Mobile Development Week #500 (July 31 – August 6)

In the new anniversary edition, we create default avatars and explore TipKit, write a completely native GUI application without Android and pass Android interviews, learn the rules for creating beautiful interfaces, defeat server tips, explore the mobile experience and much more!

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iOS

• Create default user avatars in SwiftUI
• Adding learning moments to apps with TipKit
• Sticky Header in SwiftUI
• Who are you SwiftData
• GC, ARC, RAM. Part 3 iOS
• The Composable Architecture has reached version 1.0: what is it
• Thread Safety in Swift
• Adding teachable moments to your apps with TipKit
• Swift Macros
• Composable Architecture 1.0
• Animating Carrousel Transitions in SwiftUI
• DocC Tutorial for Swift: Automating Publishing With GitHub Actions
• Observation Framework in iOS 17
• Crafting a Swift Package Plugin for App Data Protection
• Unit Testing with async/await
• iOS Interview Guide: Custom higher-order functions in Swift
• Modularized Navigation in SwiftUI – An Enum-based Approach
• The Large Title UINavigationBar Glitches and How to Fix Them
• Localization testing in Xcode
• SwiftUI Tutorial: Navigation
• Streamlining Similar View Controllers: A Swift Tutorial to Embrace the Refactor Mindset
• Mastering StoreKit 2
• How to automate taking screenshots with fastlane for iOS
• How to use type erasure in Swift with a real example
• Advanced async testing: Unstructured concurrency
• Animate background with color gradient in SwiftUI
• Understanding iOS Memory Management With Toy Analogies
• What I’ve learned implementing Swift Macros: 5 takeaways
• SwiftUI Animated Tags View – Layout API
• SwiftData Basics Tutorial: How to Easily Persist Data in SwiftUI
• How to format physical units in Swift using MeasurementFormatter
• SharePlay – Turn your app experience into a shared experience
• SwiftUI: Scroll to Hide Tab Bar
• visionOS 30 Days: development lessons for visionOS
• iTorrent: torrent client for iOS

Android

• The sources are closed, but we will not give up: We write a completely native GUI application for a No-Name smartphone without Android
• On the other side of feedback: how Android interviews work and what we expect from candidates
• The best companion in your creative process: Android Studio Bot VS ChatGPT for Developers
• Animation optimization on Compose: we twist loaders, look for non-obvious functions
• Android indie development: pains, ideas and earnings
• How Google Defeated Android Fragmentation
• State of Databases 2023 study
• Designing a Functional Library
• Jetpack Compose for Maps
• Deep dive into Live Edit for Jetpack Compose UI
• Modeling the domain layer using composable use cases
• Lazy Grids for Android TV using Jetpack Compose
• Fluent and Fun Clean Architecture using Kotlin
• How to create a chatbot with Firebase Firestore and PaLM on Android
• Try the K2 compiler in your Android projects
• Android WorldwideJuly 2023
• Gradle Cache: Your build’s best friend
• Firebase Dynamic Links Depricated! Migrate to Android App Links
• Passing events from Composable functions to MVI ViewModels
• How I became an Android Developer
• Android 13 Runtime Notification Permission: XML & Jetpack Compose Guide
• Debugging Alarms with ADB
• Using String Resources in a ViewModel
• Debugging Google Maps App Issue on Android
• Debugging the recomposition in Jetpack Compose
• Clok: The math behind the clock
• Fixing touch target size in PLR
• Live Edit for Jetpack Compose
• Android Studio Giraffe stable release, New Samsung foldables, and more dev news!
• Top App Bar (Toolbar) – UX With Material3
• Selection UI Components (Checkboxes, Switches, Radio Buttons) – UX With Material3
• Android WorldwideJuly 2023
• Stable Diffusion AI: custom image generator for Android
• Compose Adaptive Scaffold: Easy Large Screen Support

Cross platform

• The future of iOS development on Flutter
• How we made an online code editor on Flutter
• Mobile multi-platform development at McDonald’s
• Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) becomes Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP)
• Mobile application for eCommerce: cross-platform development experience
• Popular apps using Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) in 2023 — and what you can learn from them
• Intercepting Ktor Network Responses in Kotlin Multiplatform
• A Deep Look Into Flutter Databases
• How we reduced bundle size by 15% with patching package
• How To Use Lints In Flutter
• Storing data from the Flutter app → Google Sheets
• Enhance your React Native Application Performance
• Understanding Keys, Elements, RenderObjects and their interplay in Flutter
• The basics of Layout Animations in React Native Reanimated
• Firebase Analytics in Flutter app

Development

• No designer needed. Rules for creating beautiful UIs
• How a small neurolinguistic model in Keyboard defeated server prompts
• BDUI, multi-step and backend driven analytics
• How we launched the official Russian app store RuStore
• How we implemented push notifications in the messenger — from basic sending to working out the conditions
• Nielsen heuristics on the example of real applications
• Development of mobile applications: key principles of product and project approaches
• Myths and legends about mobile app security
• Avito Security Meetup
• Podlodka #329: where does Big Data start
• July’s Highest Paid App Development Jobs
• What is mainline development
• A WWDC Design Lab Made My App So Much Better
• Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing
• Explaining Vector Databases in 3 Levels of Difficulty
• 5 UX Secrets Behind the Success of Threads App by Meta
• How DoorDash Migrated from StatsD to Prometheus
• ORIDE – UX Case Study
• A Realistic Day of a Product Manager’s Life at Microsoft
• vertical vs. Horizontal Cards: Which Are Better?
• Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• What is a good conversion to paying user?
• Bloom teaches Generation Z about investing
• The most downloaded and earning applications in Russia in July 2023
• DSP: differences and advantages of lookalike and predictive models. Part 2
• IronZen: how we solved the pain of thousands of anxious people by developing our own mobile application
• The Power of Streak: Increasing the Engagement of Learning Apps
• RuStore now has the ability to download applications for TV
• Mobile Experience 2023 Embrace Report
• $100 million: Inworld – AI for NPCs
• Amazon Clinic launched in all states
• Pokemon Sleep hits 2 million installs
• Which countries release the most mobile games?
• Rewind has released an iPhone app that will help you remember everything

AI, Devices, IoT

• Analytics and optimization of batteries in IoT devices
• We automate ventilation in an apartment of 200 m²: the budget is not limited
• Kincony KC868-A4S: like A4, only (S)UPER
• Yet another UDP transport
• Ray-Ban smart glasses are almost never used
• Snapchat launches new AR lens rewards program
• AI Companion App: A lightweight stack for creating and hosting your own AI companions

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