#245 — March 1, 2019 |
Mobile Developer Weekly |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Launching Flutter 1.2 at Mobile World Congress — This release focuses on stability and performance improvements, the quality of the core framework, visual polish/finish and tweaks to the functionality of existing widgets, new web-based tooling and more. |
Peter Cooper recommends
Engineering Uber Beacon: Matching Riders and Drivers in 24-bit RGB Colors — Whatever you think about Uber, this is a really neat piece of user experience for Uber’s passengers, and it’s interesting to hear how Uber’s engineering team makes it work. Kevin Babcock (Uber) |
Watch that TalkBack. Free Cheatsheet — Let us guide you through the complexities of Google’s screen reader. Big Nerd Ranch sponsor |
Holly Schinsky recommends
Understanding the Ionic Development Ecosystem: Part 1 — An overview of the Ionic Framework, its ecosystem of technologies and how to get started with Ionic based on their web development background. Part two is here. Matt Netkow |
Peter Cooper recommends
Developing Fast and Reliable iOS Builds at Pinterest — “After introducing remote build caching, build times dropped under a minute and as low as 30 seconds since we don’t need to rebuild anything that has been built on any machine.” Rahul Malik (Pinterest) |
Chris Brandrick recommends
A Guide to Debugging Your NativeScript Plugins — If you find yourself debugging the source of your NativeScript app/plugins, then you’ll want to know about the new ‘nativescript-dev-debugging’ plugin. Vladimir Amiorkov |
Holly Schinsky recommends
How to Successfully Submit An App to The App Store for Review — Apple has tough requirements for app submission, this article outlines how to successfully meet these requirements and make your own app submission process go smoothly. Irina Bulygina |
Za'e Johnson recommends
Choosing React Native For Your Mobile Tech Stack — This is certainly aimed more at business folks but does a pretty thorough job at presenting the case for React Native, compares it to other toolkits (e.g. NativeScript and Flutter), explains who’s already using it, why, etc. IdeaMotive |
Chris Brandrick recommends
South Korea Moves Up 5G Mobile Network Launch to March — Major carriers speed up plans after Samsung reveals a 5G S10. Nikkei Asian Review |
Focus on Innovation, Not Infrastructure — Leverage open-source frameworks to build cross platform, native iOS, native Android and web apps with little or no code. Find out more. Progress Kinvey sponsor |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Intercept HTTPS Traffic On A Android Emulator — How to intercept HTTP/HTTPS traffic from an Android emulator by using a MITM (Man In The Middle) proxy. Oliver Nybroe |
Holly Schinsky recommends
Make Draggable UIViewController with Swipe Cards using Custom Transitions in iOS — How to implement interactive, distinguished interfaces with UIKit. Serhii Kharauzov |
Chris Brandrick recommends
UX Screenshots: A Digital Archive of Mobile Apps — A growing collection of shots, showing how popular apps onboard new users. UX Screenshots |