Mobile Dev Weekly August 8, 2018   #219
Peter Cooper recommends
The Trick to Viewport Units on Mobile — Notches, scrollbars, navigational elements.. they can all interfere with your use of the vw and vh viewport units. CSS custom properties to the rescue!
Louis Hoebregts
Peter Cooper recommends
Version 2 of Google’s Dart Programming Language Available — Dart is especially well known in mobile dev circles as the language powering Flutter, Google’s cross-platform app development kit.
9to5Google
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How to Stream Video to a Mobile Device — Mobile video is everywhere, but delivering high-quality video is still tricky. Learn about HTTP Live Streaming, the video streaming format created by Apple and supported by iOS and Android.
MUX

Holly Schinsky recommends
All The Reasons Flutter Can Make Your Heart Flutter? Or Not — A quick overview of Flutter, why you may want to try it, and how to properly build your first Flutter app.
Marie Jaksman
Peter Cooper recommends
Apple To Remove Apps and In-App Purchases From Its Affiliate Program — While this won’t affect most developers directly it could hit sales particularly via media, blogs or directories which may no longer be financially motivated to link to apps.
John Voorhees
Chris Brandrick recommends
Facebook Now A Major Mobile Browser in U.S. — The app has grown to become a significant browser on U.S. mobile devices, accounting for 10%+ market share in several states.
Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Brian Rinaldi recommends
NativeScript 4.2 Released — NativeScript 4.2 has landed with all sorts of improvements like a completely rebuilt LiveSync for Android, Webpack debugging, and vastly improved error handling.
Veselina Radeva
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Android 9 'Pie' Now Available for Google Pixel Phones
Dieter Bohn
Holly Schinsky recommends
The PRPL Pattern for Progressive Web Apps using Angular 6+ — A primer on PRPL (which stands for Push, Render, Pre-cache, and Lazy-load) — this pattern is a relatively new technique used for building PWAs.
Vlado Tesanovic
Holly Schinsky recommends
Building Fluid Mobile Interfaces — How to create natural gestures and animations on iOS.
Nathan Gitter
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Build Awesome Progressive Web Apps with Ionic’s PWA Toolkit — Everything you need to build beautiful, fast, production-ready Progressive Web Apps.
Ionic framework

Holly Schinsky recommends
From a Simple SPA to a Multi-Functional PWA — A smart way to implement a “minimum full stack” using Vue / Nuxt / Serverless and Firebase.
Aleksey Azarov
Holly Schinsky recommends
Turning an Angular 6 App Into a Progressive Web App — How to add PWA capabilities to your Angular 6 app.
Yassine Benabbas
Holly Schinsky recommends
Designing for Mobile AR: Points of Interest — Tips and practical advice on getting started with creating augmented reality experiences.
Morgane Santos (Mapbox)
Brian Rinaldi recommends
5 Things Cordova Developers Need to Know When Switching to Xamarin
Paul Ballard