#​376 — October 15, 2021

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✍️ Hello, after a break last week we're back with the latest mobile dev updates for you.
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The Mobile Dev Weekly Team

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Chris Brandrick recommends

Google Says It’s Dropping Material Design Components On iOS in Favor of Apple’s UIKit — Yup, Google’s range of iOS apps could finally feel more like they belong on iOS.

James Vincent

Brian Rinaldi recommends

jQuery Maintainers Continue Modernization Initiative with Deprecation of jQuery Mobile — The cross-platform jQuery Mobile project is now fully deprecated as of October 7, 2021.

Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek, Felix Nagel, jQuery team

OpenTelemetry and Observability: Achieving Full System Visibility

Lightstep sponsor

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Ionic Portals Aims to Simplify the Integration of Web Apps into iOS and Android Native Code — Ionic describes its new web view component, Ionic Portals, as a “supercharged” version of the native web view controls available on iOS and Android. It aims to make it easier for developers to integrate web apps with native code in an efficient way.

Sergio De Simone

Holly Schinsky recommends

Introducing Abstract: A New React Prototyping Tool, Designed for Mobile — A way to create mobile first application prototypes in real-time.

Team Abstract

Peter Cooper recommends

Sending iOS Push Notifications via APNs — Need to iOS push notifications through APNs? Here’s a walkthrough of how to send push notifications with the help of a sample iOS app and a basic Node script.

Ritu Chaturvedi

Chris Brandrick recommends

PDF: Android Mobile OS 'Snooping' By Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei and Realme Handsets? — This report suggests that Android devices are sending a significant amount of user data with no way to opt-out.

Liu, Patras, Leith

Holly Schinsky recommends

Deploying A Deep Learning Model on Mobile Using TensorFlow and React — How to build a cross-platform mobile app (for both iOS and Android) using React Native and TensorFlowJS React Native adaptor.

Reshama Shaikh

Chris Brandrick recommends

Structured Concurrency in Swift 5.5 — Another way to do concurrency, this time in Swift 5.5 with much cleaner code.

Junda Ong

Holly Schinsky recommends

Flutter Minimizing Tips — A minimalist guide for size optimizations for Flutter.

Hasan Basri Bayat

Brian Rinaldi recommends

'Appwalls & Their Apps Are Destructive to The Open Web'

Greg Storey opinion

Chris Brandrick recommends

Seven Things You Should Know Before using Jetpack Compose

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