Mobile.
Notes about mobile development — NativeScript, React Native, Capacitor, iPad Pro hardware, Surface Pro X, the changing shape of cross-platform development. The studio has shipped on NativeScript (Trax), Capacitor (most current mobile work), and natively where the brief required.
- 16 Sept 2026→
April is a build deadline.
From April 2027, every app uploaded to App Store Connect for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Vision Pro or Apple Watch has to be built with the 27 generation SDK. Nothing live gets pulled. But the next fix to any app nobody has opened in two years now starts with a toolchain upgrade, and that is a much cheaper job in October than on the day something breaks.
- 11 Sept 2026→
Siri has a daily allowance now.
iOS 27 reaches the public on Monday, and Apple's own support page puts daily usage limits on Siri AI, the cloud image tools, and any developer app calling Apple Foundation Models in Private Cloud Compute. Free AI in the operating system now has a meter on it, and anything built on top of it has to know what happens when the meter runs out.
- 24 Aug 2026→
The phone grew a moving part.
Honor put a four-axis titanium gimbal on the back of a phone and shipped it at RMB 9,999. For a studio that maintains hardware in public spaces, the interesting number is not the megapixels. It is the duty cycle of a motor in something people drop.
- 2 Dec 2025→
NativeScript vs React Native, revisited: where we landed.
Seven years on from our 2018 comparison, the landscape's moved. Capacitor showed up. React Native shipped a new architecture. NativeScript is quieter but alive. Here's the current call.
- 26 Apr 2018→
React Native vs NativeScript: shipping cross-platform in 2018.
Two ways to write one app for iOS and Android. We've shipped real production work in both. Here's the head-to-head comparison, the decision tree we apply on every brief, and the real-project case study where we picked NativeScript and it paid off.
- 2 Mar 2018→
ARKit and the AR moment that almost arrived.
Apple shipped ARKit with iOS 11. Google shipped ARCore alongside. Suddenly there are hundreds of millions of AR-capable phones. The question every brand is asking is 'what should we do with it?'. The honest answer, after six months of testing: less than they think.
- 18 Jul 2017→
Progressive Web Apps are real now.
Service workers, offline-first, installable web apps, push notifications. We've been quietly shipping PWAs in production for six months — here's what works, what doesn't, what we'd tell a client today, and where we think the platform is heading.