#382 — December 17, 2021 |
📱 Mobile Dev Weekly |
Chris Brandrick recommends
Announcing Jetpack Glance Alpha for App Widgets — Android 12 revamped App Widgets, and now this first alpha of Jetpack Glance is aiming to make building them easier. It’s a new framework built on top of the Jetpack Compose runtime designed to make it faster/simpler to build app widgets for the home screen and other surfaces. Marcel Pintó Biescas (Google) |
Peter Cooper recommends
Announcing Flutter 2.8 — A new release of Flutter landed last week, this post look over the numerous new features and improvements, along with a look back on a year of growth. Tim Sneath |
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices — In this excerpt from his new book Steven shares how it’s important to understand a bit about the history, the technology, and what now counts as a mobile touchscreen device. Steven Hoober |
Chris Brandrick recommends
Swift Playgrounds 4 Now Available — An update to Apple’s tools that enable you to build iPhone/iPad apps right on iPad. Release notes here. John Voorhees at MacStories shares a first look at what's new. Apple |
Holly Schinsky recommends
WebRTC in A Nutshell — An introduction to WebRTC, an open source project that allows you to add peer to peer real-time communication capabilities to your apps. Emin DENİZ |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
'The Tragedy of Safari' — Apple’s Safari ‘rarely gets respect from technical users’ – this post dives into why that’s maybe the case. Magic Lasso |
Chris Brandrick recommends
Value Classes in Kotlin: Good-Bye, Type Aliases!? — With the release of Kotlin 1.5.0, value classes (formerly known as inline classes) are finally stable. This post asks whether we should now drop all our type aliases and data classes in favor of value classes? Frederik Kammel |
Brian Rinaldi recommends
How Flutter 2.8 Enhances Mobile App Performance — A look at features like low latency app startup, a new concurrency model, and more. Somyarajsinh jadeja |
Holly Schinsky recommends
How to Get a Device’s Dimensions in React Native — A quick look at how to make your app accommodate a wide range of device sizes. Aziz Booker |
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