#248 — March 22, 2019

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Mobile Developer Weekly
Cross-platform mobile news, views, and developments

Peter Cooper recommends

Google to Offer Android Users Browser Choice — This will involve asking users of existing and new Android devices (in Europe) which browser and search apps they would like to use.

Peter-Paul Koch

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Svelte Native Framework — A framework (built on NativeScript) for building native mobile apps. Unlike React-Native and Nativescript-Vue, which do the bulk of their work on device, Svelte Native shifts that work into a compile step that happens on build.

halfnelson

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Cloudinary sponsor

Chris Brandrick recommends

How to Choose the Right React Native Navigation Library — A look at some possible solutions to make the best navigation experience for users.

Youssouf El Azizi

Holly Schinsky recommends

Flutter Widgets: The Basics — Understanding the basics of widgets, the core building blocks used to build user interfaces in Flutter.

Claudia

Brian Rinaldi recommends

React Native Team Surveys Developers' Pain Points — A look at the results of a survey of React Native developers about what they dislike about React Native.

Bruno Couriol

Chris Brandrick recommends

Kotlin Sequences: An Illustrated Guide — Easy-to-understand diagrams that demonstrate the difference between regular collection operations and sequence operations.

Dave Leeds

Za'e Johnson recommends

▶  When Should You Use A Progressive Web App? — This brief video (6 minutes) outlines the business case for PWAs and gives an overview of their features.

Google Chrome Developers

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Building iOS Apps On Azure Pipelines — Focuses on utilizing Azure Pipelines to set up a continuous integration process for a native app.

Ariya Hidayat

An Adventure in OpenAPI V3 Code Generation — Building SDKs by hand can be a slow & painstaking process. Read about the challenges faced when we explored code generation while building our new Python SDK.

Mux sponsor

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Sophisticated Partitioning with CSS Grid — A detailed case study looking at creating compelling grid patterns by harnessing specificity.

Rob Weychert

Chris Brandrick recommends

NativeScript Team Share Tips and Tricks — Some useful and/or little known tips and tricks that might aid NativeScript development.

NativeScript

Brian Rinaldi recommends

React Native Offline — A project for dealing with offline/online connectivity in a React Native app.

Raúl Gómez Acuña

Chris Brandrick recommends

A Look At An Original iPhone Prototype — An interesting bare-bones look at how the iPhone started out.

Tom Warren