#262 — June 28, 2019

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Mobile Developer Weekly
Cross-platform mobile news, views, and developments

Peter Cooper recommends

Reinventing Firefox for Android: A Preview — A pilot of this new browser is available to early adopters for testing as of now.

Vesta Zare (Mozilla)

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Ionic Capacitor: Creating Native Applications with JavaScript — A look at why Ionic decided to create Capacitor as a replacement for Cordova.

Guy Nesher

CameraX, tvOS 13, Core ML - Expert Guidance — Blogs from the authors you trust.

Big Nerd Ranch sponsor

Chris Brandrick recommends

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites — When it comes to mobile loading speeds, your website can always be faster.

Suzanne Scacca

Brian Rinaldi recommends

An Android Developer’s Beginner’s Guide to React Native — Some pros and cons when switching to React Native from the perspective of an Android developer.

Nikhil Sachdeva

Holly Schinsky recommends

Getting Started with Vuex: A Beginner’s Guide — Michael Wanyoike provides a high-level overview of what Vuex is, what problem it solves, how to install it, and its core concepts, demonstrating how to implement it into a simple app.

SitePoint

Holly Schinsky recommends

Build a Location Service in Flutter — How to wrap the location package into a consumable service for your Flutter apps.

Dane Mackier

Tutorial: How to Build a Live Streaming App — Use Mux's simple, but powerful, video APIs to build live streaming into your application.

Mux sponsor

Chris Brandrick recommends

Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links — This concept may prove to be a simpler alternative in certain use cases.

Bradley Taunt

Za'e Johnson recommends

How To Create A PDF From Your Web App — Rachel Andrew takes a look at the tools that are available for creating a PDF from a web app, sharing recommendations to help find the tool that works best for you.

Smashing Magazine

Holly Schinsky recommends

Migrate your Flutter App to Flutter Web — Recently Google released the technical preview of Flutter Web — learn how to convert your Flutter mobile apps to Flutter Web.

Suchandrim Sarkar

Holly Schinsky recommends

Synchronizing Online/Offline States with SyncStore — How to synchronize local and remote states when your mobile app switches between online and offline.

Sean Bae

Chris Brandrick recommends

How To Do Authentication using AWS Amplify in iOS

Calin-Cristian Ciubotariu

Holly Schinsky recommends

Creating a Fluid Scroll Experience on iOS

Ray Kim

Chris Brandrick recommends

An Oral History of The Hamburger Icon (From The People Who Were There)

Dale Berning Sawa

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