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16-17 JULY 2026

ORLANDO

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( SPEAKER )

Kevin Galligan

Partner at Touchlab

( SESSION )

Native Mobile and AI

Native mobile development fundamentally involves the same app being implemented on distinct platforms. Frontier LLMs are able to analyze and translate code between these platforms. How can native mobile teams utilize this technology, and what does it mean for the community and industry? We've all been flooded with opinions about AI and software development. They range from "this is all hype" to "we won't need devs anymore". How AI and software development eventually merge remains to be seen. This talk is not about that, although we'll touch on it. Native mobile is a unique domain. Mobile is critical to most products and users. Mobile has been, and remains, dominated by two platforms. Few desktop apps are delivered as native apps, but for the best user experience, most mobile apps are. Mobile app development has involved a tradeoff between implementing with two native teams, or accepting the compromise of cross-platform. AI will change that equation. LLMs and agents are capable enough to translate apps between platforms. Doing so is simply a matter of engineering. How does that work? What does that mean for app development? What impact might that have for native mobile development in general? I gave an intro talk about this topic last year, but so much has changed. Whatever you think about AI and dev, there are realities that are unavoidable. And no domain is going to be impacted as much as native mobile.
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