Mobile development for week #558 (September 30 – October 6)
The new digest includes faster app launches and the Swift kn spoiler effect, an Android project metrics collector and star drawing, a Firebase replacement, the perfect embeddable language, a notes app that doesn't aim to make you more productive, and much more. Connect!
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iOS
• Why is your task running on the main thread?
• How to speed up the launch of an iOS application by 2 times using Network Instrument
• Quickly access VPN on iOS using App Intents
• How to implement a spoiler effect like in Telegram on Swift?
• How Duolingo Removed 10,000 Lines of Code Using Reaper
• Preventing corruption of the code base in iOS projects using precommit hooks
• How we baked 3D pizza
• Is there a cooler ORM than SwiftData?
• Macros six months later: not everything is so smooth
• DriverKit: driving data over the wire without moms, dads and MFi
• HomePod with display, homeOS and Apple Intelligence will hit the market next year
• 
Server side Live Activities guide
• Getting Started with Hummingbird
• SwiftUI Animations
• Using the #expect macro for Swift Testing
• Using PreviewModifier for Quick Xcode Previews
• SwiftUI: Configurable Widget to Let Our User Choose!
• Mastering container views in SwiftUI. Sections.
• Blending colors dynamically with the mix modifier
• Mastering Actors and Concurrency – Best Practices
• Implementing Shared With You in SwiftUI
• Fixing Bitcode Issues in Xcode 16: How to Resolve Invalid Executable Errors When Uploading iOS Builds
• How XcodeGen reduced the TDD in Swift codebase by 58,000+ lines
• How to Perfectly Merge SwiftUI and UIKit Navigation: A Step-by-Step Guide
• How to Use Accessibility Inspector for iOS Apps
• CoreML in Action: From Concept to Code
• SOLID in Swift
• 
Recreate Apple's Stopwatch: Mastering Millisecond Precision in SwiftUI
• SwiftCraft 2024 Video
• Alternative App Icons in Xcode 16
• New in Xcode16: the macro @Previewable
• SwiftUI – Support Prior iOS Versions – Backward Compatibility
• Embedded Swift and 16×16 LED Matrix Animation Overview
• Preview Updates in Xcode 16
• Auto Scrolling Infinite Carousel – iOS 18
• 
LinksKit – A handy SwiftUI view for displaying shared links
• SymSpellSwift – spelling correction and fuzzy search
• SwiftUI Flow Layout – flow layout on SwiftUI
Android
• How the Android project metrics collector works
• Drawing Stars: Painting with Compose and Canvas
• Koin: how to make your DI in 10 minutes
• Send bitcoins from Android (and watch transactions)
• A new approach to secure state management in Kotlin applications
• Creating notifications in Kotlin
• Gemini Nano is now available on Android in experimental mode
• What is Hilt
• ImageVector vs painterResources — Under the hood
• Why fullMode hates Gson so much?
• Optimized Image Loading for Compose and Kotlin Multiplatform
• Demystifying the Android Build Process: A Deep Dive into APK Generation
• Quick introduction to Large Language Models for Android developers
• How to Ripple Outside of Compose Material
• Our journey with composite animations
• A Beginner's Guide to Building Android from AOSP
• Exploring the Declarative Nature of Jetpack Compose
• Startup Profiles: The Quick Fix for Painfully Slow App Startups
• Jetpack Compose Tutorials and Playground
• Using kotlin-inject in a Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform project
• How to bring your AI Model to Android devices
• A quick glance at AppWidget
• Implementing Type-Safe Multi-Module Nested Navigation in Bottom Navigation using Jetpack Compose
• Weather App For Android Wear OS Using Compose
• How to “Safely” Migrate from Retrofit to Ktor
• Integrating the Gemini API in Android
• How to Navigate From ViewModels With a Custom Navigator
• Android Application with Microsoft Identity Platform
• Applying the Factory Method and Abstract Factory Patterns in Kotlin
• YourSpace – family locator and communication
Cross platform
• How does Dart VM execute your code?
• Inspectify: KMP network inspection library
• Hotwire Native
• A Simple way to organize your code in Flutter
• Automate Your Flutter Environment Setup: One Script to Configure It All
• Realistic folder opening animation in Flutter
• 2D Game in Flutter using Flame
• Multiplayer drawing with Flutter and Serverpod. Full tutorial.
• Texty – text with various styles, effects and animations for Compose Multiplatform
Development
• How can I replace Firebase – Discussion on Reddit
• 10 SDKs to improve your mobile application
• 3 Tips to Improve Code Readability
• Developers get little, if any, benefit from AI assistants
• Aspect Build received $3.85M to improve its experience with Bazel
• September's highest paying jobs in app development
• Dismissal cannot be tolerated
• Lua is the perfect embeddable language
• ⅔ of Russian companies use IT sharing
• Shadow Calls and Circuit Breakers: Uber's Safe Approach to Mobile Network API Migration
• It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans
• Don't Be Afraid to Re-Invent the Wheel
• Evolving GitHub Issue
• A Local-First Case Study
• Why do programmers need private offices with doors?
• From Manual Pain to Automation Chaos: Finding the Right Balance
• Giving depth to your App Icons
• The reality of the developer job market with ex-Googler YK Sugi
Analytics, marketing and monetization
• The most downloaded and earning applications in Russia in September 2024
• iOS 18's new request to share contacts poses a threat to new social apps
• Epic sues Samsung and Google
• Napkin is a note-taking app that doesn't aim to make you more productive.
• New Wordy app helps you learn language while watching movies and shows
• We design A/B experiments competently
AI, Devices, IoT
• When the vehicle does not have a GNSS system…
• A new approach to secure state management in Kotlin applications
• How they scaled machine learning at Cooper and what came out of it
• Looking for lost pets using neural networks
• OpenAI launches “Canvas” for programming with ChatGPT
• Poolside, an AI programming company, raised $500 million
• Nvidia has discovered a new AI model ready to compete with GPT-4
• Ello teaches kids to read and uses AI to let kids create their own stories
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