rely on t...

COMPUTEX 2025 recap

Monday, May 26, 2025 by Richard Harris

At Computex 2025 in Taipei, ASUS delivered a powerful demonstration of its evolving philosophy, summarized by the theme “Ubiquitous AI. Incredible Possibilities.” The event served as a platform for ASUS to articulate how artificial intelligence is now foundational to every segment of its business, from high-performance computing infrastructure and creative t...

AI harms addressed by Anthropic

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 by Austin Harris

As AI capabilities rapidly advance, understanding and addressing the full spectrum of potential impacts becomes increasingly important. Today, we're sharing insights into our evolving approach to assessing and mitigating various harms that could result from our systems, ranging from catastrophic scenarios like biological threats to critical concerns like child safet...

Tips from NVIDIA to stand out in the AI job market

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger

As graduation season approaches, a new generation of students is stepping into the workforce, eager to leverage their passions and skills to make a tangible impact on the world. For many, this means one thing — landing a job. NVIDIA experts share top tips for students pursuing AI careers Recent data from Inside Higher Ed shows that over 60% of students say t...

CodeRabbit now available on Visual Studio Code

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 by Richard Harris

CodeRabbit is now available on the popular Visual Studio Code editor. The integration brings CodeRabbit’s AI code reviews directly into Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code at the earliest stages of software development—inside the code editor itself - at no cost to the developers. This new support enhances CodeRabbit’s multi-layered review approach: contin...