Mobile Dev Weekly December 14, 2018   #236
Holly Schinsky recommends
Is There A Cold War Between Android and Chrome Because of PWAs? — A look at the potential friction between Chrome and Android’s handling of progressive web apps.
Maximiliano Firtman
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Hummingbird: Building Flutter for the Web — Hummingbird is a project announced at Flutter Live that compiles a version of Flutter code for the web. This post covers the architecture and current status of the project.
Yegor Jbanov
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Transactional Email SaaS for Busy Mobile Developers — Emailwizard is Saas which takes care of your application full email workflow: creating, testing and sending customized messages. Git integration, HTTP API and powerful templates makes it very easy to use. Give it a try today.
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Peter Cooper recommends
Traffic Acceleration with Cloudflare Mobile SDK — Cloudflare’s Mobile SDK provides mobile developers a variety of features to measure app networking performance and it has a new traffic acceleration feature to actually improve such performance.
Rustam Lalkaka (Cloudflare)
Brian Rinaldi recommends
The State of NativeScript in 2018 — Reflects on the improvements in the NativeScript framework that have happened during 2018.
Veselina Radeva
Chris Brandrick recommends
How to Handle Internet Connection Reachability in Swift
Neo Ighodaro
Peter Cooper recommends
The Importance Of Macro And Micro-Moment Design
Susan Weinschenk
Chris Brandrick recommends
How to Upload Images in a React Native App
Spencer Carli
Chris Brandrick recommends
Building an Interactive Voice App Using Custom Siri Shortcuts in iOS 12 — Siri Shortcut is a new API that Apple introduced in iOS 12 built on top of SiriKit framework.
Alfian Losari
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How to Build Your Own Android HQ Trivia App — How to create your own realtime, multiplayer quiz game for Android.
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Holly Schinsky recommends
Flutter Will Change Everything: A Follow Up — An opinionated piece, praising the benefits of Flutter as a ‘very productive’ tool for building UIs, compared to iOS and its (supposed) shortcomings.
Andrea Bizzotto
Holly Schinsky recommends
Google's Flutter Exits Beta, Could Bring Material Design To More Apps — Flutter is now public, allowing devs to use the same code for both iOS & Android and use robust design tools for building apps.
Rose Behar
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Flutter vs Xamarin Cross-Platform Mobile Development Compared — A look at features, strengths, and drawbacks of each - tl;dr “it depends”
AltexSoft Inc