Weekly Issue #30
Curated newsletter for iOS, Android, and Cross Platform mobile developers.
🔥 Quick News
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
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
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 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