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.