#279 — October 25, 2019 |
Mobile Developer Weekly |
Chris Brandrick recommends
▶ The Mobile Web: MIA — In this video from the recent Fronteers conference Alex Russell, Software Engineer at Google, talks about responsive design and how it didn't play out as we might have hoped: “We made our viewports smaller, but forgot to reduce everything else”. Alex Russell |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
The Term "Responsive Web Design" Has Failed — In relation to the above video. Argues that responsive web design “has always focussed so heavily on the visual, dimensional, aspects of digital design” and that “as a movement, it’s failed to capture the true otherness of being on a small screen”. Frances Berriman |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
A Guide To Optimizing Images For Mobile — A look at how digital image optimization service ImageKit can help with reducing loading speeds. Suzanne Scacca |
Try the Fastest iOS CI/CD Solution for Free — Faster iOS CI/CD means greater productivity for your team and a better experience for your users. Automate your app’s CI/CD pipeline with Semaphore now and release 2x faster than with other platforms. Semaphore 2.0 sponsor |
Holly Schinsky recommends
Introducing Progressive Web Apps to Samsung Galaxy Store — …and how to add yours to the Samsung Galaxy Store. Ada Rose Cannon |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Android 9 Was Installed On Less Than A Quarter of The Ecosystem As Android 10 Launched — Google hopes Android 10 upgrades will happen ‘noticeably sooner this year’. Dieter Bohn |
Holly Schinsky recommends
Inside Adobe Spectrum, The Design System Making Apps Like Photoshop On IPad Possible — Adobe announces the public release of Spectrum, a comprehensive cross-platform design system with built-in accessibility, themes and internationalization. Michael Steeber |
Peter Cooper recommends
Six Reasons Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy — A former Apple software engineer shares some thoughts as to why this year’s release cycle has been particularly buggy. David Shayer |
Chris Brandrick recommends
How to Design Delightful Dark Themes — Tips on how to design dark themes that are “readable, balanced, and delightful”. Teresa Man |
Build Rich Group Chat with React and Ably — Use Ably’s APIs and the React framework to rapidly build an internet-scale chat app. Ably sponsor |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Making A PWA Out of The 1996 Space Jam Web Site — A fun recreation of the seemingly everlasting Space Jam website. You can see the end result here. Zach Leatherman |
Chris Brandrick recommends
An Interview with Svelte Native Creator David Pershouse — Svelte Native is a new way to create native apps using the Svelte framework along with NativeScript: Its creator talks about the inspiration behind it and future plans. Rob Lauer |
Peter Cooper recommends
Swiper: A Modern Mobile Touch Slider — Complete with hardware accelerated transitions and native-like behavior. Someone’s also made Tiny Swiper, a 2KB (gzipped) compatible clone, if you want something more lightweight. Vladimir Kharlampidi |
Chris Brandrick recommends
PyTorch Mobile: Exploring Facebook’s New Mobile Machine Learning Solution Austin Kodra |
Holly Schinsky recommends
Clean Up Dart & Flutter Projects with This IntelliJ Feature Modestas Valauskas |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Building an Ionic Multi App Project with Shared Angular Library Simon Grimm |
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