#271 — August 30, 2019 |
Mobile Developer Weekly |
Peter Cooper recommends
How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage — Users spend a large proportion of their online time on mobile devices, or on untethered laptop computers. This post digs into factors that affect battery life, and how to make your pages more power efficient so that users can spend more time engaged with your content. Benjamin Poulain & Simon Fraser (WebKit) |
Chris Brandrick recommends
Bottom Navigation Pattern On Mobile Web Pages: A Better Alternative? — With bigger phones comes the need to adjust how we both build and design mobile sites. This article digs into how to create mobile navigation with lower user interaction costs. Arthur Leonov |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Should We Still Be Selling Responsive Web Design? — Frontend development has evolved so far past responsive web design that Jay thinks we should ditch the term and talk about intrinsic web design instead. Jay Freestone |
Image & Video Management Made for Mobile Developers — Simplify and automate the process of uploading, manipulating, optimizing, and delivering images and videos across every device at any bandwidth. Try Cloudinary. See how easy media management can be. Get your own free account today. Cloudinary sponsor |
Chris Brandrick recommends
A Quick Look At WeChat's Mini Programs — An interesting look at the endless amount of ‘mini’ apps available on the WeChat platform (popular in China) and the tech that powers them. Here’s a related article on the platforms dominance. Thomas Steiner |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Tips for Vue Developers Picking Up NativeScript — Moving from using Vue.js on the web to native iOS and Android is exciting, full of power, but also has its pitfalls. Learn some lessons from Raymond Camden as he describes some tips and tricks he learned on his journey with NativeScript-Vue. Raymond Camden |
Peter Cooper recommends
Gesture Navigation in Android: A Backstory — Android Q is moving over to a new gesture navigation system. Users will be able to navigate back (left/right edge swipe), to the home screen (swipe up from the bottom), and trigger the device assistant (swipe in from the bottom corners) with gestures rather than buttons. Allen Huang and Rohan Shah (Google) |
Holly Schinsky recommends
Three Easy Ways to Debug Network Requests in Flutter — Flutter has no built-in tooling to debug network requests, so here are some options to do just that. Flutter 360 |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
React Native Deep Linking Simplified — A deep link is simply an intent filter system that allows the user to access a certain activity in an Android app with a URL. Shad Mirza |
Chris Brandrick recommends
Quire: Building a Sophisticated Mobile App with Google’s Flutter — One developer shares their experience of making an Android app using Flutter, highlighting the good, the bad and the strengths and weaknesses encountered. Jerry Chen |
How to Adopt an Agile Testing Methodology — Get your complete guide to moving from traditional to an agile testing methodology for streamlined software delivery. Zephyr sponsor |
Za'e Johnson recommends
Designing Dark Mode — A look at how the team at Microsoft are crafting dark mode experiences across Outlook and Office 365 mobile apps. Jon Friedman |
Chris Brandrick recommends
Choosing Between React Native and Flutter Andrei Calazans |
Holly Schinsky recommends
Building A Calculator App with Dart and Flutter Kenneth Reilly |
Chris Brandrick recommends
Tracking The Performance of Complex Components in React Native Miguel Albrecht |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
pwa-asset-generator: A PWA Splash Screen and Icon Generator Önder Ceylan |
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