Ali3N Dev
Developer news for people who ship apps, published by the studio that ships them.
Ali3N Dev is published by Ali3N Studios LLC, an independent studio building Android and iOS apps — mostly in mental health, accessibility and field tools. We read these announcements anyway, because a target API deadline or a billing library change is something we have to act on by Friday. This site is that reading, written down.
What it covers
Platform releases, SDK changes, store policy, deprecations and deadlines across Android, Google Play, iOS, the App Store, Kotlin, Swift, Firebase, build tooling and the AI developer platforms. The test for whether something belongs here is simple: does a developer have to do something differently because of it? If the answer is no, it does not get an article.
What it is not
It is not a feed reader, and it is not a rewrite of other people's reporting. Stories are researched from the primary source — the vendor's own announcement, release notes or changelog — and written as an original synthesis. Where secondary coverage adds something, it is cited alongside. Nobody's article is republished here.
It is also not pretending to be hand-written. Most of it is drafted by an AI model from verified facts and published automatically when it clears a quality bar. That is documented in detail on the AI disclosure page, including the specific things the system is not permitted to do.
Firsthand writing
Field notes and Guides are different: they come out of actually shipping the apps in our catalogue. Store rejections, billing bugs that cost real money, SDK migrations that took three days longer than they should have. Those are written from experience rather than assembled from announcements.
Our apps
We do occasionally point at our own apps, and when we do it is labelled as ours and only appears where it is genuinely relevant to what you are reading. An article about Gradle build times will never carry an app advertisement. That restraint is enforced by a relevance floor in the system, not by good intentions — see the editorial policy.
Contact
Corrections, tips and complaints: get in touch. Corrections are made on the article with a note, not quietly.