Weekly Issue #31

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

Hello 👋 ,

How are you guys doing? It's good to see you all again after a break for few weeks. Starting next week, we will be sending out the newsletter mid-week. Thanks a lot for all the support!!

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🔥 Quick News

• Apple Developer News and Updates: New metrics now available in App Analytics, Account deletion within apps required starting January 31, New “Report a Problem” link on product pages

• Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet - Facebook and its affiliated services WhatsApp and Instagram were, in fact, all down. Their DNS names stopped resolving, and their infrastructure IPs were unreachable. Read how it had happened.

• OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro get first beta of Android 12 - A combined Oxygen and Color OS is here

• HomeKit Weekly: Turn Halloween up a notch by using HomeKit to play tricks on guests looking for treats - Halloween is almost here, and HomeKit provides a lot of fun ways to automate your Halloween decorations to offer a little “cyber spooking” to trick or treaters as they come knocking

• Google Reader is still defunct, but now you can ‘follow’ RSS feeds in Chrome on Android - Google Reader is still defunct, but its spirit lives on in a “follow button” for Chrome that Google first started experimenting with in May. The RSS tracking feature was limited to the experimental Canary versions of Chrome on Android, but today the company has started enabling it on stable versions of the browser, according to Adrienne Porter Felt, a director of engineering on Chrome.

• Google sends out more invitations to join ‘Pixel Superfans’ community - Google has operated a “community” of Pixel’s “biggest fans” since at least 2019 — if not earlier. Earlier this week, Made by Google launched a new round of invites to join “Pixel Superfans.”

• Leaked internal factory videos show Pixel 6 Pro teardown & assembly process - With two weeks before Google officially announces and details the Pixel 6, more and more about the flagship devices are emerging. The latest Pixel 6 Pro leak is quite odd and appears to be internal assembly and teardown videos of the unreleased phone.

• Apple appeals ruling in Epic Games case and App Store changes could be delayed - Back in September, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers finally announced her decision in the case of Apple vs. Epic Games. Judge Rogers ruled that Apple could no longer forbid developers from redirecting users to third-party payment systems, but Apple is now appealing that ruling — which could delay such changes by years.

• Ex-Apple employee accused of leaking trade secrets now under criminal investigation - We learned back in May this year that Apple filed a lawsuit against its former materials lead, Simon Lancaster for allegedly stealing trade secrets about “Project X,” leaking them to the media, and more. Now in new legal documents, it’s surfaced that the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office has an open criminal investigation into Lancaster regarding Apple’s claims.

• When is Apple releasing a new MacBook Pro, and should you buy now or wait? - Rumors have long suggested that Apple is working on a new MacBook Pro refresh with Apple Silicon on the inside, a new design, and much more.

• Apple Japanese antitrust investigation opens, six weeks after another one closed - An Apple Japanese antitrust investigation was closed last month when the Cupertino company made a major concession. But just six weeks later, a new antitrust investigation has been opened in Japan, into the market dominance of iOS and Android.

🍎 iOS Tech Articles

• Programmatic navigation in SwiftUI - Swift by Sundell

• Curious Ways To Solve Tests Equality Problems in Swift - Leonardo Maia Pugliese

• Custom accessibility content in SwiftUI - Swift with Majid

• How iPad Apps Adapt to the New 8.3" iPad Mini - Geoff Hackworth

• Using Swift Scripts with Xcode - Raywenderlich Blog

• Advanced Environment propagation - Five Stars Blog

• Should every if statement has an else clause - SarunW

• What’s new in iOS 15 for Developers. - Pushpsen Airekar

• The SwiftUI Environment - Five Stars Blog

• Three brilliant ways to style button with SwiftUI - Kristaps Grinbergs

• How to present an alert in SwiftUI in iOS 15 - Sarunw

• 🎧 106: “Opportunities for optimization” with special guest Christian Selig - Swift by Sundell

• 🎧 Episode 49: I For One Welcome Our Safety Overlords - All about a discussion on what's new in Swift 5.5. - Code Completion.

🤖 Android Tech Articles

• Android 12 is live in AOSP! - Dave Burke in Android Developers Blog

• Mindful architecture: Headspace’s refactor to scale - Manuel Vicente Vivo in Android Developers Blog

• Answering your top questions on Android Game Development Kit - Wayne Lu in Android Developers Blog

• Manage Gradle version conflicts with resolution strategy - Merab Tato Kutalia

• Jetpack Compose with Robot Testing Pattern - Marco Cattaneo

• The road to the K2 compiler - Svetlana Isakova

• Kotlin Interview Cheat Sheet - Kapil Vij

• A Practical Guide to Kotlin's inline Modifier - Max Kim

⚔️ Cross-Platform Articles

• What’s new in Expo modules infrastructure - Brent Vatne

• Optional Imports in React Native - Chukwudi Ezichi

• Announcing React Native 0.66 - Luna Wei

• How to Create a Donut Chart using React Native SVG - Francisco Mendes

• Clean architecture of Flutter application - Part 2 - gandronchik. Part 1 of the article.

• Learn How to Encrypt Data in Flutter - Luciano Jung

• ScaleTransition Widget In Flutter - Shaiq Khan

• LongPressDraggable In Flutter - Shaiq Khan

📈 Amazing Dev Blogs

• 8 Non-technical ways to contribute to open-source - Chris Bongers

• Clean Conventional Commits - Jonathan Irvin

• Mistakes as a Beginner Programmer - Kritika Srivastava

• 15 Developer Tools to Make You Super Productive - Prosper Otemuyiwa

🚀 Dev Tools & New Apps worth checking out

• Linx - Linx is a low-code, general-purpose, back-end development tool. (APIs, integrations, automation).

• COSMOS - The Virtual HQ for remote teams to be together again

• Rowy - GCP as easy as ABC. Build on Google Cloud Platform in minutes.

• Bravo Studio 3.0 - The fastest mobile app building platform. Convert your designs into native apps, instantly.

• FlutterFlow Showcase - Available as sample apps so you don't have to start from scratch.

• Run[x] - Automated Infrastructure on any cloud. Create a secure, scalable, compliant Infrastructure stack for your startup in less than an hour.

• Blobr - Get your branded API portal, manage access, and monitor usage.

• Palitra App - The easiest way to find a color palette!

🎤 Events & Webinars

October

• Oct 20 - 22 - Droidcon Berlin, €119 - €359

• Oct 28 - 29 - Droidcon London, £205 – £556

November

• [Volunteer submission - October 20th] - Nov 10 - 11 - Droidcon NYC, $295 - $495

• [Call for Speakers] - Nov 11 - 12 - Droidcon Italy, €39 + €15 for merchandise.

December

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

  • Call for Speaker - Oct 18

  • Volunteer submission - Nov 30

January 2022

• [Virtual] Jan 17 - 21 - iOS Conf SG - 2022, S$70 to S$220 (Early-bird till 15th Nov)

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