Mobile Dev Weekly January 25, 2019   #240
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Introducing Ionic 4: Ionic for Everyone — This release makes Ionic a set of web components using custom elements, allowing them to be more easily integrated into mobile, desktop and PWAs.
Max Lynch (Ionic)
Chris Brandrick recommends
Desktop to Mobile: Developing for Multiple Platforms without Losing Your Mind — Explores how you can share most of your code between desktop and mobile, make reasonable trade-offs between functionality, and deal with the challenges of supporting Android & iOS from the same code base.
Dirk Hohndel
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
My Wish List for Progressive Web Apps in 2019 — Some ideas on how to make PWAs a better app platform.
Maximiliano Firtman
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Why Founders Should Start With a Website, Not a Mobile App — The author explains their reasons why founders should almost always build a website first instead of a native app in the early days of a startup.
Julia Enthoven
Holly Schinsky recommends
The Most Important Points Nobody Told You Before You Started Building That App
Tomer Dicturel
Chris Brandrick recommends
Microsoft Is Killing Off Windows Phone — Microsoft says anyone using its smartphone platform, Windows 10 Mobile, should switch to Android or iPhone.
Todd Haselton
Brian Rinaldi recommends
How to Build a PWA, an iOS App, and an Android App From One Codebase — This is from a few months back but is a good look at how code sharing with both NativeScript and Angular works.
TJ VanToll
Peter Cooper recommends
The Shape Detection API: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Faces, and Barcodes — Runs through what the Shape Detection API can do, and where you may want to put it into action.
Thomas Steiner (Google Developers)
Chris Brandrick recommends
Introducing the NativeScript Keyboard Toolbar Plugin — A plugin for both Android and iOS that can surface contextual tools, hints and buttons above the software keyboard - similar to how to autosuggest works.
Eddy Verbruggen (NativeScript)
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Holly Schinsky recommends
The Secret Weapon to Learning CSS — A way to learn the mental patterns and key underpinnings behind CSS to help you achieve your design goals.
Robin Rendle
Holly Schinsky recommends
Bootstrapping a React Native Project in 2019 — Many things have changed in the React Native world when it comes to bootstrapping, read on to find out the latest.
William Candillon
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Seemingly Impossible Swift Programs — Attempting to implement some functions in Swift that should be ‘absolutely impossible’.
Brandon Williams
Peter Cooper recommends
A Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop — Allows you to embed a Flutter (Google’s UI framework for mobile apps) app on Windows, Mac, and Linux using the Go programming language.
Pierre Champion
Peter Cooper recommends
Shiny: Shiny Reflections for Mobile Websites — Add shiny reflections to page elements on devices that support DeviceMotion.
Rik Schennink
Chris Brandrick recommends
5G or Faux G? — A reality check on the promises of 5G.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols