Mobile Dev Weekly December 7, 2018   #235
Holly Schinsky recommends
Google’s Cross-Platform Flutter UI Toolkit Hits Version 1.0 — Flutter, Google’s UI toolkit for building mobile Android and iOS applications from a single codebase, hit its version 1.0 release.
TechCrunch
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Elements To Ditch Or Repurpose On Mobile — Forget about constantly seeking the next big design technique in 2019, says Suzanne, and instead think about how you can clean up your existing mobile sites and set a better standard going forward.
Suzanne Scacca
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Tutorial: How to Create HLS Video Content — Learn how to get up and running with HLS video with this step-by-step guide.
Mux

Holly Schinsky recommends
Google Announces ‘Hummingbird’ Project to Bring Flutter Apps to The Web — Hummingbird is a new project from Google that allows you to bring your Flutter mobile apps to the web at large.
Kyle Bradshaw
Chris Brandrick recommends
A Vue from Ionic: Ionic Gains Support for Vue.js — Ionic is a popular collection of UI components for building high-quality, cross-platform apps both on the Web and natively. It’s historically been aimed at Angular developers but is extending support for Vue.js developers.
The Official Ionic Blog
Chris Brandrick recommends
What Is Flutter And Why Should You Care — With all the Flutter news landing this week, you may be after a refresher on just what Google’s open source SDK is and what it can do.
Florian Marcu
Peter Cooper recommends
How to Game the App Store — This isn’t a guide to follow(!) but instead a look at an approach which highlights how many poor quality apps are doing well on the App Store regardless.
David Barnard
Peter Cooper recommends
A Way to Simplify and Automate Measuring iOS Scroll Performance
Kyle Sherman
Brian Rinaldi recommends
It’s Not About The Device — A push to stop focusing on specific devices when designing layouts for the web but rather the conditions and features that the site needs to adapt to.
Ethan Marcotte
Holly Schinsky recommends
PWA vs Hybrid App vs Native: Choosing the Right Mobile App Tech — Why making the right choice of technology to use when building your mobile app makes all the difference.
Priyesh Patel
Holly Schinsky recommends
React Native Tools That You Can Use for Your Next Project — A list of React Native tools you can consider using to build your next mobile app.
Rajput Mehul
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Google Flutter Is Out of Beta — Here’s What It Means for Cross-Platform Apps — Some analysis and interviews with the Flutter team covering the significance of Flutter 1.0.
Dieter Bohn
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Low-Code Platforms: What Developers Think & Why — No/low-code platforms are being touted as the solution to increasing demand on dev teams. But how do devs really feel? We polled 5k+ devs to find out - here’s a summary of the results.
Progress Kinvey

Brian Rinaldi recommends
A Developer's Intro to Android — A pretty thorough beginner’s overview to some concepts behind developing native apps on Android.
James Porter
Brian Rinaldi recommends
The Case for PWAs — An excerpt from the Progressive Web Apps book that covers the business case for going the PWA route.
Jason Grigsby
Brian Rinaldi recommends
What's on the NativeScript Roadmap for 2019? — NativeScript Product Manager Vesi Radeva looks at what new features and improvements are in the works for next year.
NativeScript