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Windows App Development CLI Updated with .NET Project Support, More

Windows App Development CLI Updated with .NET Project Support, More

Microsoft updated its Windows App Development CLI (winapp) to version 0.2 and added some eagerly…

WinUIpad: AI to the Rescue
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WinUIpad: AI to the Rescue ⭐

With progress slowing to a crawl, I researched Windows App SDK alternatives and then started…

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Google Ships Android 17 Beta 2

Tied no doubt to today's AppFunctions announcement, Google has also delivered Android 17 Beta 2…

Google Outlines How AI Agents Will Interact with Android Apps

Google Outlines How AI Agents Will Interact with Android Apps

Google is working to give Android apps semantic (programmatic) capabilities so that they can be…

Google I/O 2026 Set For May 19-20

Google I/O 2026 Set For May 19-20

Google today announced that its annual I/O technical conference will be held May 19-20, 2026…

Google Releases Android 17 Beta 1

Google Releases Android 17 Beta 1

Google announced Android 17 Beta 1 two days ago, but the release is finally ready…

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Google Announces Android 17 Beta 1

Google will soon release the first beta of Android 17, marking a fundamental shift in…

Microsoft Releases .NET 11 Preview 1

Microsoft Releases .NET 11 Preview 1

The first .NET 11 preview release adds enhancements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#,…

Apple is Bringing Agentic Coding Assistance to Xcode

Apple is Bringing Agentic Coding Assistance to Xcode

The next version of the Xcode developer environment will support agentic coding assistance through integration…

Microsoft Announces a Command Line Utility for Windows App Developers

Microsoft Announces a Command Line Utility for Windows App Developers

Microsoft today announced the release of the Windows App Development CLI (winapp) in public preview.

Microsoft to Replace All C/C++ Code With Rust by 2030

Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all…

WinUIpad: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Sideways
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WinUIpad: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Sideways ⭐

An AI-generated Petzold-style Notepad, a new Windows App SDK tutorial, a title bar experiment, and…

Android Studio Gets a Big Gemini 3 Update

Android Studio Gets a Big Gemini 3 Update

The Otter 2 Feature Drop is the final stable release of Android Studio in 2025,…

WinUIpad: Code Cleanup, "Needs to Be Saved" Indicator, More
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WinUIpad: Code Cleanup, “Needs to Be Saved” Indicator, More ⭐

In this update, a little code cleanup, a "Need to be Saved" indicator, and new…

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WinUIpad: Word Count, Text Cursor Position, App Shutdown ⭐

Another few weeks with the Windows App SDK and WinUI 3 is another few weeks…

OpenAI GPT-5.1-Codex-Max Coding Model Arrives With Better Support for Windows

OpenAI GPT-5.1-Codex-Max Coding Model Arrives With Better Support for Windows

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is OpenAI’s latest frontier agentic coding model, and it’s faster and more intelligent and…

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