#304 — May 8, 2020

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Mobile Developer Weekly

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Why A Small Facebook Bug Wreaked Havoc On Some of The Most Popular iOS Apps — Any app using the Facebook SDK in question was affected, which, more importantly, highlighted some potentially negative aspects of using the SDK that were not always obvious.

Nick Statt

Brian Rinaldi recommends

An Introduction To React With Ionic — Explores using Ionic with the React integration to build an app — plus a look at how to integrate native capabilities into an app with Capacitor and generate builds for a native platform.

Jerry Navi

Slow and Expensive CI Build? — Save more than 150% by switching to faster pipelines on Semaphore. Ship your updates 2x faster.

Semaphore sponsor

Chris Brandrick recommends

Apple’s Online-Only WWDC 2020 Starts June 22 — Yup, no surprise really, but this year’s WWDC event is going digital.

Samuel Axon

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Android 11: Beta Plans — Google released a fourth Developer Preview and moved Beta 1 to June 3.

Dave Burke

Holly Schinsky recommends

React Philosophy For Beginners — Important concepts every React developer should know and understand.

ThankGod Ukachukwu

Chris Brandrick recommends

Native-App Like Sharing in A Few Lines of JS — You can use the Web Share API to easily share links, text and files.

Addy Osmani on Twitter

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Adding 'Sign in with Apple' to your iOS App — Learn about ‘Sign in with Apple’ and how to implement it in your iOS app and backend.

Matheus Cardoso

Holly Schinsky recommends

Firebase Hosting for Flutter Web Projects in Four Easy Steps — A look at how to set up hosting for your Flutter projects quickly.

Mahtab Tadayon

Chris Brandrick recommends

Mobile First — This 2011 book from respected digital product leader Luke Wroblewski has just been made available for free — yes it’s a bit old now, but the concepts and theory remain foundational and true.

A Book Apart

Launch Scalable iOS/Swift, Android, React Chat In Days — Stream makes it easy with SDKs and Chat React UI Components. Stream powers Feeds and Chat for over 500 million end-users.

Stream sponsor

Chris Brandrick recommends

Project Golden Gate — This work-in-progress framework connects wearables and other IoT devices to mobile phones, tablets and PCs with an IP-based protocol stack over Bluetooth Low Energy.

Fitbit

Holly Schinsky recommends

How to Create Your Own Pull to Refresh / Custom Refresh Indicator Widget in Flutter

Kamil Klyta

Chris Brandrick recommends

How Apple Reinvented The Cursor for iPad

Matthew Panzarino