ART Cloud Profiling to Improve Android App Performance

First introduced in Android Pie, ART optimizing profiles are a feature that leverages data sent to Play Cloud to optimize an app startup time on install or update. Data disclosed by Google show apps start 15% faster on average, with special cases reaching a 30% improvement.

HiveMQ Goes Open Source, Brings MQTT and Kafka Together

Recently announced by HiveMQ, HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka aims to integrate Kafka and MQTT to enable real-time streaming for IoT applications.

Yelp Bento Aims to Simplify Modularized UI Development on Android

Yelp has open-sourced Bento, a framework to build modularized user interface on Android by combining different, reusable components into a single screen.

Flutter 1.5 Goes Multi-Platform, Includes Web Support

Announced as a technical preview at the latest Google I/O 2019 event, Flutter 1.5 aims to make it possible to create native applications for multiple platforms, including new form-factor devices, the Desktop, and the Web.

Capacitor 1.0 Aims to Improve the Creation of Hybrid, Web, and Native Apps

Capacitor, Ionic’s new native API container aimed at creating iOS, Android, and Web apps using JavaScript, hit version 1.0. It attempts to bring a new take on how to build cross-platform apps that access native features.