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Android is officially Compose-first. Your View-based app is now legacy code.
At Google I/O 2026, Google made Jetpack Compose the official way to build Android UI and moved the View toolkit into maintenance mode. For the many production apps still built on Views, that turns a long-running question into a real decision. Here is how mobile teams should respond, without rewriting everything at once.
Apple and Google just made phones less sticky. Mobile teams need a new playbook.
iOS 26.5 shipped this week with wireless Transfer to Android, RCS end-to-end encryption, and a new App Store subscription tier. Hours later, Google's Android Show I/O Edition 2026 confirmed the cooperation runs both ways. Platform lock-in just got weaker, and that changes how mobile teams should think about retention and pricing.
Security Roundup: Microsoft Patches Zero-Day, Google Disrupts Proxy Network
Microsoft fixed an actively exploited Office vulnerability while Google took down a massive proxy network used by 550+ threat groups. WhatsApp also rolled out new protection against sophisticated attacks.