Weekly Issue #30

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

🔥 Quick News

• Android Studio 4.2.2 available

• Announcing the Ionic Framework v6 Beta

• Qualcomm can beat Apple M1 chip, says CEO, thanks to ex-Apple engineers

• Should you install the iOS 15 public beta? Here’s what to consider

• Here’s how Android apps on Windows 11 are going to work

• Google app for iOS hides a fun pinball game Easter egg; here’s how to access it

• Google is building support for digital COVID vaccine cards into Android

🍎 iOS Tech Articles

• Linting vs Formatting: A Swift Guide (Part 1) - Jason Zurita

• The many faces of button in SwiftUI - Majid

• Dismissing a SwiftUI modal or detail view - John Sundell

• Apple's DocC is excellent, but unusable for open source projects - Jesse Squires

• Meet Async/Await - Abhishek Jadhav

• Optional SwiftUI views - John Sundell

• New Formatters in iOS 15: Why do we need another formatter - Sarunw

• Using UISheetPresentationController in SwiftUI - Donny Wals

• SwiftUI patterns evolution: view builders - FiveStars

• Xcode DocC - Getting Started - Keith Harrison

• How to share an iOS distribution certificate - Sarunw

• How to master grid layout in iOS with SwiftUI - Kristaps Grinbergs

• Is SwiftUI ready? - Jesse Squires

🤖 Android Tech Articles

• The future of Android App Bundles is here - Dom Elliott

• Play Dev ID requirements + 2-Step Verification - Luke Jefferson, Raz Lev

• Bluetooth Pairing - Mark Allison

• Android 12 review for developers - Kirill Rozov

• Edge-to-edge support for your Android app with Insetter - Filipe Alves

• MAD Skills Navigation Series 2 Wrap Up! - Murat Yener

⚔️ Cross Platform Articles

• Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile for AppCode - Stanislav Dombrovsky

• Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile— Solving network responses with teamwork - Guilherme Delgado

• Native Bridging for iOS and Android in React Native - Rupesh Chaudhari

• Flutter design: make your theme homogeneous - David Gonzalez

• Avoid The Notch With SafeAreaView in React Native Apps - Chukwudi Ezichi

• Explore Asynchrony Primer for Dart & Flutter - Shaiq Khan

• Exploring Flutter Navigator 2.0: VRouter - Naveen Srivastava

• Push Notifications: Why You Want Them & How to Build Them Into Your App (Part 1 of 2) - Aman Mittal

📈 Amazing Dev Blogs

• Full Stack Developer Roadmap 2021 - Hidayt Rahman

• Big(O) Notation summarized! - Chinedu

• GitHub Copilot - Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Developers? - Catalin Pit

• 7 Essential Books for Programmers - Giorgos Petkakis

• Facebook Storage Infrastructure: How Facebook Cuts Costs by Managing BLOB Storage Life Cycle - Sayed Alesaway

• The 10 Most Valuable Lessons I Learned As A Developer - Oliver Jumpertz

🚀 Dev Tools

• Bagel - Little Native iOS network debugger

• Wormholy - Start debugging iOS network calls like a wizard

• Xcodes.app - The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.

  (Personally I tried XCodes app, and its amazing 🤩)

🎤 Events & Webinars

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 20 - 22 -Droidcon Berlin - €119 - €359

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

November

• [Call for Speakers] - Nov 10 - 11 - Droidcon NYC, $295 - $495

• [Call for Speakers] - Nov 11 - 12 - Droidcon Italy

December

• Dec 13 - 14 -Droidcon San Fransisco - $295 - $495