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Welcome to the 174th edition of MobilePro! This week’s issue dives into major leaps in AI, mobile platforms, and developer productivity—from iOS’s dramatic redesign to autonomous AI agents transforming the software lifecycle:

📱 iOS 26 redefines the iPhone: Apple is set to unveil iOS 26 with a sweeping redesign, AI enhancements, and cross-device interface unity at WWDC 2025.
📶 Azure App Service Premium v4 goes public preview: Microsoft launches its fastest, most scalable App Service plan yet—with major TCO benefits.
🧩 Apple to unify OS versioning: Apple may align all OS versions (iOS, macOS, etc.) to annual numbers like “26”, bringing consistency across the ecosystem.
💬 MVI’s misunderstood past and modern Android role: Explore the full history and modern form of the Model-View-Intent pattern in Android development.
🎨 Material 3 makes motion expressive: Google’s latest Material Design update brings emotional, physics-driven animations to Jetpack Compose for more engaging UIs.
🖌️ Photoshop touches down on Android: Adobe launches the beta of Photoshop for Android, bringing powerful AI tools and core editing features to mobiles.

And in What’s Happening in AI?—Perplexity unveils a Lab that builds whole apps from your prompts, and we ask: will AI leave some developers behind? Stick around for this week’s Developer Tip to learn about Apple's iOS App Store pre-order system and the Did You Know? section to know how an iOS app exposed sensitive user data!

Let’s dive in!

P.S.: If you have any suggestions or feedback, or would like us to feature your project on a particular subject, please write to us. Just respond to this email!

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📱 What's Happening in Mobile Development?

If there’s any major news in the world of mobile app dev in the last week, MobilePro has you covered.

iOS

iOS 26: All the new iPhone features we’re expecting next week: Apple is set to unveil iOS 26 at WWDC 2025, featuring a major redesign. This is the biggest update since iOS 7—with a unified interface across Apple devices, along with enhanced AI capabilities under Apple Intelligence 2.0, new app updates including a dedicated Games app, and various usability improvements like charging estimates, live translation, and eSIM transfer to Android.
Apple is reportedly going to rename all of its operating systems: Apple will reportedly rename all its operating systems to align with the upcoming year—e.g., iOS 26 instead of iOS 19—to standardize version numbers across platforms, with the change set to be announced at WWDC on June 9th.

Android

Gmail gets a fresh look with Material 3 Expressive redesign: Google has begun rolling out a Material 3 Expressive redesign for Gmail, featuring vibrant colors, rounded cards, and updated animations. The update, part of Android 16's visual refresh, is gradually being enabled via a server-side switch in Gmail app version 2025.05.11.
Adobe launches Photoshop beta for Android with AI-powered editing tools: Adobe has officially released the beta version of Photoshop for Android devices. Available for free on the Google Play Store during the beta period, the app offers features such as layers, masks, and AI-driven tools like Generative Fill, powered by Adobe Firefly. Users can also access a library of free Adobe Stock assets and utilize tools like Object Select and Magic Wand for precise selections.

Microsoft

Azure App Service Premium v4 plan is now in public preview: Microsoft has launched the Azure App Service Premium v4 plan in public preview, offering improved performance (up to 50%), enhanced scalability, and lower total cost of ownership—making it ideal for modernizing high-demand applications across Windows and Linux platforms.
GitHub Universe 2025: Here’s what’s in store at this year’s developer wonderland: GitHub Universe 2025 will be held on October 28–29 in San Francisco, featuring hands-on sessions, AI-powered development insights, and community networking, with Super Early Bird passes now available at a $700 discount. Virtual attendance is free for those unable to join in person.

Other

Platform '24.2 is out: Pega Platform™ '24.2 introduces significant updates, including the removal of embedded third-party services (Elasticsearch, Kafka, Cassandra), mandatory Java 17 support, and enhanced Insights with autogenerated tables, editable data, and advanced security policies—while also expanding AI-driven low-code development, case management, and user experience capabilities.

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Curious about how to build buzz before your app launches? This article explores Apple's iOS App Store pre-order system, detailing how developers can set it up, manage pricing, update metadata, and use it to boost visibility and downloads on release day. You can check out the article here.

In case you have any tips to share with your fellow mobile developers, do reply to this mail and we’d be glad to feature you in a future edition of MobilePro.

🤖 What’s Happening in AI?

AI is evolving fast—are you keeping up? MobilePro brings you key discussions, trends, and expert takes in one place.

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Court documents reveal OpenAI is coming for your iPhone: Unsealed court documents reveal OpenAI's ambitious plan to evolve ChatGPT into a “super-assistant” poised to rival Siri—emphasizing deep personalization, cross-platform presence, and challenging tech gatekeepers by advocating for users to choose their default AI assistant.
Introducing Perplexity Labs: Perplexity has launched Perplexity Labs for Pro users—a powerful new mode that transforms ideas into complete projects like reports, spreadsheets, and web apps using advanced tools such as code execution, deep browsing, and asset generation. Labs complements the existing Research mode by handling more complex, multi-step tasks in 10+ minutes for deeper, actionable results.
Azure AI Search unveils agentic retrieval for smarter conversational AI: Microsoft has introduced agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search (public preview), a dynamic multi-turn query system that improves answer relevance by up to 40% over traditional RAG by autonomously planning and executing retrieval strategies using Azure OpenAI. It supports complex, context-aware queries with subquery planning, semantic reranking, and is designed for intelligent agents in enterprise use cases.
AI won’t replace developers, but it will leave some behind: AI won't replace developers but will widen the gap between teams that adapt and those that don't. Success will hinge on integrating AI responsibly across the software lifecycle, emphasizing quality, trust, and resilience over mere speed.
Factory ‘Droids’ AI agents tackle entire development lifecycle: Factory has introduced AI-powered “Droids” — full-fledged software development agents that go beyond coding to handle tasks like feature development from specs, codebase research, incident response, ticket management, and code reviews, all while integrating with common dev tools and maintaining organizational context. These agents aim to streamline the entire development lifecycle, signaling a potential shift in how developers collaborate with AI.

💭 What is the Mobile Community Talking About?

What are mobile app developers discussing? Do you have any concerns, advice, or tutorials to share?MobileProbrings them to you all in one place.

MVI: The Pattern’s Full History, Misconceptions, and Modern Android Form: This article explores the full history, misconceptions, and modern application of the MVI (Model-View-Intent) architectural pattern in Android development—clarifying its origins prior to Redux, debunking common myths, and advocating for a flexible, context-driven implementation over rigid dogma.
Less TODO, more done: The difference between coding agent and agent mode in GitHub Copilot: This article covers GitHub Copilot’s evolution into two AI agents: agent mode, a real-time assistant integrated into your editor, and coding agent, an asynchronous collaborator that tackles GitHub issues and delivers tested pull requests—streamlining development from ideation to deployment.
Android 16: Exploring the Next Evolution of Notifications: This article introduces Android 16’s new Notification.ProgressStyle, a customizable notification format designed for real-time progress updates in use cases like food delivery or navigation. It provides a step-by-step guide on implementing this style, showcasing features like segmented progress bars, tracker icons, and live state transitions within a notification.
Expressive Animations for Everyone: This article introduces Google's new Material 3 Expressive design update, which brings emotion and fluidity to UI with a new motion-physics system, and demonstrates how to implement dynamic, animated toggle buttons using Jetpack Compose to create a more engaging user experience.

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Mobile App Development Tutorial — **Excerpt from SwiftUI Cookbookby Juan C. Catalan**

The most basic building block of any application is text, which we use to provide or request information from a user. Some text requires special treatment, such as password fields, which must be masked for privacy reasons. In this excerpt from Juan C. Catalan’sSwiftUI Cookbook, you will implement different types of SwiftUI Text views. A Text view is used to display one or more lines of read-only text on the screen. ATextFieldview is used to display multiline editable text, and aSecureFieldview is used to request private information that should be masked, such as passwords.

Implementing SwiftUI Text views

You will implement multiple types of text-related views and modifiers. Each step in this excerpt applies minor changes to the view, so note the UI changes that occur after each step. Let's get started:

Replace the initialContentViewbody variable with our ownVStack. TheContentViewshould look like the following code:

struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
 VStack{
 Text("Hello World")
 }
 }
}

Add the.fontWeight(.medium)modifier to the text and observe the text weight change in the canvas preview:

Text("Hello World")
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 .fontWeight(.medium)

Add two state variables to theContentView.swiftfile:passwordandsomeText. Place the values below theContentViewstruct declaration. These variables will hold the content of the user's password andTextfieldinputs:

struct ContentView: View {
 @State private var password = "1234"
 @State private var someText = "initial text"
var body: some View {
...
}

Now, we will start adding more views to theVStack. Each view should be added immediately after the previous one. AddSecureFieldand a Text view to theVStack. The Text view displays the value entered inSecureField:

SecureField("Enter a password", text: $password)
 .padding()
Text("password entered: \(password)")
 .italic()
AddTextFieldand a Text view to display the value entered inTextField:
TextField("Enter some text", text: $someText)
 .padding()
Text(someText)
 .font(.largeTitle)
 .underline()

Now, let's add some other Text views with modifiers to the list:

Text("Changing text color and make it bold")
 .foregroundStyle(.blue)
 .bold()
Text("Use kerning to change space between characters in the text")
 .kerning(7)
 Text("Changing baseline offset")
 .baselineOffset(100)
 Text("Strikethrough")
 .strikethrough()
 Text("This is a multiline text implemented in
 SwiftUI. The trailing modifier was added
 to the text. This text also implements
 multiple modifiers")
 .background(.yellow)
 .multilineTextAlignment(.trailing)
 .lineSpacing(10)

Now is the moment to test the app. We can choose to run the app in a simulator or click the Play button in the canvas preview, which allows for interactivity. Play with the app and enter some text in theSecureFieldandTextField. Text entered in theSecureFieldwill be masked, while text in theTextFieldwill be shown.

***

There are plenty more such recipes, which you can read in SwiftUI Cookbook.

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A popular iOS app, Sleep Journey: Insomnia Helper, exposed sensitive data of over 25,000 users—including names, sleep habits, and even alcohol use—due to a misconfigured Firebase server, highlighting the critical need for secure backend practices in mobile development.

Sourced from App Developer Magazine.

👋 And that’s a wrap. We hope you enjoyed this edition of MobilePro. If you have any suggestions and feedback, or would just like to say hi to us, please write to us. Just respond to this email!

Cheers,

Runcil Rebello,

Editor-in-Chief, MobilePro