The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 330 developer (on January 20 – 26)

Hypercube. How we provided developers with test devices and did not lose them

It is impossible to fully test and debug mobile applications without test devices. There should be many such devices, because the same code on different models behaves differently. But how to organize device accounting? How to make developers and testers quickly and without red tape get a specific smartphone in the necessary configuration?

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iOS

• (+17) Swift property wrappers
• (+13) 20 libraries for a spectacular iOS application
• (+9) Mess at the start: post-mortem on the launch speed of an iOS application
• (+6) Architecture issues in large projects
• (+4) Validation of data in iOS applications
• (+4) Swift: Containers for storing key values
• (+3) Option for working with web sockets in iOS in Swift language
• Apple restricts use of HTML5

• StrizhPI, or SwiftUI in practice

• How to double your Apple Membership subscription (and quickly return it)

• The Ten Commandments of iOS Development

• Can you answer this simple question about Swift correctly?

• Best iOS apps with Interaction-Driven design

• Machine learning on the device using SwiftUI and PyTorch Mobile

• SwiftUI: Create Tinder-style flip cards

• The best way to make sure your Swift code never crashes again

• What’s new in Watch OS 6?

• Asynchronous programming in Swift with Future and Promise

• Display HTML-code with a picture in UILabel and the definition of clicking on it

• Swift: Common Task Tips

• SwiftUI – Using Xcode 11 Canvas

• Speech recognition and speech synthesis on iOS with Swift

• Implementing context menus in iOS 13 using SwiftUI or UIKit

• VVVVVV for iOS and tvOS

Android

• (+14) Incremental annotation proccesing to speed up gradle builds
• (+12) Repair, hack, dig. Solving the online quest Droid Mission
• (+6) Practical ways to map data in Kotlin
• (+4) External component for 1C Mobile platform (BroadcastReceiver)
• Google I / O 2020 will be held May 12-14

• Microsoft Releases Surface Duo Dual-Screen Smartphone SDK

• Google has released new applications to combat smartphone addiction

• Android Developer Roadmap 2019: Skill Map and Android Developer Development Model

• Welltory removed from Google Play

• Jetpack Compose Guide

• Trojan Shopper downloads applications and leaves reviews on Google Play

• Changing types in Kotlin with typealias

• Dynamically change themes using circular animation on Android

• KotlinConf 2019: what’s new in Java 19: The end of Kotlin?

• JetPack Navigation component in Android

• Zero cost of abstraction in Kotlin

• How to use tabs in Jetpack Compose?

• Best Android Studio Hot Keys

• SharedPreferences on Android

• Quest Google I / O 2020

• KotlinMultiPlatform: cross-platform weather on Kotlin

• RateBottomSheet: offer to rate the application

Development

• (+32) Simple zombie shooter on Unity
• (+27) Physics for a mobile PvP shooter, or how we remade a two-dimensional game into a three-dimensional
• (+27) Flutter. Part 3. For React Native Developers
• (+23) Engine, scripting language and visual novel – in 45 hours
• (+18) Features of implementing dynamic lists in user interfaces
• (+16) Level design basics: flow effect or how not to let the player get bored
• (+13) Love to hate indie gamedev’a
• (+10) Book “Development of mobile applications in C # for iOS and Android”
• (+10) How I did 2D shadows in Unity
• (+7) My first html5 game, from Alice Yandex and award victories to mobile applications
• (+7) Optimization of 3D models for the game scene
• (+6) Is mobile development easy and boring? Yandex Report
• (+6) Writing shaders with code in Unity LWRP
• (+4) Visual logic editor for Unity3d. Part 2
• (+2) UI development: whom to listen to – yourself or the user?
• Podlodka # 147: Web Framework

• Wait, the operation is in progress. How the main fakap in the history of Sberbank Online changed the company

• Ministry of Economy proposes to create a Russian analogue of GitHub

• Hierarchy Basics in Interface Design

• Gamification: what and why it works, part one

• What (almost) 2 years Flutter taught me

• 8 trends of UI design for 2020

• 21 ways to be a bad developer

• 7 Ways to Be a Good Developer

• How to measure your UX design skills?

• Nebula – an open global network stack from Slack

• 9 tips to quickly improve your app design

• 5 design principles for the best products

• Video Mobiconf 2019

• LaunchDarkly: feature management

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+4) Getting Started with User Returns: Tips for the Hooked Model
• (+3) 2019 App Annie Report: A Look into the Past, Future Notes
• U.S. app subscriptions rose 21% in 2019 to $ 4.6 billion

• Niantic Games Brings $ 249 Million Tourist Income

• Venmo stickers

• FAS has identified a list of applications for pre-installation

• In-app advertising: checklist

• A book on the localization and culturalization of games

• Mobile advertising spending in Russia will grow by 22.2%

• Snyk received a new investment and became a unicorn

• AppsFlyer received a new investment of $ 210 million.

• You drive! AR Story Games – The Main Trend of 2019

• Dodo Pizza bought Where’s the Shawarma

• Race Slack, Microsoft Teams and Workplace: one intrigue died, a new one was born

• 1000 game settings in 2 days with TikTok

• Understanding Players Better with Affinity Learning

• How to deal with fraudulent spyware on Facebook?

• ASO challenges for mobile games in 2020

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+39) SVM Explanation from scratch, implementation and detailed analysis
• (+28) Stop calling everything AI
• GitHub started using AI to recommend tasks

• Uber has put together one of the most impressive open source deep learning stacks

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