#342 — February 12, 2021

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📱 Mobile Dev Weekly

Chris Brandrick recommends

Announcing Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) Alpha — Google has announced an alpha version of its Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) tool. It’s designed for building compiler plugins in Kotlin, and aims to speed up Android app development.

Ting-Yuan Huang‎, David Winer (Google)

Holly Schinsky recommends

Why Flutter is Overtaking React Native — Learn how Flutter works, how to build Flutter apps, and why some think it’s overtaking React Native.

Jethro Magaji

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Android Could Also Get Anti-tracking Features — There’s a lot of chatter about Apple’s new anti-tracking features at the moment, but Google is also looking into some form of limiting data collection by third-party apps on Android (but doing it in a way that’s less rigorous for developers).

Stan Schroeder

Chris Brandrick recommends

Benchmarking The Global 5G Experience — The data here identifies the countries that are leading when it comes to 5G.

Ian Fogg

Peter Cooper recommends

Flutter Engage: March 3rd — An upcoming virtual event from Google highlighting how Flutter can be used not only for cross-platform mobile apps, but also across the web, desktop, and embedded devices.

Google

Holly Schinsky recommends

One Year in Production with Flutter: Lessons Learned — A recap of some lessons a company learned after having their Flutter app in production for one year.

Kirill Bubochkin

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Halving iOS Test Time with Partitioning in Jenkins Pipelines — A way to manage UI tests on iOS apps to dramatically cut the amount of time it takes to run them.

Adam Heimendinger

Chris Brandrick recommends

How We Sped Up Dropbox Android App Startup by 30% — A look at how the team at Dropbox measured, identified, and fixed the issues that were affecting their app startup time.

Marianna Budnikova (Dropbox)

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Make Your PWAs Look Handsome on iOS — Apple limits the viewport of PWAs by default, but here’s a tip to ‘embrace the notch’ and leverage the entire screen.

Karmasakshi Goyal

Peter Cooper recommends

A Collaborative List of Open-Source iOS Apps — A community curated set of over 2000 open-source iOS apps. Related repo here.

dkhamsing

Peter Cooper recommends

Is Apple Banning Free Analytics SDKs?

Allen Pike

Chris Brandrick recommends

Accessibility Testing for the Mobile Web

Josh McClure