This week I attended my first Mobile Engineering Leaders at Scale session over in the @redisinc.bsky.social Offices. It was a fun evening where I got to speak with other mobile leads, each sharing experiences around problems their mobile teams face. #MobileDev #Scaling #Growth

Last week's interesting thread for me was this blog post from the creator of ClawdBot / Moltbot / OpenClaw. It's helpful to see developers pull back the curtain on what they are doing to push Agents and help them build software. steipete.me/posts/2025/s... #VibeCoding #Prototyping #Innovation

Here's a thread from Hacker News that caught my eye. A user asks COBOL mainframe maintainers whether AI is impacting their jobs. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4667... #AI #LLMs #COBOL

With December here its around this time I like to showcase my Apple Development skills and talk about Christmas Chill. The one stop App for all your festive looped videos! 📽️🎄 apps.apple.com/gb/app/chris... #AppleDev #iOSDev #tvOS #AppleVisionPro

After more than a year of work I'm excited to share the latest project I've been involved in. The ATG Tickets App, now publically available in the UK! 🎭 🎟️ 📱 www.theatrefullstop.com/2025/11/05/a... #AndroidDev #iOSDev #MobileDev #Ticketing

If you use Apple's Foundational Models inside the Shortcuts App you may find the responses generic. That's because language models on device hit hardware limits. To solve, you can switch to using Private Cloud Compute in a couple of taps. Resulting in more accurate responses! #iOSDev #GenAI

Building your own Generative AI workflows on your iPhone is simple as a few taps using the Shortcuts App. Super useful if you're looking to prototype what is possible using Apple's foundational models without writing a line of code. #iOSDev #Apple #GenerativeAI #SLM

Been playing around with iOS 26 recently. I was pleasantly surprised at how accessible Apple's Language Models are using the Shortcuts App. So much so I thought it was worth writing about in a short post. 🍎 darrylbayliss.net/using-apples... #iOSDev #Apple #GenerativeAI #SLM

Thank you to @androidweekly.bsky.social and @kotlinweekly.bsky.social for including my post on running a RAG powered AI model in your Android app in their latest newsletters! I look forward to their emails each week. Give them a subscribe if you don't already. 😀 #AndroidDev #Kotlin #GenerativeAI

I have a new blog post out! It's all about how to run RAG powered AI models locally in your Android apps! 🦾 🤖 darrylbayliss.net/running-a-ra... #AndroidDev #GenerativeAI #LLMs

Concurrent programming is a technique to allow apps perform multiple actions at once. All while making it appear seamless to the user!📱 To help teach this concept, I have a new set of lessons and videos available @kodeco.com. 🙌 www.kodeco.com/ios/paths/co... #iOS #Swift #WWDC

With London Tech Week in full swing I'm planning to attend this event about AI and how it can create engaging communities: londontechweek.com/fringe-event... A little skeptical AI can help here but going with a open mind to see what the future looks like. 😃 🤖 🤝 #LondonTechWeek #AI #Communities

Looking for something to help chill out this bank holiday weekend? ☀️ Ocean Chill now supports AppleTV, giving you more ways to enjoy relaxing ocean views from the comfort of your home! 🌊 🐚 📺 Check it out and download here: apps.apple.com/gb/app/ocean... #AppleVisionPro #AppleTV #AppStore

Thank you @kotlinweekly.bsky.social for including my talk about running SLMs on mobile devices in your latest newsletter. Much appreciated! 😀👍 🦾 bsky.app/profile/kotl... #MobileDev #AI #SLMs

Had a great time discussing Small Language Models and their on-device uses with MediaPipe. Thanks to everyone who joined! 🎤🦾 Special thanks to Londroid for organising and Vonage for sponsoring! 🤩 Watch the talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPLG... #Londroid #AndroidDev #AI

Two days to go until I'll be at Vonage talking about running Small Language Models in your apps as part of Londroid! 📱 To prep I updated my Simon Says repo to use Google DeepMind's new Gemma 3 models. Hope you find it useful! 🙏 github.com/DarrylBaylis... #Londroid #AndroidDev #AI

I'll be speaking at Londroid next week about running Small Language Models in your Apps using MediaPipe. 📱🦾 🪈 Looking forward to it and hopefully see you there! 😀 www.meetup.com/android/even... #AndroidDev #Londroid #AI

Learn how to build ViewModels in SwiftUI with this course I worked on with Audrey Tam! 🏗️ Explore Observation, Environment property wrappers, and Dependency Injection, providing practical insights and examples for your next app. 🔭 Dive in now on @kodeco.com for subscribers. #SwiftUI #iOSDev

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It's just over a year since attending Google's Gemma Developer Day. I recall learning Gemma was designed as an Open Source model and envisioned to work with developers and researchers on their preferred tech. 🤝 💻 Now with Gemma 3 available I'm thinking of revisiting it. 🤖📱 #Gemma #Google #AI

My recent blog post about building for multiple apple platforms is live and on the front page of @hackernoon.com! 😃 👨‍💻🙌 hackernoon.com #iOSDev #VisionOSDev #MultiplatformDev

Are you working to make your app run across multiple Apple platforms? Then my 1st blog post of 2025 is for you. 🍎📱💻 Expect to read about SwiftUI, Xcode configurations, App Targets and build phases! 🧑‍💻 🏗️ 📁 www.darrylbayliss.net/multiplatfor... #iOSDev #VisionOS #SwiftUI #MultiplatformDevelopment

This week I attended the January edition of Londroid in the wise offices. 💸 🤖 🌎 As usual I was connecting with the Android community and also keen to learn something new. I certainly learnt and a thing or two, and wanted to share some of the knowledge from the evening. #Londroid #AndroidDev

Made a little bit more progress with Android XR. This time adding compose navigation and media3 / exoplayer linking to a video url. It's starting to look like an app! 😀 #AndroidDev #AndroidXR #SpatialComputing

Playing about with textures, lighting & shaders in Unity. I came up with this still life, which shows off a custom shader graph I built to rapidly change the color of a few objects! 🌈 🕹️ #Unity #StillLife #GameDev

New Year, New Platform, New Fun! 🎆 Initial thoughts on AndroidXR are positive. Very quick to get setup with a fresh project and the emulator does a good job of providing feedback. 🥽 Will carry on playing and see how far I get.💡 #AndroidDev #AndroidXR #SpatialComputing

Today is the last day to vote for your favourite talk coming to SXSW London next year! 2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 5️⃣ I'd appreciate your vote for me, so I can share more about the change happening in the UK relating to public EV Charging! 🔌🔋🚙 tinyurl.com/3vynj4e6 #SXSWLondon2025 #ConnectedMobility #ElectricVehicles

Still looking for a festive background for your Apple TV or Apple Vision Pro? 👀 Christmas Chill is down to £1.99 / €1.99 / $1.99 to see you right through the holiday season! 🎄☃️ Download here 👉 apple.co/4fphDDN #AppleTV #XR #Christmas

SXSW is coming to London next year and I've submitted a talk about Public EV Chargers in the UK. 🇬🇧 🔌 🚗 I'd appreciate your vote to be on the SXSW London stage sharing where public EV charging in the UK is going! 🗳️ tinyurl.com/3vynj4e6 #SXSWLondon #SXSWLondon2025 #ElectricVehicles

Exciting news! Foresee building an Android XR App being on the cards next year! 🥽 🖼️ 🧑‍💻 android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/12/intr... #AndroidDev #XR

Each year, I spend time working on Christmas Chill - a fun Apple TV App featuring festive looped videos. Think roaring log fires, snowy backgrounds. 🔥 🎄 📺 This year, it's also available on Apple Vision Pro, bringing Seasons Greetings to Spatial Computing! 🥽 christmaschill.chillvideosapp.com

This week I was back in the Just Eat UK offices for another edition of Londroid! 🍔 📣 🤖 The speakers were top notch and included a project building a guitar pedal using a Raspberry Pi, as well as tips when working with compose. #AndroidDev #MobileDev #JetpackCompose #Kotlin #Londroid

Hey Android Devs. I'll be posting Android content here on interesting things I find, as well as other things relating to mobile and the cloud. Hope you enjoy! #AndroidDev #MobileDev #Developers

Added a new feature to evbuddy.io, you can now filter chargers based on your own criteria! 🔌 📍 📋 Just set your filters and the map does the searching for you.🗺️ 🤖 🔎 #ElectricVehicles #evcharging #mapping

Enjoyed this read about Microsoft's new Phi-3-mini model running on smaller devices from @arstechnica.com. arstechnica.com/information-... #GenerativeAI #MobileDev #SmallLanguageModels

Thank you @hackernoon.bsky.social for selecting Playing Simon Says with Gemma-2b and MediaPipe as a top story! Read what happened when I tested running the Gemma LLM from Google on Android: hackernoon.com/playing-simo... #GenerativeAI #androiddev #Gemma

Can LLMs run on mobile devices? With the use of MediaPipe they're starting to make an appearance! 📱🎞️🪈 Here's a new blog post where I try out MediaPipe and Google's new Gemma model.🕵️ #generativeai #gemma #androiddev www.darrylbayliss.net/playing-simo...

Attended Google's Gemma Developer Day at their King's Cross office this week. Saw demos of their new models running across laptops, mobile devices and inside a web app! 💻📱🕸️ I left feeling there wasn't enough emphasis on responsible use as the Gen AI hype continues. 😬 #google #gemma #generativeai

I’m happy to share that I’ve obtained a new certification: Professional Cloud Architect from Google Cloud! 🤓 ☁️ 📚 #GoogleCloudCertified google.accredible.com/b1028e3b-89d...

Last week I attended the first NSLondon of 2024 hosted by The Trainline. Continuing to learn and also catching up with mobile engineers in the iOS community 📱🚆😃 #mobileappdevelopment #iosdev #softwareengineering

A few pictures from Serverless London Meetup over in the Motorway offices. Learnt about AWS Bedrock, A ChatGPT chatbot giving unexpected answers to Chevolet customers and a new way of building cloud architecture called Application Architecture as Code. #serverless #aws #cloudarchitecture

Here are a few things I'm looking forward to in 2024. 🥽 📍 Apple Vision Pro Release 📱 🤖 The AI Focus Coming to Mobile 📚 📖 Reading More For Fun