Digest of interesting materials for a mobile developer # 356 (August 3 – 9)

How to implement in-app subscriptions in Android applications: tips and tricks

Every year the requirements for in-app subscriptions in mobile applications in the App Store and Google Play change, it becomes more and more difficult to take them into account the first time and not receive a series of rejections, thereby postponing the release sometimes for several months. If there are already a lot of publications about the requirements for the App Store, then sometimes questions still arise with the rules of in-app subscriptions for Google Play.

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iOS

• (+48) Is your iPhone so secure? Overview of vulnerabilities and secret passages in iOS
• (+26) How Apple uses non-market methods to extort developers
• (+8) Avito iOS meetup materials # 8: videos and presentations
• (+7) How to create a calculator in Swift 5
• (+6) AppCode 2020.2: Swift Package Manager support, performance improvements, Change Signature for Swift, and more
• (+4) Implementation of Grid layout on SwiftUI
• Apple has effectively banned Stadia and xCloud streaming games

• Apple publishes requirements for default browsers and email clients

• Phil Schiller will stop marketing Apple

• Apple bought Canadian fintech Mobeewave

• Thousands of Apps Removed from Chinese App Store

• Making a sticky title in a ScrollView using SwiftUI

• Making a draggable card on SwiftUI

• Apple could lose the developer crowd

• matchGeometryEffect by SwiftUI in iOS 14

• Modern modular apps with Xcode 12 and Swift Package Manager

• Why SwiftUI Makes You A Better Programmer

• OCR on an iOS device using SwiftUI

• Pure AppDelegate

• Make your SwiftUI app scalable and responsive to different screen sizes

• iOS development in VSCode

• SwiftFortuneWheel: Wheel of Fortune on Swift

• YouTag: Music Player for iOS

Android

• (+17) Composite build as an alternative to buildSrc in Gradle
• (+11) Android inside out: comparison of Dalvik and ART
• (+7) Transforming Android Development with Jetpack Compose and Coroutines
• (+7) RecyclerView.ItemDecoration: making the most of it
• (+7) Is RxRelay magic? Subject vs RxRelay
• (+6) Implementing Barcode Scanning Functionality Using HMS Core Scan SDK
• (+5) Top Most Important Android Features for the Blind – According to Blind Experts
• Xiaomi abandoned the Android One program

• Google became the seller of ALL apps in Europe

• Android Broadcast: tube get-togethers. Artem Zinnatullin @ Lyft

• Union, Intersect, Subtract in Kotlin

• ViewPager2 – digging into internal APIs for working with DiffUtil

• How to stay a modern Android developer

• Reverse engineering of Android applications

• Search filter implementation using Kotlin Channels and Flows

• Using the In-App Review API for Google Play Reviews

• Android Repository Template

• Material Components for Android 1.2.0

• GraphView: Graphs for Android

• Scrcast: screen recording in Android app

Development of

• (+25) The tale of the development of an ambitious project by a 16 year old guy (file547)
• (+13) What skills can be pumped on a project with a large code base
• (+10) Protecting yourself from trackers on mobile platforms
• (+8) FigmaExport: how to automate the export of a UI-Kit from Figma to Xcode and Android Studio projects
• (+6) Managing scenes in Unity without pain or suffering
• (+5) Testing for Mobile Developers: Useful Videos from Android Meetup
• make sense: About the practice of Jobs-To-Be-Done, different levels of use, myths and dangers of product centricity

• Podlodka # 175: Simulation Modeling

• Google Launches ML Kit Handwriting Recognition

• App design examples for inspiration # 12

• 5 things to better understand before starting a startup internship

• The Case of Small and Large Letters

• Testing the service without swearing with the programmer

• Why will fast design kill your product?

• Good interface rules: learning UI design with LEGO

• How to make a multiplayer (.io) web game

• Slack loses developers, Discord gains

• I made Plague Inc. for calculator

• How the ringtone industry paved the way for app stores and then disappeared

• How Flutter will win desktops

• 4 key factors you need to become a successful developer

• Configuring VS Code Like a Pro

• What Makes Godot Engine Great for Advanced GUI Applications

• How I Improved Software System Performance 35,000%

• The only factor that will make you a Senior Developer

• My 2 cents about cross platform

• The myth about the cost of software quality

• Localize your Flutter app in 3 steps

• Lessons from Building the First 10 Commercial Flutter Apps

• 6 Tips for Developers to Deal with Impostor Syndrome

• FigmaToCode: layout to code for Flutter and SwiftUI

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+13) [Фреймворк формирования полезных привычек] and maximum user involvement by the example of learning English
• (+1) How IDFA and Customer Data Control Lead to Trust Marketing
• LOVEMOBILE # 08: Adjust

• Most downloaded apps in July 2020

• Top earning apps in July 2020

• Radish: fiction micro-reading

• Mobile Games Revenues Set New Record in Q2

• How did One Guy Run get 100,000+ installs in 2 days?

• Mobile video is replacing TV

• iOS 14 & IDFA & Mobile Traffic Attribution: A Global Change in the Mobile Advertising Market

• Price testing for subscription apps

• How to develop an app that promotes itself

• Paid apps are dead. What’s next for monetization?

• 12 rules of virality I learned while creating an explosive growth video app

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+32) Language Models as an Engine of Progress: Unusual Uses for GPT-3
• (+20) How machine learning saves trees in Yekaterinburg
• (+14) Azure RTOS. Part 1: overview and launch (STM32 + CubeIDE + HAL)
• Researchers have made AI to turn selfies into normal portraits

• Google unveils Pixel 4A

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