Mobile Dev Weekly November 9, 2018   #232
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NativeScript 5.0 Released — Learn all about the developer-focused productivity improvements like Hot Module Replacement, a new interactive CLI, and the tns preview command (allowing you to start developing for iOS on Windows).
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How to Design 'Scannable' App Screenshots — App screenshots are the second reason users install an app, after ratings, learn how to ensure you’re creating the best ones for your apps.
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What Is a Video API and When Do You Need One? — Ten quick answers to what Mux Video is, what it’s not, and how to use it.
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The End Is Near for Mobile Apps? — Controversial! Some interesting reasons why the app ecosystem may disappear in the next three to seven years, according to the author.
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Building an iOS App Without Xcode's Build System — A very thorough and accessible walthrough of replicating the iOS app building process ‘manually’. Of course, after you try it, you might be ready to head back to Xcode ;-)
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Pitching Flutter to Your Company or Client — The business case for Flutter and why you should be pitching it to your company and clients.
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Using `calc()` to Change The Height of a Hero Component — For situations where you need to mix relative units and pixels. For example: calc(24px + (18 - 24)*(100vw - 400px)/(1200 - 400)).
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Android: A 10-Year Visual History — A deep dive down memory lane into every version of Android.
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Chrome Will Soon Ad-Block An Entire Website If It Shows Abusive Ads — “With Chrome 71, Google is stepping up its fight against the internet’s abusive ads problem by blocking every ad on a site that persistently shows them.”
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How To Build a Virtual Reality Model with Real-Time Cross-Device Preview — A walkthrough of programming three-dimensional objects and adding simple interactions.
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Server-Side Swift: Making Canopy — The first in a series looking at using server-side Swift to build a mobile app.
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Building Shopify's Point of Sale App for Android Using MVVM — Shopify’s Android app uses a Model-View-ViewModel pattern based on Google’s App Architecture Guide as announced last year at Google I/O 2017.
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Shop Like a Developer with Manifold 2.0 — Everything you need to discover and experiment with that hot new cloud service–because who impulse buys infrastructure?
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Ionic Release: v4 Beta 15 Released
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Panels: A Framework to Easily Add Sliding Panels to Your iOS Apps — Built in Swift. There’s a tutorial on how to get started too.
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Progressive Web Apps vs Native Apps — When and Which to Choose — Some pros and cons on when to consider a PWA versus native development for an app.
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