Mobile Development Weekly #549 (July 29 – August 4)

The new digest features $0 mobile deployment pipelines and the not-so-scary Metal, Selenoid without simulation and weird descriptions in the Play Store, adaptive layout on React Native, the decline of mobile development, paywall optimization, and much more. Join us!

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iOS

• Mobile Deployment Pipelines for $0
• Driver Will Arrive in 3 Minutes: Uber Live Activity Implementation on iOS
• Apple Releases Homomorphic Encryption Library for Swift
• iOS 18.1 Beta Released With Rudiments of Apple Intelligence
• Why Metal Isn't Scary Anymore
• Localization of iOS application for $1 in 2024
• Accessibility Setting Nuggets from iOS 18
• Async and Await in Swift: Advanced Guide for Senior iOS Developers
• The Meme that gave me Imposter Syndrome
• SwiftUI app lifecycle: issues with ScenePhase and using AppDelegate adapters
• Using @DebugDescription in Xcode 16
• Building Swift Executables
• Creating a Sunburst Chart
• How to Tile Images in SwiftUI
• Xcode is actually a great IDE
• Navigation Patterns in SwiftUI
• How to programmatically parse the contents of an XCResult bundle
• Translating text in your SwiftUI app with the Translation framework
• How the Medium iOS team works effectively with legacy code
• Building an iOS Networking SDK
• SwiftUI Floating Bottom Sheets
• How to Refactor SwiftUI into Reusable Views
• SwiftUI App Intro Animation's – Shape Morphing Effect
• Xcode File Headers and Macros
• How to Use TextField Keyboard Focus in SwiftUI with FocusState
• SafeDI — Safe Compile-time Dependency Injection in Swift
• DominantColors — the main colors in the image

Android

• Selenoid without simulation: setup, debugging and automation on a physical Android device
• Accessibility Issues When Using a Custom Card Stack Layout
• Gradle + GitLab: efficient and free build cache
• Do You Need to Learn Java for Android Development in 2024
• AI Generates Weird Descriptions in Play Store
• Android MVVM Architecture Interview Questions
• Command Your User Inputs with Jetpack Compose— Text Field Features Hidden in Plain Sight
• Lint Revisit: Providing Alternatives
• Creating Scalable Composables in Jetpack Compose
• Using kotlin-inject in a Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform project
• Architecture related decisions in Android — Response classes
• Advanced Kotlin Coroutine Cheat sheet
• Assisted Injection a New Update in Hilt
• Android Interview Questions with Kotlin Coroutines
• Mastering Regex Groups
• Advanced layout animations in Compose (Shared elements)
• Compose Tips for Delightful UI
• Compose Migration Side Effects – What Can Go Wrong?
• Building Libraries for the Next 25 Years
• Turbocharge Your Data: Harnessing Kotlin and gRPC to Handle Real-Time Data From Connected Cars
• Grow with the Flow: How Kotlin Flow Became a Game Changer for our Business
• Coroutines: Concurrency in Kotlin
• Kotlin Design Patterns & Best Practices – Part 1: Build a Chess Game
• ImageCropView – Image Cropping in Jetpack Compose
• Giphy Trending – Popular with Giphy

Cross platform

• Adaptive layout on React Native
• The Complete Guide to Flutter Testing. Part 5: Mocktail + Part 4: Advanced Unit Testing
• State Management on Flutter. Introduction to Bloc
• Making It Easier to Work with Theme Extensions in Flutter: Style Generation Tools and Packages
• KMP on Aurora OS: Problems and Solutions
• Reducing App Size and Memory Usage in Flutter
• Why Kotlin Multiplatform Teams Should Share Source, not Binaries
• Desktop app development with Flutter
• App clip wi7th React Native and New Arch (and Swift)
• Shake It Up with CMPShakeDetection: Integrating Fun in Compose Multiplatform
• The Kotlinx DateTime API for Compose Multiplatform
• How to Implement Drag & Drop in Jetpack Compose
• How to Combine animations with AnimatedBuilder
• Hitchhiker's Guide to Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries
• Build an Uber clone with Flutter and Supabase
• Fantasy Premier League — Fantasy Football on Kotlin Multiplatform

Development

• The decline of mobile development
• July's Highest Paying App Development Jobs
• Bumble and Hinge allowed users to be located with an accuracy of 2 meters
• Algorithmic session at interview
• Automatic generation of layout for Server-driven UI from Figma layouts
• Learning to negotiate about money – Offers, Salaries, Promotions
• Design systems are too trendy, maybe you don't need them
• Going Indie: From Side Project to Going Independent
• Google's secret to painless code reviews
• How Passwordless Authentication Works – A Deep Dive
• Perfectionism — one of the biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry
• I Built a 2D Game in 40 Minutes with Ebiten
• 80% of developers are unhappy. The problem is not AI, nor is coding
• I recreated Shazam's algorithm with Go
• How to get a FAANG Dev Job in your 40s

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• Paywall Optimization – A Success Story
• MONOPOLY GO! Earns $3 Billion Fastest
• App Market in H1 2024 — Apptica Report
• Top 3 Short Drama Streaming Apps Make $3 Million Per Day
• Chick-fil-A Launches In-App Game, Achieves Highest Number of Daily Downloads in History
• Product design metrics in Domclick

AI, Devices, IoT

• Zeekr Master Account. How can Arduino help your Chinese car?
• Machine Learning Engineer – Google's New Learning Path

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