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Apple released the public betas for its next generation of software on the iPhone, Mac, iPad and Apple Watch on Monday. You can now test out iOS 18 and many…

Apple’s public betas for iOS 18 are here to test out

Crowdaa is an app that allows non-developers to easily create and release apps on the mobile store. 

App developer Crowdaa raises €1.2M and plans a US expansion

Reddit — now a publicly-traded company with more scrutiny on revenue growth — is putting a big focus on boosting its international audience, starting with francophones. In their first-ever earnings…

Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI

With RevenueCat Billing, essentially a web SDK, developers can accept subscription payments from any website.

RevenueCat raises $12M Series C as it expands its subscription management to the web

Code Assist will be available through plug-ins for popular editors like VS Code and JetBrains.

Google launches Code Assist, its latest challenger to GitHub’s Copilot

After opening its developer API to select companies for testing in March, Meta’s Twitter/X competitor Threads is now introducing developer documentation and a sign-up sheet for interested parties ahead of…

Meta’s X competitor Threads invites developers to sign up for API access, publishes docs

To comply with the new European law, Apple is introducing APIs and frameworks that allow developers to distribute apps independently of the App Store.

The AltStore, an alternative app store coming to the EU, will offer Patreon-backed apps

Adobe today announced Firefly Services, a set of more than 20 new generative and creative APIs, tools and services. Firefly Services makes some of the company’s AI-powered features from its…

Adobe’s Firefly Services makes over 20 new generative and creative APIs available to developers

With the Vision Pro finally available, many consumers are curious about Apple’s AR/VR headset and the apps that come with it. While some are from companies you recognize — Disney+,…

Apple’s Vision Pro is here: These are some of the most exciting indie apps and games

Social network X (formerly Twitter) launched new top-up packs for its developer API program on Tuesday. These paid upgrades will allow developers to fetch roughly 10,000 posts for $100 if…

X launches top-up packs for its developer API

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Blockchain startup Sei Labs creates an interesting solution to make Ethereum faster

Sei Labs, a startup co-founded by a former Robinhood engineer and a former VC from Coatue, has launched a new open sourced project that offers a novel and exciting approach to make Ethereum faster and less expensive for developers. On Wednesday, Sei launched The Parallel Stack, a public good project…

Blockchain startup Sei Labs creates an interesting solution to make Ethereum faster

Investors know that most startups fail, but something that may be less understood is how few mobile apps actually make money. According to a new analysis of the subscription app…

Most subscription mobile apps don’t make money, new report shows

Decentralized Twitter/X rival Bluesky is adding to its ranks by scooping up a member of its developer community. London-based software engineer Samuel Newman, who built the well-received third-party Bluesky client…

Bluesky scoops up the developer of popular third-party app, Graysky

Would-be Twitter/X rival Bluesky is looking to more directly invest in its developer community in order to foster growth. The company last week announced “AT Protocol Grants,” a new program…

Bluesky is funding developer projects to give its Twitter/X alternative a boost

No, Apple’s new and controversial “Core Technology Fee” isn’t going away for EU app developers who opt into the iPhone maker’s new business terms designed to comply with the region’s…

Apple revises its DMA rules after pressure, but keeps the Core Technology Fee intact

Meta-owned social network Threads said today that it will make its API broadly available to developers by June. Engineer Jesse Chen posted that the company has been building the API…

Threads says it will make its API broadly available by June

The CEO of meditation app Insight Timer, Christopher Plowman, is frustrated. He doesn’t think the teachers who leverage his app’s marketplace to reach their students should have to share 30%…

In a reversal, Apple is demanding 30% of the donations to meditation app Insight Timer’s teachers

When the large cloud providers have excess compute capacity, they tend to discount it through programs like AWS’s and Azure’s spot instances. Any time a server idles, it isn’t making…

NodeShift wants to challenge the hyperscalers with its decentralized cloud

After Apple confirmed yesterday it’s breaking web apps for customers in the EU due to its compliance with the EU regulation the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Epic Games CEO Tim…

Epic Games CEO suggests Apple broke iPhone web apps in the EU for anticompetitive reasons

Well, it turns out it’s not a bug that broke iPhone web apps, also known as progressive web apps (PWAs), in the EU. Following developer complaints and press reports about…

Apple confirms it’s breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose

Google is expanding the range of Gemini large language models it is making available to developers on its Vertex AI platform today. Gemini 1.0 Pro (which was still known as…

Google makes more Gemini models available to developers

Mark Zuckerberg may be laughing off the competition in the AR/VR headset market, but Apple’s Vision Pro is gaining traction — with developers, at least. On Tuesday, Apple senior vice…

Apple’s Vision Pro now has over 1,000 apps specifically designed for the new device

Apple’s Vision Pro offers consumers a new way to interact with apps via spatial computing, but it also offers app developers a way to generate revenue without subscriptions. According to…

Over half of Vision Pro-only apps are paid downloads, far more than wider iOS App Store

The recent surprise announcement that Meta will soon be shutting down its Facebook Groups API is throwing some businesses and social media marketers into disarray. On January 23, Meta announced…

Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups, leaving developers and customers in disarray

The pace is picking up for the Apple Vison Pro apps ahead of the spatial computing device’s Friday launch as developers ready their apps for the new platform. While just…

Apple Vision Pro to launch with over 600 apps and games optimized for the new headset

Apple last week announced new rules for EU app developers to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). After being designated as a “gatekeeper,” the EU required Apple to make…

Reading the fine print of Apple’s DMA rules: 25 things app developers need to know

Startup p0 is named after catastrophic events that can cause a platform to crash, leading to potential security breaches and loss of customer trust in businesses. Those are the problems…

p0 uses LLMs to save enterprises from code catastrophes

Apple is moving to make the App Store more appealing to developers before the upcoming deadline to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which offers developers the ability…

Looking to retain App Store developers ahead of the DMA, Apple begins ‘contingent pricing’ pilot

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is none too pleased with Apple’s new App Store rules, dubbing them once again a case of “malicious compliance” and filled with “junk fees.” As…

Epic Games CEO calls out Apple’s DMA rules as ‘malicious compliance’ and full of ‘junk fees’

Last summer, Google launched Project IDX, its experimental web-based full-stack development environment with built-in support for Codey (Google’s version of GitHub Copilot) and Flutter (Google’s cross-platform development framework). With today’s…

Google extends its Project IDX development environment with built-in iOS and Android emulators