#296 — March 6, 2020 |
Mobile Developer Weekly |
Chris Brandrick recommends
Project LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger to Be Faster, Smaller, and Simpler — The new version of Facebook’s popular Messenger app has a completely new codebase, resulting in the app now being a 30MB download versus its previous 130MB weight. Here’s a behind the scenes look at the process that went into the updated app. Facebook Engineering |
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Google Bans Hundreds of Android Apps From The Play Store for Obnoxious Ads — Some 600 Android apps have been removed due to interfering with the user experience (and in some cases tricking users to tap accidentally). Kim Lyons |
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Apple Now Lets Apps Send Ads in Push Notifications — Ads in your notifications have long been banned on iOS — that’s changing. Jacob Kastrenakes |
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React Native Push Notifications: A Guide for Rookies and Techies — A guide on the first assumptions vs the reality of mobile notifications behavior in React Native projects. Andréas Hanss |
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Onboarding Thousands of Users with React Native — A retrospective (from Coinbase) for companies that are considering React Native. Ian Ownbey, Nick Cherry and Jacob Thornton |
Check Now to See If Your .TECH Domain Is Available — .TECH is the most definitive domain extension for the tech industry with the likes of Intel, CES and Viacom using it. Secure your online tech namespace before it’s gone. .TECH domains sponsor |
Holly Schinsky recommends
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Pep: Turn Your Website Into a Fast, Installable PWA Instantly — Ostensibly can be done using a single line of code. Free for sites up to 10k page views per month and there are paid plans after that. pep.dev |
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An Open-Source Tool to Quickly Preview All iOS Keyboards Filip Němeček |
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