Mobile Dev Weekly July 25, 2018   #217
Chris Brandrick recommends
Announcing the Ionic 4 Beta — The beta release of Ionic 4, a framework for building native apps and PWAs with Web technology, has just landed. 4.0 marks the first version to completely embrace modern Web APIs such as Custom Elements, CSS Variables and Shadow DOM, plus it’s framework-agnostic at its core.
Ionic
Brian Rinaldi recommends
A One Year PWA Retrospective — A look back at what it took to build Pinterest’s PWA and the metrics around customer response.
Pinterest Engineering
Sponsored
Streaming Video to Mobile Devices on Any Network — Playing video from 3G to Wi-Fi: A guide to HTTP Live Streaming, the adaptive bitrate streaming protocol originally created by Apple and supported by iOS, Android, and more.
Mux

Holly Schinsky recommends
Developing Mobile Apps with Xamarin Forms and Azure Functions — In this tutorial, learn how to use Xamarin Forms and Microsoft Azure Functions to develop mobile apps supported by serverless functions.
Daniel Krzyczkowski
Peter Cooper recommends
Apple’s App Store Revenue Nearly Double That of Google Play in First Half of 2018 — In the first half of 2018, the App Store generated nearly double the revenue of Google Play on half the downloads, according to a new report.
TechCrunch
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Mobile App Testing: Challenges, Types and Best Practices — A pretty thorough look at the challenges specific to testing mobile apps and various approaches to it.
Hardik Shah
Holly Schinsky recommends
5 'Hot' New CSS Features and How to Use Them — Including the CSS Display module (e.g. display: contents), CSS overscroll behavior, conditional rules, and containment.
Daniel Crisp
Za'e Johnson recommends
PWACompat: The Web App Manifest for All Browsers — Use the PWACompat library to easily bring your Web App Manifest to all browsers, even non-compliant ones.
Google Developers
Peter Cooper recommends
Speed is Now a Landing Page Factor for Google Search and Ads
Google Developers
Holly Schinsky recommends
iOS 12: New Things in Notifications — Learn about what changes iOS 12 is bringing to notifications.
Yuri Petukhov
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Give That Slow Hybrid Mobile App A Native Performance Boost — Nic explains why he believes hybrid mobile apps are slow and how they can be improved with by using a framework like NativeScript.
Nic Raboy
Sponsored
Webinar: What Serverless Means for Enterprise Mobile Apps — There’s a new approach to app development. Join us on Aug 1 as we go beyond the hype to simplify the serverless approach.
Progress Kinvey

Peter Cooper recommends
‎DevCleaner: Reclaim Gigabytes of Space Used by Xcode Caches
Mac App Store
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Are Android Apps Heading to a Whiter Future with Rounder Rectangles? — A look at what’s to come from Google’s 2018 ‘Material’ redesign.
The Verge
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Cross Platform Mobile Apps with .NET and Uno — Exploring the new Uno platform for mobile development.
Alex Billson
Brian Rinaldi recommends
What's New in ARKit 2 — A look at some new features like persistent world maps, environment texturing, 3D object recognition and more.
Vardhan Agrawal