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What's new from Google I/O 2023 for developers: Key announcements

This years I/O can be easily summed up by just one phrase: “AI”. AI absolutely everywhere. Sundar Pichai started, mentioned numerous times and ended the Keynote by mentioning AI. Some of the main announcements around AI for developers included the general availablity of “Bard” supporting 20 programming languages and use of the “PaLM 2” based models with some like “Gecko” small enough to run on mobile devices.

Migrating your iOS projects and CI/CD to Apple Silicon M1 & M2 Macs

Apple Silicon processors have revolutionized the desktop and laptop CPU landscape. The transition from Intel’s x86_64 architecture to Apple’s arm64 was smooth for consumers thanks to the Rosetta 2 emulator. This emulator enables the translation of x86_64 instructions to arm64 with minimal performance degradation.

Writing your back end in Dart

In this blog post, we will explore the process of building a back end using only Dart. With the numerous options available for achieving this, it’s normal to feel overwhelmed or unsure of where to begin. Thus, this post is primarily directed at Flutter developers who are considering Dart for their back end for its various benefits, which we will discuss later on.

Clean architecture explored

It’s your first day at an exciting company, and everything’s going great. It’s time to familiarize yourself with the codebase. So you fork it from GitHub, and lo and behold, your warm smile is replaced with utter confusion. The codebase is filled with spaghetti code. Simply, it’s chaotic. We developers are often faced with scenarios like this.

Xcode 14.3 Requires macOS Ventura. What does this mean for you and your Codemagic projects?

The latest version of Xcode 14.3 requires you to update your Mac to run macOS Ventura 13.0 or later. At the time of writing this article, Codemagic is already equipped with the most recent Xcode 14.3 Beta 3 and macOS Ventura 13.2.1, ensuring you the latest developement environment! Apple has already released three betas of Xcode 14.3, and the latest Xcode includes Swift 5.8 and SDKs for iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4, tvOS 16.4, watchOS 9.4, and macOS Ventura 13.3.