Looking for a complete summary of this week in developer news? You’ve found it. The entire tech world was focused on Cupertino for Apple’s WWDC 2025, but that was far from the only story. From a critical zero-day vulnerability and major new AI platform announcements to foundational shifts in core Linux tools, it’s been a packed week.

Looking for the top developer news this week? You’ve come to the right place. While the industry holds its breath for Apple’s upcoming developer conference, major updates in AI tooling, critical security alerts, and a flood of significant platform releases made for a busy week.

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was a whirlwind of innovation this year. Artificial intelligence stole the show, with major upgrades announced for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Apple Watch, and even Apple TV. But fear not developers – there’s a plethora of exciting updates waiting for you as well! Buckle up for exciting updates to Xcode and Swift, powerful new APIs, and a bunch of other goodies that will make you say, “wow!” 

Google announces new hardware and “Actions on Google” platform, Apple and Deloitte team-up for enterprise solutions and HTC’s Viveport VR app store goes live globally.

In this edition Google is reportedly planning hybrid devices that run both Android and Chrome, game developers boycott Oculus due to its founder’s support for Donald Trump and Google takes its Daydream SDK out of beta.

In this week’s news roundup. In this edition, Blackstorm raises $33.5m for a ‘post-app store”, Razer launches a new fund for VR and gaming start-ups and Kony releases a new survey on the challenges of wearable development.

In this week’s news roundup, Google cancels its modular smartphone project, Apple plans to delete abandoned apps from the App Store and Epic releases a new version of Unreal Engine 4. Read on for the full news rundown.

Our 7th Developer Economics survey broke all records again, reaching more than 10,000 app developers from 137 different countries. The full report with the survey findings has just been published and is available for free download! The view of the app economy that they collectively provide is one of consolidation. Developers are focusing their attention […]

On desktop computers web apps have come to dominate many application categories. They are easier to develop and deploy across multiple platforms and it’s possible to iterate much faster. A very large number of developers would like to be able to apply the same technologies and techniques on mobile devices but very few are able to do so successfully, particularly for mass market consumer apps. One of the most important reasons for this is performance. Resolving this issue is much more about politics than technology.