#244 — February 22, 2019

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Mobile Developer Weekly
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Brian Rinaldi recommends

Announcing the Ionic React Beta — The Ionic React beta is now available, it includes around 70 components intended to cover the majority of use cases for building a mobile app.

Josh Thomas (Ionic)

Chris Brandrick recommends

Changes to Authentication for iOS Developers — Starting February 27, 2019: "In an effort to keep your account more secure, two-factor authentication will be required for Account Holders of a developer program to sign in to their Apple Developer account".

Apple

The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019 — How much latency is acceptable? Learn about the use cases and types of experiences which commonly have latency challenges and what's acceptable for each.

Mux sponsor

Chris Brandrick recommends

How Do iOS Developers Feel About In-App Analytics? — App analytics frameworks (that collect screen recordings and event data) have been in the news lately, with Apple telling developers they must disclose the use of such frameworks to users. Dave Verwer of iOS Dev Weekly polled readers on what they think about such frameworks, and these are the results.

iOS Dev Weekly

Holly Schinsky recommends

Multi Vs Cross-Platform in The Age of Flutter — Flutter has brought more attention back to cross-platform mobile app technology, read on to find out why.

Jasper Morgan

Peter Cooper recommends

An Introduction To WebBluetooth“Thanks to WebBluetooth, we can now build PWAs that can control your lights, drive a car or even control a drone.”

Niels Leenheer

Chris Brandrick recommends

New Year, New Samsung Internet - 9.2 Beta Released — Version 9.2 of the Samsung Internet Browser introduces the WebAPK. This APK will result in progressive web apps being treated more like a fully-fledged app by the OS.

Daniel Appelquist

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Automated Testing for Mobile Apps — Some of the basics of automated UI testing for Xamarin apps.

Sean Sparkman

Holly Schinsky recommends

Lessons I Learned While Building in React Native — A developer outlines some important lessons learned while building her first app with React Native.

Amanda Bullington

Want the Best Way to Store and Serve Images and Videos? Try Cloudinary. Get It for Free — Join a community of over 400K web and mobile developers managing their media with Cloudinary. Get your own free account.

Cloudinary sponsor

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Responsive Design for Mobile and Web Development — A look at how the future of responsive design goes beyond screen size to location, time, light level and more.

Una Kravets

Peter Cooper recommends

Consider gRPC for Mobile APIs — gRPC is a popular and open RPC framework. This article looks at how it thrives in an Android development environment.

Skip Hovsmith

Holly Schinsky recommends

Best Practices for A Clean and Performant Angular App

Vamsi Vempati

Brian Rinaldi recommends

How to Avoid Failing at Mobile Test Automation

Ben Linders