#249 — March 29, 2019

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

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.

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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