Solana Drops Mobile Dev Bomb: Android & iOS Kit Lets Builders Bypass App Store Gatekeepers
Solana just handed developers a flamethrower to burn down app store walls. Their new mobile SDK—dropping simultaneously for Android and iOS—gives crypto builders a direct path to users’ pockets without Apple’s 30% tax or Google’s bureaucratic speed bumps.
The play? Flip the script on centralized app distribution. Now any Solana-based project can embed wallet functions, NFT displays, and DeFi hooks straight into native mobile apps—no clunky browser workarounds needed.
Timing’s delicious: drops amid Apple’s antitrust reckoning and Google’s half-hearted Web3 concessions. One cynical observer might note this conveniently distracts from Solana’s 2022 mobile ambitions that... well, let’s say ’evolved’ after FTX’s implosion.
Builders get tools. Users get frictionless access. And TradFi app stores? They just got a 100M developer-sized headache.