Mobile Dev Weekly June 27, 2018   #213
Chris Brandrick recommends
Using Google’s Flutter For Truly Cross-Platform Mobile Development — An intro to Flutter, comparing it to other mobile development platforms, and how to use it to get started building apps.
Mike Bluestein
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Building Serverless Mobile Applications with React Native and AWS — Building features like authentication, analytics, a managed data layer, storage & push notifications using AWS Amplify & React Native.
Nader Dabit
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Peter Cooper recommends
Augmented Reality for the Web with WebXR — A new WebXR AR API has been added to Chrome Canary to enable initial testing and playing about if augmented reality is your thing.
Joseph Medley (Google)
Holly Schinsky recommends
React Native at Airbnb: The Technology — The second post in a series where Airbnb details their experiences with React Native and discusses what’s next for them in mobile.
Gabriel Peal
Chris Brandrick recommends
Bidirectional Scrolling is Here to Save Responsive Design — Such a scrolling system allows you “to tease a lot of content from different sections without creating the need to scroll, without hiding things behind a menu and without visually cluttering the interface by showing too much content”.
Fabian Sebastian
Peter Cooper recommends
What It Was Like to Write a Full Blown Flutter App — Thoughts on porting an existing iOS app to Flutter.
Nick Manning
Chris Brandrick recommends
Microsoft Edge for Android Now Comes with a Built-in Ad Blocker — Available in beta right now.
Tom Warren
Brian Rinaldi recommends
PWA Minimus: A Minimal PWA checklist — A checklist and starter code covering the features you need to support to be a progressive web app.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
NativeScript Now Supports Vector Types — NativeScript 4.1 now includes support for vector types on iOS. Here’s a look at how the types work and some of the things you can do with them.
Teodor Dermendzhiev
Peter Cooper recommends
'iPhone Only' Apps On The IPad — iPhone-only apps still get tested (and used) on iPads in their 3:2 aspect ratio version, but as of iOS 12 beta 2 the 16:9 versions will be used for a better experience.
Ben Dodson
Holly Schinsky recommends
Parallel Programming with Swift: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? — How to control concurrency on iOS and what could go wrong when you don’t.
Jan Olbrich
Peter Cooper recommends
Exploring Android P's 'Priority Buckets' — Priority buckets are a battery management update to Android where the system will prioritise resources based on both how often apps are used.
Joe Birch
Holly Schinsky recommends
Testing iOS Apps without Certificate & Provisioning using Monaca Simulator Build — Monaca has released a new Simulator Build feature allowing you to test your mobile apps for iOS without the certificate/provisioning steps.
Benny Wan
Brian Rinaldi recommends
What's New for Devs in iOS 12 and Xcode 10? — A look at coming changes for machine learning, ARKit 2, group notifications and more.
Doron Katz