#341 — February 5, 2021

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đŸ“± Mobile Dev Weekly

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Designing Better Tooltips For Mobile User Interfaces — A look at the timing and implementation issues that can make tooltips ineffective on mobile and how to fix them.

Eric Olive

Chris Brandrick recommends

Just Because I Have A Vertical Screen, Doesn’t Mean I’m On A Phone — Like the author, I too use a vertical monitor as part of my home office set up, and yup, I see a fair number of sites just serve up the mobile view despite me being on desktop. Terence offers up one DPI-based solution.

Terence Eden

Holly Schinsky recommends

Five React Native Libraries You Might Have Missed — Some useful React Native libraries to be sure to check out for your next mobile app project.

Fabian Lee

Chris Brandrick recommends

Ford to Install Google's Android Operating System in Most Cars From 2023 — Ford and Google are teaming up on a six-year partnership.

Jasper Jolly

Chris Brandrick recommends

'The App Store Has A Big Problem' — Developer Kosta outlines the problem of copycat apps and phoney reviews on the App Store in this Twitter thread.

Kosta Eleftheriou on Twitter

Brian Rinaldi recommends

How to Build Your First Serverless React Native App with User Authentication

Michael Bagley

Peter Cooper recommends

iOS 'Limit Adult Website' Feature Blocking Domains Including Arbitrary Words? — A CS student has noticed that if iOS’s “Limit Adult Website” feature is enabled, access to any URLs including the term “asian” is blocked. Other people have noticed other innocuous terms like ‘amateur’ causing the same problem. If this could affect your own URLs or domains, it’s worth checking up on this.

Steven Shen on Twitter

Holly Schinsky recommends

Build Your Mobile App in 10 Days With React Native — If you want to just kick the tyres on React Native this may be a decent way to give it a try to get a taste for things.

Sophia Martin

Chris Brandrick recommends

Sunsetting Dribbble's iOS & Android apps — Designer community Dribbble has done away with its native apps in favour of their mobile web experience.

Dribbble

Peter Cooper recommends

Iconify: Generate App Icons for iOS, Android, and More — Online tool (and cross-platform native app) to generate app icons for just about every use case covering web and mobile. Just upload an image and the app does the rest.

iconify

Chris Brandrick recommends

Kotlin 1.4.30 Released

JetBrains