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Gemini Pro: Google empowers developers with advanced AI capabilities

Ryan Daws — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:29:58 +0000

Google has announced the availability of its AI model Gemini Pro for developers and enterprises to craft solutions for their specific needs. This move is accompanied by a commitment to ongoing refinement based on user feedback. Gemini comes in three distinctive sizes: Ultra, Pro, and Nano. The Nano version has already been integrated into Android... Read more »

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Apple opens ‘Activities’ sign-ups for WWDC 2023

Ryan Daws — Wed, 31 May 2023 07:55:00 +0000

Apple has opened sign-ups for ‘Activities’ which enable remote developers to actively participate in this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) festivities. Apple introduced WWDC Digital Lounges in 2021, providing developers with the opportunity to engage in online discussions with Apple engineers and designers. This year, the experience returns for WWDC23, renamed simply as Activities. Developers... Read more »

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Apple releases Xcode 14.3 with all the latest SDKs

Ryan Daws — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:29:11 +0000

Apple has released Xcode 14.3 to developers, which includes the latest SDKs for iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4, tvOS 16.4, watchOS 9.4, and macOS Ventura 13.3. Xcode enables developers to create apps for Apple platforms such as iOS, macOS, and watchOS. This update allows developers to create apps that are fully compatible with the latest operating... Read more »

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Copilot X heralds a new era of AI-powered coding

Ryan Daws — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:58:35 +0000

GitHub has unveiled Copilot X, an upgraded version of its AI-powered coding assistance tool. Copilot X adopts OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 model and now features chat and voice interfaces, support for pull requests, command-line support, and can generate answer questions from documentation: Unlike traditional coding assistance tools that rely on simple code templates or pre-defined snippets,... Read more »

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Go re-enters TIOBE’s top 10 programming languages

Ryan Daws — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:32:31 +0000

Programming language Go appears to be making a resurgence as it re-enters TIOBE’s top 10 list. TIOBE creates its programming language popularity list using search data across 25 different engines. The methodology has been regularly criticised but suffices as a rough guide of the interest in each language. Go was created by Google and often... Read more »

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Xcode 14 beta practically confirms iPhone 14 Pro will get an AOD

Ryan Daws — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:20:53 +0000

The latest beta of Xcode 14 all but confirms that an always-on display (AOD) will arrive with the iPhone 14 Pro lineup. AODs have featured on numerous Android devices since around 2016. Over in the Apple garden, the only device to feature an AOD is the Apple Watch (Series 5+) Rather than have to fully... Read more »

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Xcode Cloud is now available to all developers

Ryan Daws — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:23:32 +0000

Apple has announced that Xcode Cloud is now available to all developers. Xcode Cloud was first announced during WWDC 2021. Over the past year, it’s gradually been rolling out in beta to lucky developers. A year (and a WWDC) later, Xcode Cloud is leaving beta. Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service that’s... Read more »

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Apps will soon need to be submitted to the App Store using Xcode 13

Ryan Daws — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:27:23 +0000

Apple has reminded developers that apps will soon need to be submitted to the App Store using Xcode 13. From 25 April 2022, Apple will only accept the submission of apps that are built using the latest version of its IDE. “iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS apps submitted to the App Store must be built with... Read more »

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Swift Playgrounds 4.0 removes the need for a Mac to publish apps

Ryan Daws — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 12:27:38 +0000

Apple has released Swift Playgrounds 4.0, enabling users to build and submit their apps solely using an iPad. Swift Playgrounds was initially released in 2016 as an educational tool and development environment for Apple’s latest native programming language, which was released a couple of years prior. The iPad version of Swift Playgrounds arrived first before... Read more »

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‘Massive’ Swift 5.5 release fixes ‘pyramid of doom’ and more

Ryan Daws — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 11:13:20 +0000

Apple has debuted Swift 5.5, a “massive” release that fixes its “pyramid of doom” issue among introducing other major changes. An issue with how Swift previously handled concurrency meant that a “pyramid of doom” of difficult-to-follow nested calls would occur when a developer wrote several asynchronous operations. Swift language inventor Chris Lattner had previously acknowledged... Read more »

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