‘Three in five developers experience unhealthy work-life balance’
A survey by OutSystems suggests that three in five EMEA developers experience an unhealthy work-life balance.
OutSystems develops a low-code platform for application development. The organization recently interviewed more than 800 developers for a work satisfaction survey. Work-life balance prov... Read more
Devs urge Apple to improve ‘nightmarish’ App Store review process
The approval process of Apple's App Store leaves many developers in the dark about how and why their apps and updates are reviewed and disapproved. Some consider quitting iOS development as a result.
Jake Nelson, a London-based developer, uploaded a regular update to Apple's App Store in Januar... Read more
Google to expand alternative payment options for Play Store
Google announced an expansion of its Play Store payment program, which allows users to select different payment systems for in-app purchases. The changes will deploy to India, Australia, Indonesia, Japan and the European Economic Area (EEA).
Google invited all non-gaming developers worldwide to ... Read more
CircleCI Visual Configuration Editor allows teams to visualize and streamline complex workflows
CircleCI announced the availability of CircleCI Visual Configuration Editor, a comprehensive open-source project that is meant for configuration editing.
Circle Internet Services – a popular DevOps platform – introduced its new ‘drag-and-drop’ configuration tool known as Visual Configura... Read more
Google releases Android 13, Pixel devices get dibs
Google launched Android 13 and released the source code to the Android Open Source Project for developers.
Android 13 is chock-full of new features and apps that Google's Android team has been working on for months. They're intended to improve user privacy and security, productivity, develope... Read more
GitHub proposal for Sigstore adoption faces backlash from developers
Developers object to GitHub's suggestion to use Sigstore to enhance network security by connecting npm packages to their inputs.
GitHub, which runs the npm package management system, is offering to incorporate new security features to npm because npm is regularly used by many JavaScript and Typ... Read more
Unity Software rejects multibillion-euro acquisition by AppLovin
Unity Software rejected a €17.2 billion acquisition bid from AppLovin. The software developer is pursuing the merger of ironSource, one of AppLovin's competitors.
Unity develops an engine for game developers. The software allows developers to produce video games without having to program comp... Read more
EU antitrust regulators question developers on Google app payments
EU antitrust inspectors questioned app developers on the impact of Google's Play Store policies. Earlier this year, the tech giant threatened to ban apps that use alternative payment methods instead of its proprietary system. Two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that EU antitrust inspe... Read more
Amazon launches AWS Skill Builder training subscriptions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) expanded its AWS Skill Builder training service with premium subscriptions for people and organizations wanting to expand their cloud services expertise
Amazon Web Services Skill Builder, a web-based learning facility with numerous free cloud technology courses, now fea... Read more
GitHub Projects integrates planning into project execution
GitHub made GitHub Projects generally available. This tool makes it possible to integrate project planning directly into the workflows of development teams.
GitHub Projects was built on GitHub Issues and should integrate planning directly into the workflows of development teams in GitHub environ... Read more