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android doze kills your background tasks and nobody explains why properly been building a react native app that schedules stuff to run later. worked fine every time i tested it. shipped it, and it started missing schedules. only when the phone had been sitting idle for a while. never on my desk. took me way too long to figure out what was going on so writing it up here. what happens you schedule something for 1am. check logs next morning: 01:00:00 alarm fired 01:00:02 connected (while back grounded, 2 seconds) 01:18:xx the actual send ran the connection came up fine. in 2 seconds. while the phone was back grounded. but the code that was supposed to do something with that connection ran 18 minutes later when something else woke the phone up. why doze mode freezes javascript timers. setTimeout, setInterval, any polling loop on the js thread-all frozen. but native events (connection callbacks, lifecycle events, native module bridges) keep firing. i had a setInterval checking "are we connected yet" every second. doze froze that loop. the connection came up, nobody noticed for 18 minutes because the thing checking for it was asleep. the phone could do the work. my code just couldn't tell. stuff i tried that didn't fix it foreground service — keeps the process alive but doesn't unfreeze js timers. not the problem. more setTimeout/setInterval variations, literally the thing causing it. spent two days making the problem worse. HeadlessJS dropped in without changes compiled, never ran on newer RN. lost a few hours there. the actual fix move everything off timers. put your work directly in the event handler. instead of polling to check if you're connected: js // this is frozen by doze. don't. setInterval (() => { if ( isReady ()) doWork () }, 1000 ) do this : jsconnection . on ( ' status ' , ( state ) => { if ( state === ' connected ' ) { doWork ( job ) } }) native events survive doze. timers don't. that's the whole thing. for waking up at the right time — native AlarmManager

From the day it was announced, on June 16th, 2025, the Trump phone sounded ridiculous. The T1 Phone 8002 (gold version), as it was officially called, was a combination of contradictory specs, product images that were clearly not photographs of a real phone, and the worrying requirement of a $100 deposit to secure a preorder […]

On paper, the Honor Magic V6 sounds like a tremendous leap forward for foldable phones: It's the thinnest one yet, with the biggest battery, and the best water-resistance ever. In practice, only the bigger battery feels like a meaningful improvement. The other upgrades are only fractionally superior to what came before. This isn't entirely Honor's […]

Vercel Labs recently open-sourced zero-native, a cross-platform framework for native desktop applications. Zero-native bypasses Electron runtime in favor or native OS WebViews and claims to achieve smaller, more efficient native apps with minimal overhead. Zero-native is written in Zig, thus directly interoperates with native C libraries, and features fast incremental compilation times. By Bruno Couriol

Andrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for — housing, food, wireless — and thinks the next startup gold rush is giving that money back.

Cash App's AT&T-based MVNO will offer an unlimited 5G data plan for $40 per month including taxes and fees. The new mobile service is powered by Gigs, the same firm behind the Klarna mobile service that launched last year with the same pricing and is "rolling out to select users, with broader availability planned in […]

After getting its hands on a Trump phone and tearing it apart, iFixit has confirmed what I first reported back in February: the T1 Phone is an almost exact duplicate of the HTC U24 Pro. iFixit partnered with NBC to get hold of the network's media sample of the Trump phone, along with a U24 […]

WWDC26 brought a substantial round of updates to SwiftUI — not a ground-up redesign, but a lot of small limitations removed, new APIs that were clearly driven by real-world pain points, and meaningful performance improvements. This post walks through every major announcement so you know exactly what's available and when to reach for it. Look and Feel: Liquid Glass and the 2027 Releases The most immediately visible change costs you zero code. Apps built with SwiftUI automatically pick up the updated Liquid Glass appearance on the 2027 OS releases. The glass tint responds to the new system-level Liquid Glass slider without any changes on your part. On iPad, windows now dim when inactive, reinforcing which window has focus — again, automatic. On Mac, custom interactive Liquid Glass elements respond more fluidly to the mouse pointer. There are a few opt-in refinements available when you want tighter control: Responding to active state — use the appearsActive environment value to reduce opacity on custom elements when the window is inactive: struct SidebarFooterView : View { @Environment (\ . appearsActive ) private var appearsActive var body : some View { MyAccountView () . opacity ( appearsActive ? 1 : 0.5 ) } } Menu bar icons — the menu bar now shows a minimal set of icons by default. Add .labelStyle(.titleAndIcon) to a specific menu item to make its icon visible: CommandMenu ( "Stickers" ) { Button { openStore () } label : { Label ( "Store" , systemImage : "bag.fill" ) . labelStyle ( . titleAndIcon ) } } Resizability on iPhone iPhone apps become resizable on iOS 27, which matters for iPhone Mirroring and running iPhone apps on iPad. Xcode 27's Live Previews now include resize handles so you can test this interactively without running on a device. If your app mixes UIKit and SwiftUI, check the session "Modernize your UIKit app" for specifics around screen geometry, size classes, and orientation handling. Toolbar APIs The toolbar has been a source of friction on smalle

Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all saying versions of the same thing. An entrepreneur at heart, […]

The media giant is pushing to expand its mobile and gaming business.

AT&T has introduced a new "Unlimited Day Pass" cellular data offer for iPad users who need brief connectivity instead of signing up for a long-term plan. The day pass is available for $3 in the US starting today, providing 24 hours of unlimited data, with no contracts, subscriptions, or credit checks required. This offer is […]

You now can get a US phone number with NordVPN's Saily eSIM app.

Every QA team knows the feeling. The home screen works. Browse works. Search works. Cart works. And...

Opera's new Android update includes a soccer hub in time for the World Cup.

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This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built CampusBeat 2.0 — a React Native campus super-app for students across 17 colleges in Odisha, India. It started in 2023 as a simple notice board aggregator: scrape college websites so students didn't have to visit them. It worked. Students used it. Then life happened, and it sat untouched on GitHub for three years. This challenge gave me the push to finally open that repo again. What I found was equal parts embarrassing and educational. What it is now: 📰 Real-time notices for 17 colleges — ITER, KIIT, NIT Rourkela, IIT, and more 🎨 Complete UI overhaul — warm cream × charcoal × coral editorial design 🃏 3D tiltable campus identity card you can share with friends 🔖 Bookmarks — save any notice, grouped by college 💬 Real-time campus chat rooms powered by Socket.io 🛒 Campus marketplace — buy/sell within your college 🔔 Push notifications via Firebase Demo The original app from July 2023: LinkedIn post CampusBeat 2.0 — running on device: Onboarding screen - with beautiful animation Onboarding.mp4 - Google Drive drive.google.com Login screen — editorial serif heading, Lottie animation, warm ink hero Register screen — custom college picker bottom sheet with live search Home screen — quote card, college notice feed, floating tab bar Profile screen — 3D tiltable campus card with holographic shimmer Share modal — drag to rotate the card, share natively News Explorer — college chips, notice type tabs, live banner Marketplace — buy and sell within your college Bookmark - your persistent news bookmark.mp4 - Google Drive drive.google.com Chat screen - live interaction within colleges chat.mp4 - Google Drive drive.google.com The Comeback Story What I found after 3 years Opening an old repo is humbling. Here is what I walked into. The dead API. The home screen showed a daily quote — except quotable.io had shut down. Every user was silently seeing the hardcoded fallback for three years: "Villains are not bad, the

Forms are everywhere in mobile apps - authentication flows, data entry, support requests, onboarding... If your app has a login screen, a form is likely the first thing a new user interacts with. That makes accessibility here not just a nice-to-have, but a first impression. The problem is that forms are consistently one of the most broken areas for assistive technology users. Missing labels, keyboard traps, silent validation errors, focus going nowhere after submission - these are issues that make an app unusable for a significant portion of your users. This guide is a complete reference for building forms that work for everyone in React Native, whether users are navigating with their fingers, an external keyboard, a screen reader or voice input. Code examples throughout show both what to do and why . A fully working demo repo is available to fork and test on a real device - check it out at rn-accessible-form-demo . Labels Every form field needs a label, whether a text input, checkbox or radio/submit buttons. No exceptions. Don't rely on placeholders Placeholder text disappears the moment a user starts typing. Screen readers will read it initially, but once it's gone, there's no way for them to recall what the field was for without clearing their input. Placeholders are useful as hints, not as labels. Use a visual label + accessibilityLabel To avoid screen readers announcing the same information twice (once for the visual label, once for the input), hide the visual label from assistive technology and put the full label on the input itself. < Text importantForAccessibility = "no" accessibilityElementsHidden > Email address* </ Text > < TextInput accessibilityLabel = "Email address, required" /> importantForAccessibility="no" handles Android, and accessibilityElementsHidden handles iOS. Together they tell assistive technology to skip the visual label entirely - the accessibilityLabel on the TextInput is the single source of truth for screen readers. Required fields De

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, I'm investigating where it might have been built - and why it definitely wasn't the US. Almost a year after its announcement, the Trump phone has "launched." A […]