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> We built our logic in Rust, so that compiles cross platform. It's really just the UI layer that is per platform. Having never created a mobile app, how's that work exactly?
Check out tauri.
My perspective: I've been supporting and working with Mac and iOS developers since the last century, when Apple moved me from Chicago to be an evangelist at Apple HQ in Cupertino. I know as much as anyone about AI-assisted app development, as the creator/maintainer of the free/open source Axiom ( https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/ ) for iOS/macOS devs. It's not as dire as you might think. To software developers,…
I don't think i fear so much for competing on quality vs a vibe coder, I think two orders of magnitude is underselling the potential snowball effect of a vibe coder attempting to craft up a semi complex project. The sooner they start to pile on complexity, the quicker it is that the 2x gap widens. The fear for me comes with that initial creation, which is a fear i have across a large amount of things for AI "disrupti…
So a bit different from the other comments. We're a wearable company which of course pairs with an app. We built iOS first because that's what most of our users have, though the team is mostly on Android. We built our logic in Rust, so that compiles cross platform. It's really just the UI layer that is per platform. Though I had initially written our first demo in React-Native, the team wanted to go with native UI. L…
At Google IO 2026 there little discussion of core improvements to Android as a platform. It was mostly AI related, nothing about Gabeldorsche etc, which I find more interesting.
My perspective: I've been supporting and working with Mac and iOS developers since the last century, when Apple moved me from Chicago to be an evangelist at Apple HQ in Cupertino. I know as much as anyone about AI-assisted app development, as the creator/maintainer of the free/open source Axiom ( https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/ ) for iOS/macOS devs. It's not as dire as you might think. To software developers,…
But those layers are pretty much deterministic. I think that's the qualitative difference.
I had a go at building both a Mac and iOS dictation app the other day (dictator.robgough.net) thinking that with Claude's input, this probably wouldn't work... but it was a real problem I had, and I wanted to see how far we could get. Best way to learn the tools, right? I'd already spent the day playing with alternative apps that didn't quite do what I wanted. The app itself is fairly straightforward, but it included…
Looks nice. Funny, I also made a dictation app using claude ... yet just for iOS. https://kaikunze.de/aimemo/
Just stacking them together as little building blocks has been amazing.
Great app to hopefully let more people realize that it's not all just huge LLMs that have to run somewhere else!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think i fear so much for competing on quality vs a vibe coder, I think two orders of magnitude is underselling the potential snowball effect of a vibe coder attempting to craft up a semi complex project. The sooner they start to pile on complexity, the quicker it is that the 2x gap widens. The fear for me comes with that initial creation, which is a fear i have across a large amount of things for AI "disrupti…
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So a bit different from the other comments. We're a wearable company which of course pairs with an app. We built iOS first because that's what most of our users have, though the team is mostly on Android. We built our logic in Rust, so that compiles cross platform. It's really just the UI layer that is per platform. Though I had initially written our first demo in React-Native, the team wanted to go with native UI. L…
> We built our logic in Rust, so that compiles cross platform. It's really just the UI layer that is per platform. Having never created a mobile app, how's that work exactly?
The wrapper around these is very lean, FFI-based[1], it's abstracted to a library so Android devs never need to know there's rust/codegen involved.
We then define a light Kotlin-based wrapper around the protobuf-generated API[2]. This is a candidate to move to Kotlin multiplatform in the near future (mostly for test speed improvements).
[0] https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/proto
[1] https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android-Backend/blob/a0428...
[2] https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/blob/68192585a7ae4...
I suspect AI is going to result in the bottom falling out of the market for simple apps. React made simple webapps a case of just gluing dependencies together and much more approachable to a generalist developer than the previous generation of web development was. But native apps weren’t affected in the same way. With AI I suspect we’ll see a lot of simple apps, the ones that really aren’t doing much other than CRUD…