#303 — May 1, 2020

Read on the Web

Mobile Developer Weekly

Peter Cooper recommends

AMP Introduces 'User-Friendly' Client-Side Content Encryption Support — AMP aims to be all about providing speed to mobile consumers of content but paywalls just, well, get in the way. So Google and the AMP folks have come up with a way where protected content can be served and unlocked client-side for more performance. Cynically, of course, you could consider this yet another form of DRM for Web content..

The AMP Blog

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Introducing Upstate: Simplified State Management for Flutter — How to use Upstate, a new state management library for Flutter.

Jonathan Aird

Cover Your Apps. Auth Built For <Devs> — Spend less time on authentication and authorization and more time developing your awesome mobile app. Download our community edition for free.

FusionAuth sponsor

Brian Rinaldi recommends

▶  Responsive, Performant Images for the Web — This session from the online PerfMatters conference looks at optimizing images for the web.

Sia Karamalegos

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Notification Services in Android O and Above — How to create app notifications in Android.

Priyank Kumar

Holly Schinsky recommends

How to Build a Flutter App Bar Dashboard in 10 Minutes or Less — A quick look at building Flutter widgets in just a few simple steps.

DLT Labs

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Android Obfuscation — A look at how to modify an Android executable so that it is no longer useful to a hacker but remains fully functional.

Supun Ishara Weerasekara

Chris Brandrick recommends

Essential Animated Effects in Mobile Apps

Nick Babich

Brian Rinaldi recommends

How to Add Authentication to React Native in Three Steps Using Firebase

Said Hayani

Faster CI/CD for All Your Software Projects Using Buildkite — See how Shopify scaled from 300 to 1800 engineers while keeping their build times under 5 minutes.

Buildkite sponsor

Holly Schinsky recommends

Visualizing Flutter Bloc — A visualized look at the Bloc pattern for state management in your Flutter apps.

Timothy Stepro

Chris Brandrick recommends

An Introduction to react-native-maps — This library makes it easy to build maps into your app and leverage your users’ location data to create exciting new features and services.

Gaurav Singhal

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Why Amazon Got Out of The Apple App Store Tax, and Why Other Developers Won’t

Dieter Bohn

Peter Cooper recommends

React Native Socials: Embed Posts From Popular Social Networks in Your App — A React Native library (still at version 0, so use caution) to display posts from social networks, such as Twitter and Instagram, in your mobile app.

Pierre Caporossi

Chris Brandrick recommends

Draftbit: Visually Build Native Mobile Apps From Your Browser — This is still in private beta, but looks interesting.

Draftbit, inc.

🕰 ICYMI (Some older stuff that's worth checking out...)