Mobile Dev Weekly January 18, 2019   #239
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Check If Your Native App Is Installed With getInstalledRelatedApps — This in-development API checks if the user has your native app installed, allowing you to prevent duplicate notifications or remove app install prompts.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
It's Time to Use Swift Package Manager — The author makes the case for using SPM, starting with what’s changed, potential downsides, and a look at it in action.
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Peter Cooper recommends
A Thought Experiment: What if Flutter Were Built in Go? — Flutter, Google’s mobile development framework, is written in Dart, but what if it were written in Go? Some practical thinking on the possibilities here.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
Facebook Open-Sources Spectrum 1.0.0 for Better Mobile Image Production — To make the mobile image upload process more efficient, Facebook are releasing Spectrum 1.0.0, an image processing library for both Android and iOS.
Daniel Hugenroth
Chris Brandrick recommends
Spectrum: Making Mobile Image Processing Simple — As mentioned above, this is a cross-platform client-side image transcoding library from Facebook. It can be integrated into an Android or iOS project to “efficiently perform common image operations”.
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Holly Schinsky recommends
10 Best Tips for Learning Vue from Vue Masters — Six Vue experts talk about what they wish they would have known when first starting out.
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
Creating A File Storage Mobile App with NativeScript 5 — A step-by-step tutorial for building a demo app.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
TensorFlow Lite Now Faster with Mobile GPUs
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
Styling The React Native Way — Explores ways to style a React Native app by getting some hands-on experience and learning tips along the way.
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How Progressive Web Apps Could Change the Mobile Landscape
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
Why Progressive Web Apps Are the Next Growth Opportunity — The author cites the low cost of adoption and the ability to adapt quickly outside of the closed marketplaces as key benefits.
Bryan Lee
Chris Brandrick recommends
A Deep Dive Into Flutter’s Accessibility Widgets — A look at Flutter’s various accessibility widgets and how they function.
Muhammed Salih Guler
Brian Rinaldi recommends
How to Do This in Flutter? — A cheat sheet for React Native devs, offering Flutter alternatives to familiar concepts.
Andrei Lesnitsky
Peter Cooper recommends
Bagel: A Little Native Network Debugging Tool for iOS — As long as your iOS devices and Mac are on the same network, you can use this to view the network traffic of your apps separated by device.
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