Custom Web App or Off-the-Shelf SaaS? A Practical Way to Decide
Sooner or later every growing business hits the same fork. The tool you bought two years ago still works, but your team now keeps a spreadsheet next to it, a…
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Insights on mobile & web development, AI, and modern engineering — 72 articles from the MSApps team.
The Agents' Mac Was Full — and Downloads Had Nothing to Do With It: How 774 Git Worktrees Ate a 926 GB Disk, and What We Did About It
One morning the Mac that runs our agent fleet started to stutter. I checked: 16 GB free on a 926 GB disk, and swap sitting at 94% of its ceiling. The first…
Your MCP Servers Are Quietly Eating Your Mac's Disk
One of our Macs runs AI coding agents unattended at night. On 2026-10-03 it stopped mid-job with ENOSPC — no space left on device — with more than 417 GB used…
We Removed a Third-Party Form Handler. It Also Removed Our Safety Net.
Last week we removed a third-party form relay from one of our own marketing sites. The reasoning was simple and, we still think, correct: when our owned form…
Two Google Cloud 404s That Look Exactly Like Permission Walls
We spent a day building AutoPilot Agentic — a Google ADK agent crew running on Gemini 3.5 over Vertex AI, deployed to Cloud Run — as an entry for Google's All…
Caveman Hit 100k Stars. We Didn't Deploy It — Here's Why
Caveman is one of the fastest-growing projects in the AI tooling world right now: created in April 2026, it passed 100,000 GitHub stars in under five months.…
Your App Shipped — That Is Where the Real Work Starts
Most businesses budget an app as a project: discovery, design, build, test, launch — and an end date. That is a reasonable way to think about a brochure site.…
Digital Accessibility in 2026: What the Law Requires from Your Website and App
Roughly one in five people lives with some form of disability — visual, auditory, motor, or cognitive. When your website or app is not accessible, you are…
MCP: How Businesses Connect AI to Their Real Systems
Most businesses that have experimented with AI hit the same ceiling: the chat is clever, but it does not know the business. It cannot see the orders in your…
Using Claude Code on a $20/Month Subscription: Notes from Daily Mobile Development at MSApps
Author: Shay Shimoni, Mobile Developer, MSApps
How MSApps Built 20+ Open-Source Claude Plugins for Business Automation
MSApps has built and open-sourced more than twenty Claude Code plugins. They are not demos. Each one automates a piece of work a real team does every week —…
SOSA: A Framework for Safe Enterprise AI Agents
The hard part of enterprise AI is not making an agent capable. Today's models are capable. The hard part is making a capable agent safe to run unattended, on…
AI Automation for Business Operations: Start With the Work Nobody Wants
AI automation for operations is not a chatbot. A chatbot answers; an implemented workflow acts. It reads the data, makes the decision the rules allow, and…
MSApps enters the AI era
The honest opener: for fifteen years we've built mobile apps for Israeli enterprise — Toyota and Lexus, Phoenix, Assuta, Cynet, Theranica, Personetics, Matrix,…
Why You Should Learn React.js in 2024
Why You Should Learn React.js in 2024
Why SQL Might Not Be the Best Choice for Your Mobile Application
When it comes to mobile app development, choosing the right data storage solution is crucial. Many developers naturally gravitate towards SQL databases, like…
WEB FORMS VS MVC
Let’s start with the definition of ASP.NET . WHAT IS IT?
Version Control Best Practices: How to Keep Your Codebase Clean and Manageable
Version Control Best Practices: How to Keep Your Codebase Clean and Manageable
Wearable Health Tech: Can Smart Devices Really Predict Illness?
In the realm of healthcare, technology continues to revolutionize the way we monitor and manage our health. Among the most exciting developments are wearable…
Understanding Webhooks in iOS
A Guide to Real-Time Event Handling
Transform Your Android App: The Power of Dynamic Features
In the world of mobile development, efficiency and scalability are key to delivering high-quality apps. One of the most effective ways to achieve both is by…
The Importance of Data Structures and Algorithms in Swift Programming
In Swift , high-level functions and abstractions make programming more intuitive and concise. Built-in methods like map, filter, and reduce allow developers to…
Lottie
Lottie: Animation Made Easy
The Power of Characterization in Software Development
In software development, the importance of characterization is often overlooked, but it’s a practice that can significantly impact the functionality,…
Tackling Old Bugs and Building Future-Ready Code
Every developer at some point encounters the challenge of dealing with legacy code. It’s a common story: a codebase built over years, touched by multiple…
Swift UI
A New Paradigm in iOS Development
Static Library in Swift
Where we can see frameworks and libraries? The answer is everywhere, Apple standard libraries (UiKit, MapKit, SwiftUI, etc) and third-party libraries like…
Redux Toolkit Query
A Simple and Powerful Way to Fetch Data in Your App
React Native CLI vs Expo CLI
The debate about whether to start with React Native CLI or Expo CLI when learning React Native is an interesting one. Both tools have their pros and cons, and…
Permed
Team of researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University.
Opaque Type
If you’re new to Swift, the term “opaque type” might sound confusing or intimidating. But fear not! Opaque types are a really useful tool that can help you…
MVVM vs MVP design patterns
Software design pattern is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design
Mastering App Performance Optimization for 2024
In the ever-evolving world of mobile apps, performance isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s a dealbreaker. Users demand speed, responsiveness, and reliability—and…
Machine Learning
In addition of the article about face recognition in iOS presenting this article
The Evolution of Mobile App Development: Key Trends and Predictions for the Next Decade
As mobile technology rapidly advances, the landscape of mobile app development is constantly evolving. Developers and businesses are looking for ways to stay…
GDPR – what is it?
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Flutter VS React native
Flutter makes apps run faster and smoother than React Native. It does this by talking directly to the phone’s system, without a middleman. This is great for…
FakeStagram With SwiftUI !
Bow wow wow yeepee yo yeepe yeah ! who wants to learn how to create the bases of an instagram like app using SwiftUI ? One at the time guys, you”ll all get…
Face Recognition iOS
Apple presents a cool feature from iOS 11 called face recognition. This feature is a part of the Vision framework. It can detect faces, rectangle and more…
DOKI
An app designed to remind patients to schedule routine and special tests, made for preventing future illnesses
Develop Mobile Applications using COVID-19 data
In the modern world, one of the most important resources is information. Huge streams of information revolve around us — social networks, blogs, news sites……
Deep Linking in Android: Best Practices and Common Pitfalls
Deep linking is a crucial feature that allows apps to be opened directly to specific content or actions from external sources such as websites, emails, or…
Data Security in Android Apps: Best Practices and Essential Tools
In our digital age, Android apps play a central role in users’ lives, handling a wealth of sensitive information such as personal details, payment credentials,…
Core Graphics iOS Framework
The Core Graphics framework is based on the power of Quartz advanced drawing engine. It provides low-level, lightweight 2D rendering. The uses of this…
Conversational Shortcuts-Params in iOS13
Apple at WWDC presented new extra functionality for Siri Shortcuts. Now we can have a conversation with Siri, ask her and “She” will answer us. But of course,…
CocoaPods vs Swift Package Manager
If you’ve been in the game for a while, you know that managing dependencies in iOS development can sometimes feel like a game of whack-a-mole. In this post,…
Cloud Computing Trends in 2024: Is Serverless the Future?
In the world of tech, where “the next big thing” changes faster than you can say “cloud-native,” serverless computing has emerged as the latest evolution. For…
ChatGPT
The Large Language Model by OpenAI
iOS
Build SwiftUI App with API request
Here I will not explain what is it SwiftUI, because if you already started reading this article, you definitely know what it is ?. I not, visit…
Augmented Reality iOS
Augmented reality makes user experience objects appearance in 2D or 3D in the real world. Those objects are seen from the camera and can be defines to stay in…
Android Instant App
Have you ever thought about the idea to make people use your app instantly, without open the your app listing on Google Play Store and make them wonder if they…
My first experience with augmented reality
When I was first needed to start using ARCore, I started with making little research on the web to find out what is it exactly and what it can do, I found out…
Binary Frameworks in Swift
In WWDC 2019 Apple conducted a new code distribution format – XCFrameworks. Xcode 11 completely supports using and creating binary frameworks in Swift.…
Augmented Reality in E-Commerce: Is This the Future of Shopping?
Shopping has transformed dramatically with digital advancements, but augmented reality (AR) may be one of the biggest shifts we’ve seen. By overlaying digital…
Associated Type
When defining a protocol, it’s sometimes useful to declare one or more associated types as part of the protocol’s definition. An associated type gives a…
Android View Binding
ViewBinding is a feature that allows you to more easily write code (less boilerPlate code) that interacts with the views from the XML file directly in the…
Android Dark Mode
Dark theme is available in Android 10 (API level 29) and higher
Android – Jetpack Compose
Before we begin a little bit on reactive programming:
Manual vs. Automated Testing – When Should You Use Each?
article by : Dor Cohen – Software QA Engineer
QA Testing Methodologies: Types, Differences, and How to Choose the Right One
article by : Dor Cohen – Software QA Engineer
Foldables & Large Screen Optimization in 2025
Building Adaptive UIs for Dual-Screen and Tablet Experiences
Android 16: What's New, Behavior Changes, and How It Affects Your Apps
Google has officially released Android 16, marking a significant shift in the Android release cycle. With two releases each year with new APIs: a major…
AI in Xcode 26 and Apple’s Foundation Models: Technology Overview, Advantages, Limitations
In 2025, Apple released Xcode 26—the first version of its IDE deeply integrated with artificial intelligence. This became one of the most significant updates…
Strict Concurrency in Swift 6: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Incremental Adoption
Modern applications increasingly rely on asynchronous and multithreaded operations. With Swift 6, the platform introduced the Strict Concurrency flag—a…
Custom URL Schemes vs. Universal Links in iOS: Future-Proof Deep Linking
In the iOS ecosystem, developers often need to guide users directly to a specific screen inside an app—whether they’ve tapped a link in an email or clicked an…
10 Common Mistakes in App Development and How to Avoid Them
App development is a complex process that requires precise planning, technical understanding, and proper resource management. Here are 10 common mistakes in…
The Future of App Development: New Technologies for 2025
Technological developments in the mobile and digital worlds continue to accelerate, and the field of app development is on the verge of a genuine revolution in…
The Complete Guide to App Development: From Idea to Launch
App development is a complex process that begins with a raw idea and transforms into a digital product serving users around the world. To succeed, it’s…
Mastering App Performance Optimization for 2024
In the ever-evolving world of mobile apps, performance isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s a dealbreaker. Users demand speed, responsiveness, and reliability—and…
The Role of Tech in Sustainable Living
In the face of climate change, dwindling natural resources, and environmental degradation, the need for sustainable living has never been more urgent.…
Ktor Framework: The Modern Way to Build Kotlin Applications
When building server-side applications or APIs, developers often look for a framework that is lightweight, highly customizable, and designed with modern…
What Android 15 Brings for Developers
Android 15, Google’s latest iteration of its popular mobile operating system, has arrived with a slew of features and enhancements designed to empower…