Mobile Dev Weekly August 15, 2018   #220
Chris Brandrick recommends
Differences Between Designing Native iOS Apps and Native Android Apps — To create the best native app design, you should bear in mind the differences between the two popular platforms.
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Za'e Johnson recommends
Next Week: This.JavaScript's 'State of Mobile' Event — On August 21 (next Tuesday), you can join a free, online event featuring updates on prominent technologies like NativeScript, Ionic, PWA, React Native, and Cordova.
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Apple’s Password-Less Future Is Strong Passwords — If you’d ask me which tech giant would make an incompatible choice to force the whole industry to eventually follow suit, I’d say…
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
The Generic Sensor API — Exploring the Generic Sensor API, which aims to make a consistent JavaScript API across a variety of different sensors (most often common on mobile devices) to make it easier to support new ones on the Web.
Ruadhan O'Donoghue
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Google AMP — A 70% Drop in Our Conversion Rate — The author explains that his experience isn’t universal and that Google is addressing some of the issues, but shares his unhappy experiences implementing AMP.
Nathan Kontny
Chris Brandrick recommends
Popular Websites That May Fail in Mobile-First Indexing — A look at some popular websites that would fail if mobile-first indexing was applied to them and the reasons why.
Tomasz Rudzki
Brian Rinaldi recommends
React Native JavaScript Framework Stumbles — A look at some of the issues that have pushed companies like AirBnb and Udacity away, but also the ways Facebook and companies like Walmart and Discord hope to fix it.
Paul Krill
Peter Cooper recommends
Apple's App Review Team Rejects ~36% of Submissions — An interesting tidbit from Apple when answering questions to a committee about its app review processes.
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Holly Schinsky recommends
Browser Painting and Considerations for Web Performance — An explanation and case study on the impact the browser paint process has on web performance and why you should be mindful of it.
Georgy Marchuk
Chris Brandrick recommends
Exploring Image Keyboard Support on Android
Joe Birch (Buffer)
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Building an Ionic Geolocation Tracker with Google Maps and Track Drawing
Simon Grimm
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Google Flutter From Scratch: Grids, Lists, and Data Sources — Using Flutter’s various widgets with local and remote data sources.
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How to Reliably Stream Video Regardless of the Number of Gs
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Chris Brandrick recommends
Android Developer's Guide to Machine Learning with MLKit and TensorFlow Lite
Rebecca Franks
Peter Cooper recommends
SuperSlide.js: A Smooth, GPU Accelerated Sliding Menu for Your Next PWA
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Holly Schinsky recommends
The Future of the iOS WebView in Adobe PhoneGap — With the deprecation of the UIWebView around the corner, PhoneGap/Cordova developers should be aware of the upcoming changes and plans for transitioning to the WKWebView component.
Shazron Abdullah
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Targeting Android Devices Based on OS Version — A good look at stats that paint a picture of the current state of Android fragmentation.
Tomas Trnka