#311 — June 26, 2020 |
Mobile Developer Weekly |
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 Chris Brandrick recommendsSafari 14 Beta Release Notes — Revealed at this week’s WWDC, Safari 14 will ship alongside iOS 14 later this year. It will add support for WebP images, HDR video playback, HTTP/3, the Apple |
 Peter Cooper recommendsPodcasts for the Next Billion — Have you heard of KaiOS? It’s a Linux-based mobile operating system forked from Firefox OS and commonly used on lower powered phones in developing markets. Here, a developer explains the process of creating the first podcasting app for an OS being used by millions. Thomas Barrasso |
New: Learn How Intercom Reduced Test Times by 85% 🚀 — Read the case study to learn how Intercom reduced test times while deploying ~150 times per day across multiple apps. Buildkite’s self-hosted agents work with all languages, source code tools & platforms. Buildkite sponsor |
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Chris Brandrick recommends What’s New in The iOS 14 SDK — Catch up on the broad changes (including widgets, SwiftUI, ML, AR, and more), or get a more detailed look via the iOS and iPadOS 14 beta release notes. Apple Developer |
 Brian Rinaldi recommendsBringing NativeScript to Ionic — Work is underway on making NativeScript embeddable, bringing together cross-platform frameworks. NativeScript |
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Chris Brandrick recommends ▶ Catch Up On Ioniconf 2020 — The very first Ionic conference took place earlier this week. Here’s the event in full on YouTube (it starts about half hour in), and you can take a look over the sessions/schedule right here. Ionic |
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Chris Brandrick recommends Looking Back At Five Years of AMP — It has been five years since the first line of AMP code was written. Here Malte Url, reflects and looks ahead at future plans for the open-source project. The AMP Blog |
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Chris Brandrick recommends ▶ WWDC 2020: Explore App Clips — Similar to Android’s Instant Apps, iOS will soon have support for a slimmed down ‘mini’ app experience. Apple Developer |
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Peter Cooper recommends You Download The App and It Doesn't Work — Aims to point out the ‘uneven nature’ by which Apple implements its rules on subscriptions. Lanny Bose |
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Chris Brandrick recommends AWS Launches Amazon Honeycode, A No-Code Mobile and Web App Builder — AWS announced the beta launch of Amazon Honeycode earlier this week. It’s a new, fully managed low-code/no-code dev tool. Frederic Lardinois |
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Brian Rinaldi recommends Using GitHub Actions to Sign Your Android App David González |
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Chris Brandrick recommends Google Is Launching A Way to Buy Android App Subscriptions Outside of The App Itself Sarah Perez |
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No More Rework, Bug-Free Code on the First Commit. DeepCode — Break the endless cycle of rework by using the best tool money can buy…for free. DeepCode is an AI powered static analysis. Test it. DeepCode.AI Powered Analysis sponsor |
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Peter Cooper recommends Getting Started with Swift on AWS Lambda — You might associate Swift more with building mobile apps but you can use it to build serverless functions too, especially now that there’s a Swift AWS Lambda runtime. Here, learn how to create and deploy your first Lambda function in Swift, using SwiftPM and Docker. Fabian Fett |
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Brian Rinaldi recommends Unit Testing Custom View in Android — Proposes a method for unit testing an Android View. Ilia Kosynkin |
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Chris Brandrick recommends Today I Learned That HTML May Not Do Much On Mobile Browsers — Despite being ‘fully supported’ there is no way to view Chris Siebenmann |
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Brian Rinaldi recommends Akshay Rana |