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The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with
A quiet but game-changing shift is underway in mobile development. Thanks to a new update, developers may soon find it dramatically simpler to bring iOS apps
OpenAI’s Sora 2 has emerged as the hottest generative video tool around. The head of the team behind it now teases that a Sora Android app is “actually coming soon.” We also learn about new character cameo tools and editing abilities in the works.
That makes the Android launch more than 4x the size of the iOS launch, with 327% more installs (360,000) — but the firm notes that's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
OpenAI’s Sora AI video generator lands on Android, bringing realistic, sound-rich video creation to more users in select global markets.
OpenAI’s new Sora AI video social app is now officially available on Android after a spectacular debut on iOS several weeks ago. Its debit on iOS saw over a million downloads within its first five days on the App Store back in September. Sora climbed the charts faster than the original ChatGPT mobile app, and could do the same on Google Play.
Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010. It's a programming language that was aimed at developing iPhone apps, but in 2015, Apple made it open source.