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.

Five 0-Day iOS Vulnerability Chains Have Been Exploited for Years

A collection of fourteen vulnerabilities affecting almost every iOS versions from iOS 10 to iOS 12 enabled a number of hacked Websites to gain control of their visitors’ devices and steal a wealth of private data aver at least two years, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) engineer Ian Beer wrote. These vulnerabilities are not new. What is new is the discovery of their active exploit in the wild.

Swift 5.1 Brings Module Stability, Opaque Return Types, Property Wrappers and More

While module stability is by far the most impactful new feature in Swift 5.1, the latest version of Apple’s language includes a number of new language constructs, such as property wrappers and opaque return types, and a number of standard library extensions.

Google Enables Continuous Testing Using the Android Emulator

The Android Emulator is the main tool Android developers use to test their apps. Google has just made integrating the Android Emulator within a continuous testing pipeline easier by open sourcing the Android Emulator Container Scripts and two related tools.