#266 — July 26, 2019

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Brian Rinaldi recommends

Designing And Building A Progressive Web Application Without A Framework — The first in a three part series looking at designing and building a simple Progressive Web Application called ‘In/Out’, built without a framework. You can view the end result here.

Ben Frain

Peter Cooper recommends

▶  The Modern PWA Cheat Sheet — A valuable talk covering the fast-moving changes of all things PWAs. Covers the app lifecycle, desktop challenges, install experience, distribution and more.

Maximiliano Firtman

Peter Cooper recommends

How Uber Quietly Redesigned Its Interface for The Rest of The World — As Uber expanded into new markers it faced a problem: The design that helped make it a success wasn’t proving as effective.

Katharine Schwab

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Chris Brandrick recommends

▶  Bringing SwiftUI to Your App — A fast-paced talk looking at how to get the most out of Apple’s new Swift-friendly declarative UI framework and the impact it has on how you envision and architect your app.

Danie Steinberg

Za'e Johnson recommends

A Timeline of iOS Accessibility: It Started with 36 Seconds — A thorough history of iOS accessibility features through the years, starting off at WWDC 2009.

Shelly Brisbin

Holly Schinsky recommends

The Challenges of Making A True Offline First App — Strategies to help you deal with the challenges you may encounter when building an offline-first app. This related video from the recent ADDC conference is also worth a watch.

Idea Growr

Chris Brandrick recommends

▶  Good Rules for Bad Apps — Explores some of “the top mistakes that every one of us is doing” while building apps.

Shem Magnezi

Brian Rinaldi recommends

How to Use Flutter for Hybrid Development: Alibaba’s Open Source Code Instance — FlutterBoost is Alibaba's Flutter plugin that enables hybrid integration of Flutter into existing native apps.

Alibaba Tech

Holly Schinsky recommends

A Complete Guide to Flutter Animations and All Its Parts — A look at animations in Flutter, how they work and how to make them a tiny bit more manageable in code.

Dane Mackier

Chris Brandrick recommends

Where Are All the Mobile Developers? — Job openings for mobile developers are booming while interest from job seekers trails off, says a new study from Indeed.

Tekla S. Perry (IEE Spectrum)

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Chris Brandrick recommends

Implementing Facebook Login On Android with React Native and Firebase

Krissanawat Kaewsanmuang

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Understanding Native, WebView, and Hybrid Templates for Android Apps

Lorca Lokassa Sa

Holly Schinsky recommends

Understanding The Service Worker Life Cycle

Vipul Nema

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