#264 — July 12, 2019 |
Mobile Developer Weekly |
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 Holly Schinsky recommendsAnnouncing Flutter 1.7 — Flutter announces release 1.7 with support for AndroidX, updated Play Store requirements and a number of new and enhanced components. Tim Sneath |
 Peter Cooper recommendsA Plan to Bring Java to iOS? — OpenJDK Mobile would use ahead-of-time compilation to create JVM-free executables that should adhere to Apple’s policies. Paul Krill |
Image & Video Management Made for Mobile Developers — Simplify and automate the process of uploading, manipulating, optimizing, and delivering images and videos across every device at any bandwidth. Try Cloudinary. See how easy media management can be. Get your own free account today. Cloudinary sponsor |
 Chris Brandrick recommendsWebDriver is Coming to Safari in iOS 13 — Starting in iOS 13, Safari will include native support for the W3C WebDriver standard (a remote interface that enables control of user agents). This post explains how to get started with WebDriver for iOS, how to port existing desktop-oriented tests, and a few details regarding safeguards and behavior changes. Brian Burg (WebKit) |
 Brian Rinaldi recommends▶ An Analysis of The NativeScript Mobile Platform — A podcast episode that explores NativeScript and how to evaluate new technologies and frameworks. The Frontside Podcast podcast |
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Peter Cooper recommends Tales from the Spam Filter of an Android App Developer — “Publishing on Google Play requires you to publish a contact email address as well. Publishing a contact address means you get spam mail. The spam mail you get from the Play contact address is scary.” Raccoon |
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Peter Cooper recommends Announcing Envoy Mobile - Initial OSS Preview — An iOS and Android client network library that brings the power of Envoy Proxy to mobile. Matt Klein |
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Brian Rinaldi recommends Android Q Gestures Are Still in Flux, Even in The Latest Beta Release — How will the updated back gesture work in Android Q? It’s a bit complicated. Dieter Bohn |
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Holly Schinsky recommends Why We Use Web Components — Why Ionic chooses to use Web Components as the basis of their Stencil offering. Max Lynch |
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Chris Brandrick recommends 7-Eleven Japanese Customers Lose $500,000 Due to Mobile App Flaw — A cautionary tale — hackers exploit a poorly designed password reset function to make unwanted charges on 900 customers’ accounts. Catalin Cimpanu |
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Peter Cooper recommends More Than 1,000 Android Apps Harvest Data Even After You Deny Permissions — The apps gather information such as location, even after owners explicitly say no. A fix won’t come until Android Q. Alfred Ng |
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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 |
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Holly Schinsky recommends Create & Manage Quick Actions in Flutter — How to use the ‘quick_actions’ package to create a widget that you can wrap around your material app to handle your quick actions. Dane Mackier |
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Brian Rinaldi recommends Advanced Unit and Snapshot Testing with React Native — Using Jest with Enzyme to achieve 100% code coverage. Chad Nehemiah |
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Chris Brandrick recommends It’s Time to Kill The Infinite Scroll — “endless scroll encourages bad content and bad business models. Let’s change that.” Kate Lucey |
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Holly Schinsky recommends How To Integrate Social Media Into Mobile Web Design Suzanne Scacca |
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Chris Brandrick recommends The Optimal Placement for Mobile Call to Action Buttons UX Movement |
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Holly Schinsky recommends 5 Reasons to A/B Test Your App Store Product Page Lina Danilchik |
 Za'e Johnson recommendsHow to Integrate The New ‘Sign in with Apple’ Button in Your iOS App Space-O Technologies |
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Holly Schinsky recommends What’s New in flutter_bloc 0.19.0 Felix Angelov |
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