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The Capacitor team is investing in AI “primitives”: small, single-purpose tools that can be composed into bigger workflows. The same building blocks can take whatever shape the moment calls for, and serve whoever we’re building for: the open source community, OutSystems customers, or even ourselv...
Explore how Capacitor LocalLLM enables on-device AI for iOS and Android apps with a unified TypeScript API. Learn how to build privacy-first mobile experiences using local LLMs, Apple Intelligence, and Gemini Nano—no cloud required.
This update covers two pieces of that work: the first Capacitor 9 alpha for early testing, and improved compatibility for Cordova plugins adopting Swift Package Manager through Cordova iOS 8.
Every product team says they want feedback. Every developer has feedback to give. And yet… there always seems to be a disconnect between the two? Well we’re aiming to solve that problem and we can use your help to define the roadmap of Ionic products! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our...
We’re excited to announce the release of Ionic Framework 8.8! This update makes customizing components easier and more flexible by adding new CSS classes, exposing internal elements through CSS Shadow Parts, and introducing new events for the Modal and Refresher components. Many of the features i...
The Capacitor project has grown tremendously since its inception, and the pace of active development and community contributions is a testament to its success. With that growth came a reality we need to own as maintainers: over time, we did not invest enough consistent attention in open-source tr...
The Capacitor team maintains the core Capacitor runtime, its plugins, and the tooling that supports them. If you’ve opened an issue, reviewed a pull request, or followed a release, you’ve already seen this team’s work in action. Alongside our open-source responsibilities, we’re also one of severa...
Capacitor, our cross-platform native runtime for web apps, continues to grow rapidly in 2025, now nearing one million downloads per week and reaching a new weekly high of nearly 930,000 downloads in mid-November. Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Capacitor 8 — the latest step forwar...
As an iOS developer, I’ve always found Dependency management for iOS to be a chore. For the first four years of the iPhone platform, we didn’t have any options at all. That changed in September of 2011 with the creation and release of Cocoapods by Elon Durán. Written in Ruby, Cocoapods made it po...
Ionic Framework 8.7 is here! This release delivers powerful new features that enhance developer productivity and user experience. From new CSS utility classes that streamline layout development to new Reorder events that provide fine-grained control, plus the latest Ionicons v8 update and Angular...
