Google Local Home SDK Live as a Developer Preview

Announced at Google I/O 2019, the new Local Home SDK aims to make it easier for developers to connect their home devices to Google Assistant and improve their responsiveness by running their actions locally. It is now available as a developer preview.

Scade Aims to Enable Android App Development Using Swift

Cross Platform Swift provides the foundation for cross-platform iOS and Android app development using Swift. Its 2019 roadmap focuses on achieving feature completeness, improving productivity and usability, and enhancing communication with the Swift development community.

Facebook Hermes May Significantly Reduce Boot-Time and Memory Usage in Android React Native Apps

Recently open-sourced by Facebook, JavaScript Engine Hermes aims to improve the performance of React Native Apps on Android devices, especially focusing on startup performance, download size, and memory consumption. Facebook claims are backed by initial benchmarking on Microsoft Office and Mattermost, an open source alternative to Slack.

Google Open-Sources Real-Time Hand Tracking for Android and iOS

Google has open-sourced a new component for its MediaPipe framework aimed to bring real-time hand detection and tracking to mobile devices.

Android Studio 3.5 Aims to Be Faster and More Memory-Efficient

Coming at the end of an eight-month development cycle, Project Marble, the latest release of Android Studio, refrains from adding new major features and opts instead for improving performance and memory efficiency.