Jetpack Compose Embraces Adaptive UIs with Compose Material 3 Adaptive

Compose Material 3 Adaptive, a library meant to create adaptive UIs able to adapt themselves automatically according to the current window size or device orientation, has reached 1.0 and is ready to be used in production apps.

Swift Testing is a New Framework from Apple to Modernize Testing for Swift Across Platforms

While XCTest remains the preferred way to create tests in Xcode, the new Swift Testing framework attempts to introduce an expressive and intuitive API for the definition of tests that applies to all platform where Swift is supported. The framework also enables parallelizing, categorizing and associating tests with bugs.

Swift 6 Officially Available

The Swift team has officially announced the availability of Swift 6, a new major version of Apple open-source language with focus on low-level and embedded programming, concurrent code safety, new cross-platforms APIs, and extended Linux and Windows support.

Android 15 Brings Desktop-like Windowing UX on Tablets

The latest Beta 2 for the upcoming Android 15 release introduces desktop windowing for tablets as a developer preview. The new feature makes it possible to manage “freeform windows” that users can create to display multiple apps and resize or move around similarly to what they would do on a desktop computer.

Compiler Explorer Provides Insights Into Low-Level Android App Optimization

Android engineers at Google added support for the Java and Kotlin programming languages to Compiler Explorer, an open source tool aimed at exploring how compilers work by compiling code in real-time. Using Compiler Explorer, Android engineers can optimize the performance of their apps by observing how the compiler works under the hood instead of using a set of pre-defined best practices.