Weekly Issue #29

Curated newsletter for iOS, Android, and Cross Platform mobile developers.

Hello 👋,

How are you doing? I am writing this newsletter on a macOS 12 beta. Looks like all the beta released in the last month (macOS, iPadOS, iOS and Android 12) are without breaking issues. I installed iOS 15 on my secondary iPhone and used for a week and installed it on the main device today. Hope nothing breaks in future beta.

Do you install a beta on your phone or laptop? Do let us know here.

Hackathon Alert:

Are you guys ready for few challenges? HarperDB partnering with Hashnode and conducts an online hackathon.

🔥 What's Happening Around

• Chinese app ban still very possible under Biden’s executive order

• Apple’s A-series chip roadmap on track; Intel’s laptop business to nose-dive

• Leica phone announced by SoftBank in Japan

• Honor confirms Google’s apps will return to its phones with new 50 series

• Criminals in Brazil are stealing people’s iPhones to access bank accounts, not resell the devices

• Here’s a tour of the first Google Store in New York City [Gallery]

• Pixel 5 and 4a 5G inventory running low on the US Google Store

• Apple confirms Apple Music Lossless coming soon to India

• Google Assistant ‘Live Space’ is a major ‘At a Glance’ upgrade for Android 12 and Material You

• New Gmail with Google Chat rolling out for free accounts, here’s how to turn on [Updated]

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🍎 iOS Tech Articles

• A new way to style UIButton with UIButton.Configuration in iOS 15 - Sarunw

• 🔊 “Structured concurrency” with special guest Doug Gregor - John Sundell

• How to use a pre-release Swift version in Xcode - Sarunw

• Table and Collection View Cells Reload Improvements in iOS 15 - Lee Kah Seng

• How to control safe area insets in SwiftUI - Five Stars

• Create a web browser with WebKit and SwiftUI - Benoit Pasquier

• WWDC 2021 Viewing Guide - Keith Harrison

• Mastering List in SwiftUI - Majid

• Bindable SwiftUI list elements - John Sundell

• Mixing static and dynamic linking in CocoaPods - Tommaso Madonia

• Automatic conversions between Double and CGFloat values in Swift 5.5 - John Sundell

• Using the MainActor attribute to automatically dispatch UI updates on the main queue - John Sundell

• An introduction to synchronizing access with Swift’s Actors - Donny Wals

• Top 8 SwiftUI libraries to use in 2021 - William Kurniawan

🤖 Android Tech Articles

• Announcing requireKTX - Márton Braun

• How to Show an Activity on Lock Screen instead of a Notification - Victor Brandalise

• Build sophisticated search features with AppSearch - Dan Saadati, Haana ElAzizi

• 💥 The Story of My First A-ha Moment With Jetpack Compose - Adib Faramarzi

• Improve your app mileage with Android for Cars App library - Madan Anakapura

• Migration to compose - Hongbeom

• Navigation: Multiple back stacks - MAD Skills - Murat Yener

⚔️ Cross Platform Articles

• What's new in React 18 ? - Mudit Jain

• Top 7 React Native UI toolkits and component libraries in 2021 - Gorrion Software House

• Flutter VS React Native - Salman Ali

• Comparing Mobile Development Platforms in 2021 - Piero Borrelli

• How To Use Providers For Enhanced State Management - Sachin Singh

• A Year as a Flutter Developer - Alistair Holmes

• Introduction to Javascript and how it is helping the Mobile App Industry - Sahil Negi

• Localization / Multi-Language In Flutter - Naveen Srivastava

• How To Integrate Flutter To Existing Android App? - Naveen Srivastava

📈 Amazing Dev Blogs

• Introduction to Accessibility - Tiger Abrodi

• Introduction into Domain-Driven Design (DDD) - Jannik Wempe

• Master Binary in Five Minutes - Valeria

• 10 Must-Have VS Code Extensions to Improve Your Productivity - Alex Omeyer

• 25 Git commands I use daily and you should know - The Dev Definitive

• How to Support Junior Developers - Anna J McDougall

🚀 Dev Tools & New Apps worth checking out

• Apostrophe - The website builder platform you've been looking for.

• dewey - Get the most out of your Twitter Bookmarks

• Super - Build websites with the simplicity of Notion

• Namify - Build a memorable online brand easily with this business name generator

• Spotify Greenroom - Talk music, sports and culture live. (Clubhouse like feature app from Spotify)

• Retool - Build internal tools, remarkably fast

• Unfreeze - Simple macOS application that performs OCR on code snippet images.

🎤 Events & Webinars

June / July 2021

• [Online] - June 23 - 24, App Design & Development conference, €99 to €299.

• 28 June - 01 July - Mobile World Congress - Barcelona, Spain. €699 to €4195.

July 2021

• July 12 - 13 - Google for Games Developer Summit 2021

September

• [Online] Sep 23 - 24 - CodeLand - Motivation & Career-Long Connections For Early-Career Devs

• [Online] - iConf’21 , Sep 27 - 28

October

• [Online] October 7 - 8 -Kotlin Global Summit by Geekle, Free - $399

• Oct 7 -Swift Leeds, £140.00

• [Call for Speakers] - Oct 28 - 29 -Droidcon London, £205 – £505

November

• [Call for Speakers] - Aug 30 - 31 - Droidcon NYC, $295 - $495

💼 Job Alert

• iOS Engineer, MOJO

• IOS Software Engineer, RocketPlan

• Senior Android Engineer, GoPay (GoJek)