Digest of interesting materials for a mobile developer # 367 (October 19 – 25)

How I decided to make a game inspired by Heroes of Might and Magic and lost money (part 1, 2)

This game gave me another great experience. She made it clear that I can put together a team, lead the process and bring things to the end. But I still have to learn how to make money.

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iOS

• (+6) Back to BLE or a way to automate routine operations
• (+3) Single source of truth (SSOT) on MVVM with RxSwift & CoreData
• Modern ways to reload table and collection cells in Swift

• What programming languages ​​are used inside iOS 14?

• What makes iOS gestures perfectly smooth?

• iPhone 12 vs Designers

• Bonjour: communication between devices without a server

• How iOS apps adapt to different screen sizes on iPhone 12

• IOS Design System Engineer Interview at Spotify

• How to preview a photo in SwiftUI

• Build Serverless Mobile Apps with Amazon Aurora, Amplify, and SwiftUI

• Testing snapshots in Swift

• XcodeGen – Simplified Collaboration

• Introducing View Styles to Bumble

• iOS 13 Dark Mode in BlaBlaCar: a developer’s story

• Debugging on iOS 14 with Xcode 11

• The Complete Guide to SwiftUI 2 App Lifecycle

• Higher order functions in Swift

• Bauletto: iOS 13 badges

• SketchKit: replacing auto layout with Swift

Android

• (+33) Big pictures? Deal with it
• (+18) Android Developers: How To Reduce Dark Theme Implementation Time From A Month To A Week
• (+15) Huawei’s Gentleman’s Kit for Mobile Game Developer: Game Service and Tools for Rapid HMS Integration
• (+9) Tips for working with the Huawei ecosystem from Kaspersky Lab
• Google launches Android for Cars App Library

• Improving Android WebView Performance with Glide

• Solving complex screens

• Android programming: architecture with one Activity and Navigation

• Some common mistakes when creating layouts in Android

• Synchronous communication with the UI using StateFlow

• Implementing Firebase App Distribution in Android Development

• Developer Tips and Guides: Common Policy Violations and How to Avoid Them

• EvadeMe – library for Android

• Testing Image Loading Libraries on Android

• Jetpack Compose View vs. Android View

• CodeView: editor for code

• Animation Tutorials: Android Animation Tutorials

• Spotlight: hints for the interface

Development of

• (+31) Should you fire a developer for a big and expensive mistake? I think not, but management wanted blood
• (+25) Tinkoff Payments experience: improved mobile SDK and made online payment even more convenient
• (+23) State switch controls: the infamous case of the mute button
• (+19) How We Came to Reactive Linking in Unity3D
• (+12) How much does it cost to develop a mobile application
• (+7) Basic mocking format for React components
• (+6) AngularDart roadmap update
• (+4) Design system: what is it, why and how to create
• (+3) Flutter: Q3 2020 Developer Survey Results
• (+3) How to generate constant rate requests in k6 with the new scripting API?
• I Want to Become Game Dev # 14: Profession – Game Producer

• Podlodka # 186: travels in Russia

• Spotify in neomorphism

• Kite adds support for Objective-C, Kotlin and 9 more programming languages

• The best sources every developer should see

• App design: examples for inspiration # 20

• If you want to be a better programmer, stop coding

• How to create a to-do list app in Flutter

• Flutter: Visual Studio Code Extensions for Fast, Efficient Development

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+9) Finland for game developers: a small country with great opportunities
• App Annie: Zoomers spend $ 143 billion on mobile per year

• You can’t use AdMob to monetize small apps: a discussion on Reddit

• Did you forget to buy? How a creative approach to programmatic advertising helps to return users – the case of OZON and Bidease

• Wargaming Forge will teach you how to create video from games for free

• Playbook: promotion through trainers

• When ASO starts to bring results

• Automation of testing product analytics in mobile applications

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+141) Sberbank released the Russian-language GPT-3 Large model with 760 million parameters for open access
• (+42) DIY smart mirror
• (+30) Plan 9 cluster on Raspberry Pi
• (+13) Mini ITX cluster Turing Pi 2 with 32 GB RAM
• (+2) Overview of Networking and Messaging Protocols for IoT
• JAICF – a framework for developing chatbots in Kotlin

• Nokia will make lunar 4G for NASA

• Huawei will deal with cars

• Four pre-built machine learning projects for beginners

• Object detection at 1840fps with TorchScript, TensorRT and DeepStream