Mobile Dev Weekly February 28, 2018   #196
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Announcing Flutter Beta 1: Build Beautiful Native Apps — The first beta release of Flutter just got announced at Mobile World Congress 2018. It’s Google’s mobile UI framework for crafting native interfaces for both iOS and Android.
Google
Chris Brandrick recommends
Welcoming PWAs: Apple Now Supports Service Workers On Safari — With Safari 11.1, Apple will introduce service workers to both macOS and iOS — a crucial ingredient for Progressive Web Apps.
Andrew Gazdecki
Sponsored
Webinar: Let's Talk Appium — Join us on March 14 for a free webinar featuring some of the world's leading Appium experts, discussing all things Appium, mobile testing, and the upcoming AppiumConf taking place on April 6 in London.
AppiumConf

Peter Cooper recommends
Announcing Capacitor 1.0.0 Alpha — A new project from the Ionic folks that aims to offer a better native runtime for Ionic apps in the future across all platforms (including on the Web with PWAs).
Ionic
Holly Schinsky recommends
Xamarin vs React Native vs Ionic: Cross-Platform Mobile Frameworks Comparison — A look at cross platform mobile frameworks, comparing Xamarin, React Native and Ionic.
AltexSoft Inc
Chris Brandrick recommends
App Developer Salary Guide 2018 — Plenty of statistics on iOS and Android developer salaries and how they compare.
Artyom Dogtiev
Chris Brandrick recommends
How Blind People Use iPhones — Apple engineer Jordyn Castor, attorney Haben Girma, & accessibility consultant Tiffany Taylor demonstrate how accessibility features like VoiceOver allow people to be more independent & efficient.
BuzzFeed News
Mobile Web
Holly Schinsky recommends
A Comprehensive Guide To UI Design — A guide to finding a solid UI approach that stands the test of time.
Christopher Murphy
Brian Rinaldi recommends
What Google AMP Means for the JavaScript Community
Mathias Schäfer
Hybrid Apps
Holly Schinsky recommends
Adding a Payment Service to a Cordova App with Square
Khemry Khourn
Holly Schinsky recommends
Hybrid App Development with Framework7 and GraphCMS
Meinolf Droste
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Optimizing Performance of an Ionic 3 Application — Aimed at starters with Ionic who are thinking about app performance for the first time.
Kewin Dousse
Native Development
Peter Cooper recommends
Google Announces ARCore 1.0 — ARCore enables devs to build apps that can understand an environment and place objects and information in it.
Google
Holly Schinsky recommends
Flutter Crash Course — A video crash course on how to use Flutter to build a complete app from scratch.
Bram Vanbilsen
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Mobile Smalltalk — Ever wanted to be able to develop mobile apps for Android and iOS using Smalltalk? Well, either way, now you can!
David Buck
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Using WordPress Content in a Native Mobile App — WordPress runs almost 30% of all websites today. Here’s how to re-purpose that content in a cross-platform native mobile app with NativeScript.
Rob Lauer
Holly Schinsky recommends
Integrating Firebase with a Stencil Built PWA — How to integrate Firebase with your Progressive Web App based on Stencil.
Andrew Cole
Chris Brandrick recommends
The Amazing Amount of Backward Compatibility in Google Maps — An interesting look back at Google’s longstanding native app support.
Huan Truong