#249 — March 29, 2019 |
Mobile Developer Weekly |
Chris Brandrick recommends
Swift 5 Released: "A Major Milestone in The Evolution of The Language" — The Swift runtime is now included in current and future versions of Apple’s operating systems. Swift 5 also introduces new capabilities, including a reimplementation of String, enforcement of exclusive access to memory during runtime, new data types, and support for dynamically callable types. Ted Kremenek (Apple) |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
NativeScript 5.3 Now Available — This latest release brings hot module replacement out of beta among other features. NativeScript |
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
Google Is Rolling Out AMP for Gmail — A year after announcing AMP support for Gmail, Google is now rolling out a beta. It will let users shop and fill out forms without leaving the inbox. Natt Garun |
Holly Schinsky recommends
Understanding State Management, & Why You Never Will — State management and how you might want to approach it in your Flutter apps. Matt Carroll |
Chris Brandrick recommends
What’s New On iOS 12.2 for Progressive Web Apps — Addresses two of the “most annoying problems we’ve been dealing with” when it comes to PWAs on iOS - reload effect and OAuth logins. Here’s a detailed dive into everything the 12.2 release means for PWAs. Maximiliano Firtman |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
The Future of Cross-Platform is Native — Makes the case for a native cross-platform future by comparing Xamarin, React Native and Flutter to Kotlin. Justin Mancinelli |
Za'e Johnson recommends
Google's Stadia Could Make App Stores Obsolete — “If game distribution escapes the app stores, then the entire mobile advertising ecosystem could become upended” Mobile Dev Memo |
Chris Brandrick recommends
AWS App Mesh: Application-Level Networking for All Your Services — A new service mesh that allows you to monitor, capture and control communications (metrics, logs, and traces) across services. Amazon Web Services |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
▶ Why Build Progressive Web Apps: Track Offline, or It Didn't Happen — How to add offline analytics tracking to your PWA to track events while the user is offline. Google Chrome Developers |
Progress Named a Strong Performer in Forrester Wave — Progress scores high in mobile apps, web user experience, UX & AI dev in Forrester eval. Progress Kinvey sponsor |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Can You Make More Money With A Mobile App Or A PWA? — When looking at how much it actually costs to build and maintain a mobile app, PWAs seem to be the winner for most. Suzanne Scacca |
Holly Schinsky recommends
UI Design Best Practices for Better Scannability Nemanja Banjanin |
Chris Brandrick recommends
AWS App Mesh: Application-Level Networking for All Your Services — A new service mesh that allows you to monitor, capture and control communications (metrics, logs, and traces) across services. Amazon Web Services |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
ReactNativeScript: A React Plugin for NativeScript — Note: This is still a work in progress. Jamie Birch |