Mobile development for week #506 (September 11

In this release, shaders on iOS and a game under 1 MB, Spotify without ads and simple habits of the best engineers, new payment in Unity, the fastest growing apps in September, a social network for friends only and much more!

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iOS

• Want virtual macOS on your PC? I have them
• Shaders in iOS for beginners
• iOS 17 is coming soon, look at the statistics on old versions
• Swift lessons: default avatar like in Telegram
• Acceptance of placements in the App Store for the latest OS versions is open
• The SwiftUI Cookbook: Understanding Views and View Hierarchies in SwiftUI
• Shake to undo in a SwiftUI app
• SwiftUI Sensory Feedback
• Develop with Cocoa for Apple Devices without using Objective-C
• SwiftDataKit: Unleashing Advanced Core Data Features in SwiftData
• An Architecture for Behavior-Driven Development in Swift
• SwiftUI Guide: Triggering Actions Solely on First View Appearance
• Theming SwiftUI applications
• SwiftUI Clean Architecture 101
• Vending Non-Mutating Data in SwiftUI
• If and switch expressions in Swift
• Beginner’s Guide: SwiftUI and Additional Essentials
• iOS Interview Guide: Swift Initializers
• Unsafe Memory Access in Swift
• How To Visualize The Safe Area
• Working With UIViewRepresentable
• StateObject vs ObservedObject
• Different ways to map over Dictionary in Swift
• Understanding Container Background for Widget in iOS 17
• Using expanded SwiftUI support for MapKit
• Comparing SwiftUI @StateObject, @ObservedObject and iOS17 @Observed macro
• Simplifying iOS App Invocation Handling with Swift: A Comprehensive Guide
• Level up your SwiftUI – Easy improvements you can apply to any SwiftUI app
• SwiftUI Tag TextField
• How To Use SwiftData with Preview
• Scrolling Charts in iOS 17
• SwiftUI: Hide Navigation Bar On Swipe
• EmojiPalette: Emoji picker for SwiftUI
• SDWebImageSwiftUI: Loading images in SwiftUI
• UI Examples: examples of beautiful UI

Android

• I wrote it myself, I played it myself: how did I write a 2D game for Android completely from scratch, weighing less than 1MB?
• Microsmartphone for 100 rubles: We buy an 11-year-old smartphone and… write applications for it
• How I removed ads from the Spotify app
• Protobuf vs Reflection
• Mock interview Middle Android Developer
• Android developer interview: Maxim Kachinkin (Dodo Engineering)
• What’s new in Android 14 for developers
• Android 15 will provide access to battery data
• How we made SPACE INVADERS: World Defense
• Android Studio for Platform – IDE for AOSP
• Paging 3 on Android
• How We Made SPACE INVADERS: World Defense, an AR game powered by ARCore
• Understanding Density-Independent Pixels
• • Complex SemanticMatchers for Compose UI Testing
• Kotlin Contracts: Empowering Your Code for Better Quality
• Gradle and Java Version Compatibility: A Beginner’s Guide
• Intro to Polymorphism with Kotlinx.Serialization
• Google MLKit: Quick and easy Face Detection in Android
• Automate screenshot testing for Compose previews via reflection
• Building the WhatToEat Experience on Android
• Success Story: How FlowMVI has changed the fate of our project
• Parallax effect in Jetpack Compose
• Animate borders in Jetpack Compose
• Building Media-Rich Android Apps with MediaCodec and Vendor Extensions
• Jetpack Compose for Wearables — Developing UIs for Smartwatches
• How to automate SDK testing and sleep through the night — a sensor simulation story
• Security Tips for Android Developers
• How Qualcomm Added Audio Offload Support for ExoPlayer
• Automate screenshot testing for Compose previews via reflection
• Don’t Make These 2 Mistakes With Lists in Kotlin
• Swipeable Tab Rows – UX With Material3
• Android Jetpack Compose: The Perfect Splash Screen
• ComposeShadowsPlus: shadows for Compose
• AAY-chart: charts for Android and Kotlin Multiplatform

Cross platform

• Flutter on Aurora OS
• Does it make sense to start writing a mobile application not in Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform?
• Flutter – CI/CD Azure + App Center
• PWA vs Native: a checklist to help you choose
• Puro – an effective way to manage Flutter versions
• Innovations in the Flutter 3.13 framework. Part 2
• Compose for iOS under the hood
• Compose Multiplatform for iOS and Android
• Flutter Dev Podcast #42: DCM. What’s new?
• Flutter State Management: Provider, BLoC, GetX, Riverpod, GetIt and MobX
• What is BuildContext in Flutter
• 5 Advanced Architecture Patterns you should know as flutter developer
• AdMob UMP SDK in Flutter — Implement your GDPR dialog
• Integrating React Native as an SDK into a Native Android App
• How to Improve Performance in Flutter: Replace SizedBox with Compile-Time Constants
• Introducing the Flutter Consulting Directory
• Exploring the Expandable Menu Package in Flutter
• LÖVE: a wonderful framework for creating 2D games in Lua

Development

• How SberPay works under the hood
• 7 Simple Habits of the Top 1% of Engineers
• Unity introduces a new payment system for developers + What worries developers about the Unity Runtime Fee? (TL;DR)
• What’s wrong with interface designers. Is there a difference between a UX/UI and a product designer?
• Testing of the internal mobile application “On Connection”
• How to Avoid Cheating at Work: 5 Effective Strategies
• The Debugging Dilemma — Why So Many Beginners Give Up on Programming
• Golden age of UX is over?
• The Best Filter UI Design for Large-Scale Apps
• Death by a thousand microservices
• Philosophy of coroutines
• How to use Strings Method to improve any UI design
• How mobile apps illegally share your personal data

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• Tyranny of the margin user
• Yandex open sourced the AppMetrica code
• Sensor Tower made layoffs
• Getting online: how games are becoming social networks for zoomers and millennials
• Top fastest growing applications in Russia in September
• Most downloaded apps in August 2023
• Entering the global market: adapting the interface for RTL
• Favs – a social network just for friends
• Shopping collages are moving from Shuffles to the main Pinterest app
• Amazon is bringing back in-app purchases to Android
• Slingshot – quickly send photos using a slingshot
• ASO.dev – how I made a product for Apple again
• In-app purchases – for what and why? Analyst’s view
• Yandex introduced Yandex Mobile Ads SDK 6
• 5 ways to improve your product analytics data

AI, Devices, IoT

• AI agents with self-reflection
• We create subtitles for any video on the Internet using a neural network in the browser
• Development of generative AI systems based on the ML Platform: creating a competitor to ChatGPT without millions of investments
• Control of servos, part 3. Controlling PWM/PWM servos from the GPIO connectors of computers using the example of Repka Pi

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