#339 — January 22, 2021

Read on the Web

📱 Mobile Dev Weekly

Chris Brandrick recommends

Progressive Web Apps in 2021 — The 2020 version of this blog post was our top shared link last year, and now Maximiliano is back with an updated version for 2021. It looks at where the PWA platform is as a whole, what changes took place over the last twelve months, and what’s ahead — think things like market share, what’s new, what’s missing, challenges, new capabilities, etc.

Maximiliano Firtman

Peter Cooper recommends

Kotlin's Roadmap for 2021 — Recently updated with the priorities for the year ahead, and a list of changes since the last published roadmap in October.

Kotlin

Peter Cooper recommends

Six Wild Things I Learned about SwiftUI — A handful of gotchas encountered when writing SwiftUI-based iOS apps.

Martin Note

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Making the Case for Why React Native is 'Garbage' — Bit of a spicy headline admittedly. Nevertheless, here's an ex-Google / ex-Facebook tech lead presenting the case against the React Native app framework.

Patrick Shyu

Holly Schinsky recommends

How to Deploy Flutter Web to Netlify Using CI/CD and Azure Pipelines — From Firebase to Netlify, a step-by-step guide to deploy Flutter Web to Netlify using Azure Pipelines.

Agustinus Theodorus

Peter Cooper recommends

Make a Snazzy One-Time Code Input in React Native — If your app demands a user enter a one-time code (from an SMS, say) here’s a way to make it a nice experience with React Native.

John Schoeman and Devin Jameson (thoughtbot)

Holly Schinsky recommends

Display Dynamic Calendar Events With Flutter — How to use table_calendar package to create dynamic events in your Flutter apps.

Shaiq khan

Holly Schinsky recommends

Seven Unique APIs for Your Next Mobile App Project

Renaissance Engineer

Brian Rinaldi recommends

An Easy Way to Collect Crash Reports in Our Android Libraries

Alex Verein

Chris Brandrick recommends

Building a Realtime Cryptocurrency App with Flutter

Ably Realtime

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Creating an Animated TextField with React Native

Halil Bilir

Chris Brandrick recommends

H.266 Codec Promises to Reduce Video File Sizes by Half

Matthew Humphries