#252 — April 19, 2019

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

Peter Cooper recommends

Instant-loading AMP Pages From Your Own Domain — Google are rolling out support for ‘signed exchanges’ in Google Search’s AMP web results. This enables displaying the publisher’s own domain when AMP content is loaded via search results.

Google

Chris Brandrick recommends

Kotlin Multiplatform for iOS Developers — Kotlin Multiplatform makes it easy to create cross-platform components. This tutorial leads you through all the steps required to set up Android Studio to build a framework you can import into Xcode.

Ben Whitley

Get the Fastest App Deployments — Unlike most Continuous Integration (CI) solutions, Buddy only re-builds the parts of your application that have changed and deploys your updates in seconds to any app store. Start building better apps faster with Buddy.

Buddy sponsor

Holly Schinsky recommends

Don’t Start React with React Native — Highlights some problems that developers could face “should they decide to switch from React to React Native or vice versa”.

Rafael Hovhannisyan

Za'e Johnson recommends

Client-Side Storage in NativeScript Apps — Shows the variety of ways you can store client-side data in your NativeScript app.

Raymond Camden

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Engineering Dumb: Modern Mobile Thin Clients — A talk about building a complex feature at OkCupid that demonstrates a few design patterns to create remotely configurable layouts and behavior on-the-fly.

Brandon John-Freso

Chris Brandrick recommends

Apple Adds New ‘Confirm Subscription’ Step for In-App Subscription Signups On iOS

Chance Miller

Holly Schinsky recommends

Progressive Web Applications & Internet of Things — The first part in a series on using IoT with PWAs.

Nicholas Herriot

Free Online Talk: Leadership Training for Engineers 4/23 — Join Big Nerd Ranch and guest speakers.

Big Nerd Ranch sponsor

Chris Brandrick recommends

The BBC and 5G — A series of articles on how the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is investigating the potential of 5G mobile tech.

BBC Research & Development

Chris Brandrick recommends

Down The Rabbit Hole of iOS Design Patterns — Thoughts on alternatives to Apple’s Model-View-Controller design pattern.

Benoit Pasquier

Brian Rinaldi recommends

How to Add Flutter to Your Production Android App

TruongSinh Tran-Nguyen

Holly Schinsky recommends

How to Create A Background Video in React Native

Said Hayani

Chris Brandrick recommends

Apple Reportedly Spending $500 Million to Fund Dev of 100+ Games for Its Arcade Subscription Service

Benjamin Mayo

Za'e Johnson recommends

10 Heuristic Principles for Mobile Interfaces

Jordan DeVos