The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 349 developer (on June 15 - 21)

In the new digest, we again deal with dark themes, with Apple’s monopoly, with the recent release of Android 11 and testing difficulties, with UX borders and download scaling.

Mobile development: individually or as a team?

From the point of view of methodology, there is an interesting detail in educational projects: we use two approaches in training – individual and team. Some teachers build the curriculum based on tight teamwork, while others, on the contrary, rely on the individual work of each student.

Dark theme vs Light theme: which is better?

But, leaving aside the discussion about the aesthetics of a dark topic, is it really good for the eyes? Does a dark theme really increase productivity with text? Raluca Budiu of the Nielsen Norman Group provides comprehensive answers.

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iOS

• (+9) simctl: control Apple simulators through a terminal
• (+3) Sign in with Apple – Deadline June 30
• (0) HorizontalList using SwiftUI
• (0) SwiftUI on the shelves: Animation, part 2 – timings
• Apple has opened a new forum for developers

• The creators of the mail client Hey accused Apple of extortion + Match Group and Epic Games support trial with Apple

• App Store app turnover exceeded $ 500 billion in 2019

• CAGradientLayer Explanation

• 6 Core Data Performance Tips

• How to process images from an iOS camera in real time

• How to implement Dynamic Loader with Lottie and Firebase

• Build your own button library from scratch in SwiftUI

• MemoryLayout in Swift

• Create awesome loading indicators using SwiftUI

• HorizonCalendar: Airbnb Calendar

• MultiProgressView: Animated Progress Bars

Android

• (+15) Android 11 Beta and Developer Updates
• (+18) Litho: best practices for creating an effective UI in Android
• (+6) How to disable the warning about the dangers of long listening to audio (Android)
• (+5) Android Camera2 API from the teapot, part 6. Stream video – first encoded, now decode
• (+5) MVP for Android – the benefits of using Moxy as a helper library
• (+4) We configure GitHub Actions for Android with the subsequent deployment in PlayMarket
• (+1) How and why do we use several map engines in inDriver
• (+1) Android Development: Career Review for May 2020
• Following Android 11 Beta

• Exploring the New Google Play Console: A Big Step Forward

• Google Play Billing Library Version 3 Released

• Start on Android with Dmitry Vinogradov

• Choosing the right layout for Android

• AndroidX: App Startup

• Exploring Android Dependency Injection – Dagger, Koin, and Kodein

• Practical Guide for OutOfMemoryError Solution in Android Application

• Why do we need a Jetpack Compose?

• WebRTC on Android: how to enable hardware encoding on multiple devices

• What’s New in Android Studio System Trace

• Making a snooker for Android with physics-based animations

• Introducing Pixel: New Kotlin Image Upload Library for Android

• Amaz Timer: smartwatch timer

• Meow Framework: MVVM and material design

Development

• (+28) How we outweighed the mechanics of ballistic calculation for a mobile shooter with a network delay compensation algorithm
• (+21) Organization-wide reuse of UI components
• (+15) How to reduce the registration of damage under compulsory motor liability insurance from a few days to 60 minutes
• (+14) Olya, tests and factory – the path to beautiful architecture and clean code
• (+5) Async / await in Unity
• (+3) Do you want to be given the correct design task? Help the product put it
• (+2) How to eliminate blind spots with visual testing
• (+2) Training smart gaming rivals in Unity using the “play with yourself” method using ML-Agents
• (+1) Tester masks (questions for a successful transition to a tester personality disorder)
• Podlodka # 168: gamification of processes

• Application Design: Examples for Inspiration # 5

• 5 services for managing mobile subscriptions

• You are not google

• Overly complicated? Too easy? Effective UX Border

• 8 Tips for Improving Your Interface Quickly

• How to make ui animation natural and pleasing to the eye: physical laws in interface animation in practice

• Swift or Kotlin – which is better?

• Adding Cloud Object Detection to Home Camera System

• Classic mistakes made by every developer

• How to hide your API keys

• 10 ideas from Apple’s user interface design guide

• Redesign of a banking application with neomorphism

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (0) Fast Lifehack for Application Growth – ASO in Other Languages
• How I scaled the application from 0 to 100,000 downloads without a single dollar spent

• Mobile stores show an incredible level of involvement – sales in 2020 increased by 40%

• Google launched a counterpart to Pinterest – the Keen social network

• FAS refused to soften the pre-installation of Russian applications

• Study: the volume of the Russian mobile games market grew by 49% in 2019

• ASO application audit and universal recommendations

• myTarget added new metrics in campaign analytics

• The Pokemon Company teaches children to brush their teeth with Pokemon Smile

• Spike receives $ 8 million to make email look like chat

• Multiformat, square and vertical video: the best mobile ad formats for setting

• Antikeys: why the number of conversions diverges in Google Ads and in analytics for iOS-application

• What affects the position of the application in the App Store and Google Play

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+123) The hardest task in Computer Vision
• (+46) ABBYY NeoML: How We Made The Machine Learning Library And Why We Need It
• (+37) How to understand that a neural network will solve your problem. Pragmatic leadership
• (+37) A full cycle of device creation and work with factories in China. Yandex Report
• (+19) Antiquities: Decade of Apple iPad
• (+14) Event2Mind for the Russian language. How we taught the model to read between the lines and understand the intentions of the interlocutor
• (+8) Smart home in a smart city
• Huawei became the first in the smartphone market for the first time