How AI Will Change Mobile Development
Starts:
25. Juni 2025 um 11:45:00
Ends:
25. Juni 2025 um 12:25:00
Status:
Accepted
AI coding tools have had some of the most wild hype to ever emerge from Silicon Valley, which is no small feat. From the native mobile world, this has all seemed very distant, and easy to pass off as just hype.
But, native mobile is mostly locked to specific IDEs, largely untouched by these tools until recently. There is a lot of hype, but there is a lot of reality, and it goes way beyond chat and verbose auto-complete.
Native mobile is also unique, with separate apps doing basically the same things. That makes native mobile both largely overlooked, and uniquely positioned to benefit from these tools.
Technical topics we'll cover:
* The state of models today, and where they might go in the future
* Agent tools
* What you can do with AI beyond "it helps write tests"
* The rapid rise of open-source tools directly competing with the commercial "household names"
Moblie topics:
* AI is amazing at "porting code". Making Swift from Kotlin and vice-versa
* How that might impact native dev
* How that might change the cross-platform vs native calculus
* AI tools enable productive dev in unfamiliar languages and ecosystems (and how that should impact "platform silos")
We've been integrating AI tools at all levels of work, and recently completed an iOS to Android port, mostly automated, in a fraction of the time the client estimated the project to take.
Lots of hype, but lots of real utility. Far from replacing developers, developers can get the most out of them. As time goes on, they will be as essential as IDEs and source control. And it's all coming to the mobile ecosystem very soon.