#​366 — July 30, 2021

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📱 Mobile Dev Weekly

Chris Brandrick recommends

Jetpack Compose Is Now 1.0: Android’s Modern Toolkit for Building Native UI — It’s been around in one form or another for the best part of two years now, but it’s finally hit a stable 1.0 release. Big names like Square, Monzo, and Twitter are among over 2,000 apps already using it.

Anna-Chiara Bellini and Nick Butcher (Google)

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Publishing Your Android Library - The Local Way — Dives into how to use a Maven local repository to test an Android library while working on it locally.

Nadia Castelli

Go from Zero to Live Streaming, in a Couple of Minutes — Build video for your app that Just Works. Mux's Video API makes it super easy to build video or live streaming into any app.

Mux sponsor

Chris Brandrick recommends

How Does Facebook Know Someone is Old Enough To Use Their Apps? — How Facebook is using AI to find and remove underaged accounts, and what steps they are taking to develop new ways to verify people’s ages (…and yes they seem to be pursuing a version of Instagram for those under 13 🤔).

Pavni Diwanji

Holly Schinsky recommends

How Flutter Renders The UI — A high-level look at how Flutter ends up drawing the widgets that you define.

Thomas Middel

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Deploying Your Flutter App to Play Store — Walks through the steps you need to take to get our Flutter app into Google’s Play Store.

Jacob Hunsaker

Chris Brandrick recommends

SF Symbol Changes in iOS 15 — An overview of the changes introduced with Apple’s SF Symbols 3, including new rendering modes, different sets, and of course a slew of new symbols.

Geoff Hackworth

Holly Schinsky recommends

Ten Good Reasons to Learn Flutter in 2021 — Flutter is now the most popular framework for cross-platform development.

Radhika Goswami

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Yet Another Mobile Context Menu With No Indication it Can Scroll — A quick post about a common mobile anti-pattern.

Chris Coyier

Holly Schinsky recommends

React Native Component Libraries to Try in Your Next Build

Aman Mittal

Chris Brandrick recommends

Tax Category Setting Now Available in App Store Connect

Apple Developer

Holly Schinsky recommends

Flutter Vs. Ionic: Which to Choose For Your Next Mobile App Development Project?

Neoito

Chris Brandrick recommends

Safari 15 Isn’t Bad, Just Misunderstood

Jeff Kirvin opinion