Mobile Dev Weekly October 5, 2018   #227
Peter Cooper recommends
Opera Introduces Opera Touch to Challenge Safari on iOS — Another new mobile browser from Opera - this time the focus is on being small, clean and fast.
Maciej Kocemba (Opera)
Brian Rinaldi recommends
How The World's Top Websites Serve Mobile Visitors — “We continue to see the vast majority of the Alexa 100 top sites use server-side device detection to segment users and optimize the experience for mobile visitors”
Martin Clancy
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
Microsoft Announces App Mirroring to Let You Use Any Android App on Windows 10 — While there have been ways to run Android apps on desktop operating systems for a while, this is an interesting official step to bridging Windows 10 and the wider mobile ecosystem.
Nick Statt (The Verge)
Holly Schinsky recommends
Porting a 75,000 Line Native iOS App to Flutter — A developer documents their experiences porting a large mobile app from Native iOS to Flutter.
Gary Hunter
Chris Brandrick recommends
Build Your First AR Webapp in Under 10 Minutes using ARjs — Discover how you can create your first augmented reality webapp using ARjs and deploy it so it can be accessible from your phone.
Bastien Teissier
Peter Cooper recommends
Apple’s Use of Swift in iOS 12 — “Apple is slowly using Swift in more apps with each new iOS release, but the number of these apps is still really limited.”
Alexandre Colucci
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Creating Layouts with CSS Grid — Here, Tiffany Brown covers grid formatting context, explicit versus implicit grids, creating flexible grids with flex units, using the grid-template shorthand property, and more.
SitePoint
Holly Schinsky recommends
How to Structure Your Project and Manage Static Resources in React Native
Khoa Pham
Holly Schinsky recommends
Progressive Image Loading in React Native — Learn how to add progressive image loading to your React Native apps to handle variable connection speeds.
Spencer Carli
Brian Rinaldi recommends
How to Create a PWA Game using Preact in 5 Steps
Seif Ghezala
Holly Schinsky recommends
Android Top Image Cropper Libraries — A list of image cropping libraries to aid in your Android mobile app development.
Amit Shekhar
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How to Choose the Best Framework for Mobile Development — There are hundreds of different platforms—and nobody knows which are great. Make smarter choices about how you build apps with this eBook.
Progress Kinvey

Za'e Johnson recommends
'How We Boosted The Performance of Our React Native App' — Work done to improve the UI responsiveness of a React Native app.
Juanjo Ramos
Chris Brandrick recommends
Should Android Developers Learn Kotlin or Java? — Given that Kotlin is now declared as an official langauge for Android app development, should new Android developers learn Kotlin or Java?
Javin Paul
Peter Cooper recommends
BulletinBoard: General-Purpose Contextual Cards for iOS — An iOS library that generates and manages contextual cards displayed at the bottom of the screen.
Alexis Aubry
Holly Schinsky recommends
Playing with Navigation Architecture Components — Using the Android Navigation Architecture Components to simplify the implementation of the navigation in your Android apps.
Joao Alves