#342 — February 12, 2021 |
📱 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 |
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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. |
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 |