Capawesome's new Capacitor plugin runs Google's Kotlin-first ads artifact on Android and the legacy SDK on iOS. Any cross-platform monetization stack faces the same split before the June 2028 sunset.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives84
- Confidence45
A Capacitor puzzle build now delivers 5.88 MB where it once delivered 13.09 MB, yet the bundle on disk barely moved, because R8 writes a 3.83 MB deobfuscation map that Play keeps and never sends to a phone.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives30
- Confidence55
Raxxo Studios got a Three.js game approved in 17 days. The four bugs that nearly stopped it all failed quietly, so each cost about a day of debugging the wrong layer, starting with one headless Chrome flag.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives58
- Confidence44
A dev.to writeup credits Google Jules with a signed Android release produced from a phone browser. What stood in for the laptop was a GitHub Actions runner holding the SDK and the keystore.
Reality
- Evidence24
- Adoption16
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives62
- Confidence44
A dev.to writeup lays out owning, renting or borrowing macOS. Rental only beats a $799 Mac mini for eight to forty months, depending on the tier.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+16
- Incentives72
- Confidence40
The HTML download attribute is a hint browsers may ignore. On Android WebView and iOS Safari it was ignored silently, and DevTools emulation never noticed.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption21
- Hype gap−12
- Incentives31
- Confidence47