Digest of interesting materials for a mobile developer # 360 (August 31 – September 6)

Set up a destroy, the order does NOT suck: how I brought the closet to life

The story of a long search for devices and / or wires began to touch me every day. Such a trivial task, how to find Xiaomi Mi A1, took a lot of time and brought mental anguish. After a while, I came to the conclusion that it pisses me off and it shouldn’t take so long to find a device. I found a bottleneck in workflows and decided to eliminate it.

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iOS

• (+66) IOS Icon Shape Secret: Is It a Squirrel? Parsing
• (+3) Translation Formulas: Tricky Localization for iOS and Beyond
• (+3) Swift Best Practices you are not ashamed to know
• Apple Delays iOS 14 Privacy Protection Until Next Year

• Features of the implementation of a horizontal scrolling calendar

• App Store launches subscription promo codes

• 10 tips for designing widgets for iOS 14

• Apple will not delay fixing bugs in the App Store

• Apple makes its own search service?

• My Favorite iOS Development Apps in 2020

• How to create an interactive Bottom Sheet in Swift 5

• In-app purchases and StoreKit in iOS 14

• Snap to scroll element

• How to create a navigator to navigate to any page in Swift

• Your first UITest in Swift

• What’s new in Xcode 12.0?

• Live video processing in SwiftUI using Core Image

• Don’t do it with Swift Optionals

• Assembler in iOS

• Apple Silicon for Application Developers

• Swifty Guitar Chords: Guitar Chords on Swift

• MultiplatformApp: a multiplatform application based on SwiftUI

Android

• (+10) How to write Android UI tests
• (+4) To be or not to be: discussions about testing in mobile development
• (+3) Downloading and building AOSP
• (+2) So why do we need MVI in mobile development?
• (+2) How to embed a voice assistant into any mobile application. We disassemble using the example of Habitica
• (+1) Analysis of SMS receiving services for Android against service sites and experience in developing new functionality for Android
• Android Broadcast: Dagger Hilt: Deep Dive / No more Koin

• Android Broadcast: Kotlin 1.4: faster and better

• Alpha Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile released

• Thermal in Android

• Private Libraries in Android – Why You Should Consider This

• Retrieving interactions from the ViewModel

• Touch, double tap, pan and pinch recognition in Android

• Make your (Kotlin) code express itself

• Common developer mistakes when creating RecyclerViews and how to fix them using the ViewRepresentation class

• Format your Kotlin code with Ktlint

• Shape Drawables is the most powerful Android UI tool

• Exploring Kotlin Multiplatform

• Configuring Logcat in Android Studio

• 20 Android Development Tools You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

• Adding a ribbon to an Android app icon (again))
• Preferred data storage in Jetpack DataStore

• Jetpack Release Tracker: Tracking AndroidX Updates

• TrackerControl: tracking data collection on Android

• Jetpack Compose Samples: Compose Examples

Development of

• (+43) Your squares are wrong
• (+18) How to create destructible objects in Unreal Engine 4 and Blender
• (+17) “Well, go for it!” or CI / CD mobile applications based on contract
• (+9) How was the open Demo Day at Raiffeisenbank
• (+7) Testing Flutter Applications: Tools, Benefits, Challenges
• (+7) How mobile wallets work on the example of the “Mir Pay” application
• (+4) Improving scene handling with ScriptableObject
• (+4) Advanced bike building or client / server application based on C # .Net framework
• (+3) Test Engineer Tip # 1: Dockerize Your Selenium Grid
• (+2) Apple Design Awards Winner: Statistically Average Portrait
• Podlodka # 179: rationality

• How to create your own gaming business

• App design: examples for inspiration # 15

• Google and Apple Develop Simplified COVID-19 Warning System

• Pokemon GO ends support for older smartphones

• Unity Distribution Portal will allow working with many app stores at once

• Designing a Game in Sketch: An Interview with the Creator of King Rabbit

• Don’t design for mobile (Mobile-first)

• Where to start designing a mobile application. Basics of UI design

• What is Actions Builder? Actions Builder and Actions SDK for Google Assistant

• Reverse engineering: developing a server emulator for Marvel’s Avengers

• 10 best and most popular Flutter packages

• 5 tips for better button design

• Improving Flutter apps with autocomplete

• Clean code for leading developers

• Automating the Flutter project lifecycle with GitHub Actions

• Yes, TDD slows you down

• Developing a mood diary on Flutter in 2 hours

• 6 Steps to Finding the Right Test Automation Environment (with Case Study)

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• Avo: next generation analytics

• Top earning apps in August 2020

• India has banned PUBG and hundreds more apps

• Google launched Growth Academy for Ukraine and Belarus

• App Annie Releases First Half Gaming Report

• myTracker analyzes in-app ad revenue

• Localization: how to enter the international market and increase the number of installations?

• Monetization model: changing and cheaply testing a new one

• Why retention is the best way to grow

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+20) Raspberry cinema center or how to make an unbreakable smart TV
• (+18) How games became the driving force behind two schools of AI research
• (+1) A microwave that knows everything about you: what is the Internet of Things (IoT)?
• Apple iPhone 11 became the best-selling smartphone in the first half of 2020

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