#364 — July 16, 2021 |
📱 Mobile Dev Weekly |
Chris Brandrick recommends
Introducing the Android Game Development Kit — The ‘AGDK’ is a new, full range of tools and libraries to help you develop, optimize, and deliver high-quality games on Android. Scott Carbon-Ogden (Google) |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Hobson's Browser (or 'How Apple, Facebook, and Google Broke the Mobile Browser Market by Silently Undermining User Choice') — A case that WebViews and in-app browsers and operating systems are used to deny users choice and limit competition. Alex Russell |
OpenTelemetry and Distributed Tracing for Mobile Applications — OpenTelemetry is quickly becoming the enterprise standard for instrumentation both in the distributed tracing space as well as the metrics space. Lightstep sponsor |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Programming for Android: What Language to Use? — Java, Kotlin or Dart (for Flutter) — what are the pros and cons of using each to build an Android app? Arooha Arif |
Holly Schinsky recommends
Using Client-Side Map Data to Improve Real-Time Positioning — How Lyft improves on device location tracking with map data. Karina Goot |
Chris Brandrick recommends
The Large, Small, and Dynamic Viewports — A look at some of the changes being proposed regarding viewport units that will finally solve that irksome ‘100vh in Safari on iOS’ issue. Bramus Van Damme |
Chris Brandrick recommends
Things You Need to Know Before Switching to Jetpack Compose — Here are the main things you need to know before starting to use Jetpack Compose (Android’s modern toolkit for building native UI) in your projects. Max Kim |
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Holly Schinsky recommends
Horizontal Calendar Component in React Native — How to build a horizontal calendar component in React Native. Saad Khan |
Chris Brandrick recommends
▶ Rebuilding iOS 15 with Tailwind CSS — An exercise in recreating the new Notification Summary UI from iOS 15 using Tailwind CSS. Tailwind Labs |