Mobile Development Weekly #556 (September 16 – 22)

In our new digest, iOS 18 widgets and SwiftUI design patterns, Flappy Bird in C for Android and the UseCase fallacy, the magic of links, native Swift on Android, stealing for future use as artists, and much more. Join us!

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iOS

• Ready-made UI component of swipe panel with addition of scrollView and other ui elements. (iOS Swift)
• Design Patterns for SwiftUI
• Using Traits to Annotate and Customize Test Behavior
• iOS 18 widgets: adding tint color support
• EU to tell Apple how to ensure DMA compatibility
• The weirdest Core Data crash I have seen
• Efficient Multithreading in iOS with Swift
• Notifications Your App can use to Increase Activation and Retention
• Thread safety with Mutex in Swift 6
• Optimizing Your iOS Project Setup with Xcodegen and SwiftGen
• Using Traits to annotate and customize test behavior
• +The Power of Custom ShapeStyle for SwiftUI Theming
• Recreating Readable Content Guide Sizing in SwiftUI
• What's New in SwiftUI for iOS 18
• Announcing Swift 6
• Mastering Data Binning with Swift Charts
• Discovering app features with TipKit. Groups
• AVAudioEffectNode: painless low level audio effects written in Swift
• Integrating 3rd-Party AI on Apple Platforms
• Building Intelligent Apps with Apple AI Models
• Let's Create Chips UI With iOS 18 APIs
• So, Let's create a Splash Screen | SwiftUI
• Discover 3 new features of Xcode 16
• SwiftData Previews: PreviewModifier in SwiftUI (iOS 18)
• Color Mixing in iOS 18
• Enhance App UI Animations with these 4 Modifiers
• AppState – Efficient State Management and Dependency Injection for Swift 6
• LinkNavigator – Simple and Powerful Navigation for SwiftUI
• AnimatedImage – Animate Images in Swift and SwiftUI

Android

• Flappy Bird in C for Android weighs only 92 Kilobytes APK
• UseCase Fallacy: What Android Developers Need to Know
• Magic of links Fast payment systems
• Create Shimmering Text in Jetpack Compose
• Gradle Convention Plugins: How to Make Your Life Easier and Reduce the Boilerplate in Gradle Files
• Keyboard interaction in Compose: features and pitfalls
• Improving autocompletion in mixed Java-Kotlin projects
• An application identical to the natural one: 7 ways to upgrade your pet project
• Create plugins and reusable parts in .gradle.kts files and Kotlin extension functions
• Native libraries for Android
• Earning on Open Source. Decompose. The Future of KMP. Arkady Ivanov
• Immortal application
• Taming UDF state-based architectures. Real cases in large applications
• Exploring Lifecycle-Aware Service and FirebaseMessagingService on Android
• Android 15: New Features for Android Developers
• Top 10 MVVM Mistakes We All Have Made
• How to build fully custom Jetpack Compose Bottom Sheets without using Material Compose
• Android: Catching NDK crashes
• RxJava to Kotlin Coroutines: The Ultimate Migration Guide
• View State Management & Coordination with Compose on Android
• Forecasting weather with Open-Meteo API using Jetpack Compose
• Clean Strings Handling in Android
• Design Server-Driven UI with Jetpack Compose and Firebase
• Android App Security Checklist for Developers
• How We Managed to Send Events Sequentially with Rate Limiting And Controlling Each Event?
• Complement your media editing pipeline with Jetpack Media3
• Android 15 Launch, a special guest spotlight, and more — Google Developer News September 2024
• The ONLY Correct Way to Load Initial Data In Your Android App?
• Save User Credentials With the Google Credential Manager – Android Studio Tutorial
• Overcoming Unsecurities in WebViews
• Beyond the Success of Kotlin
• Jetpack Compose For Beginners – Crash Course 2024
• Accrescent – Secure App Store for Android
• Measure — monitoring of mobile applications.

Cross platform

Native Swift on Android: Installation, Compilation, Launch and Testing
• Analysis of InheritedWidget in Flutter
• Flutter Hot Reload: What's under the hood?
• Compute – a magic pill?
• Another article about macros. Part 2 + Part 1
• React Native Splash Screen – support for different themes
• Simplify Form Management in Flutter with the FForm Package
• Flutter Dev Podcast #47: CrossConf Awards
• How to Add a Splash Screen to a Compose Multiplatform App
• Garbage Collector in KMP
• Flutter vs Native: Why Flutter Wins for TV App Development
• Garbage Collector in KMP
• A Startup Guide to Ship Mobile App Faster Using Flutter
• Exploring Kotlin Multiplatform: A Visual Guide
• KMP (Kotlin Multiplatform) AndroidX Room setup and more
• Building A Custom Design System in Compose Multiplatform
• 10 Common Flutter Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
• Extracting Original Values ​​from CValue in Kotlin Multiplatform: The Power of memScope

Development

• BDUI Basics for Product Designers. Cheat Sheet
• Your company needs junior developers
• How to monitor the status of a mobile application?
• Implementation of push notifications from web to mobile application for beginners
• What can be improved in the application? Part 3. Stealing like artists from Vprok
• Why You Should “Design Twice”
• Grade in IT
• How Yandex Mobile Ads SDK works
• SDUI Patterns
• Why We Keep Missing Project Deadlines
• Which JVM is the best? Java, JVM Architecture, GraalVM, HotSpot JVM
• Using feature flags in GraphQL
• Decoding Mobile Crashes: A Comparative Guide for Android and iOS
• Good software development habits
• You've only added two lines — why did that take two days!
• Should we decompose our monolith?
• How to Measure Progress in a Software Project
• Stop Designing Your Web Application for Millions of Users When You Don't Even Have 100
• How Optimizations made Mario 64 SLOWER
• Securing API Servers Course

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• $5 Photon Library Brings Back Old Photos for iOS
• Nurture teaches children important life skills through interactive games and fun
• SocialAI — AI Social Network for One Person
• Promoting Side Projects with Content-Driven Development
• Soundiiz – a simple tool for transferring playlists between music services
• The Most Downloaded and Earning Apps in the World in August 2024
• How not to get lost in four pines: choosing a way to find a cause-and-effect relationship without experiments
• How to Improve Retention: The Ultimate Guide for Product Managers and Leaders

AI, Devices, IoT

• How machine vision for autonomous vehicles has evolved. Yandex report
• Bluetooth beacons, are they useful?
• Mistral Launches Free Tier for Developers
• New Spectacles glasses are a little closer to good AR
• Slack is becoming a hub for AI agents

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