Hello Devs,

Hope this festive season brings more joy and prosperity to you and your family. Thanks to everyone for staying together in this tough pandemic situation. May 2021 brings good things into your life. Merry Christmas 🎄🎅 and wish you a happy new year 🎊🎉 2021.

Stay safe and keep coding.

🔥 Mobile Updates

• Opening the Google Play Store for more car apps - you can publish your apps to closed testing tracks in the Google Play Store. This is a great way to get feedback on how well your app meets the app quality guidelines, plus get your in-car experience in front of your first Android Auto users.

• Diversity in Swift - This initiative is focused on further elevating a wide variety of voices, and making it easier for developers to start learning or contributing to Swift, regardless of their background.

• Accessibility and Inclusion in the Swift Community - Diversity and inclusion are both critically important values when writing software designed to be used and enjoyed by everyone. The Swift community embraces these values, and we are excited to highlight ways to make sure everyone feels welcome, and bring even more people into the fold of Swift development.

🍎 iOS Articles

• The Large Title UINavigationBar Glitches and How to Fix Them - Lee Kah Seng (Swift Senpai)

• Apple 2020 Year In Review - Federico

• An alternative to SwiftUI's stacks + Spacer combo - Federico

• Creating dynamic dark mode images at runtime - Keith Harrison

• Swift If Case Let - Keith Harrison

• Hero animations in SwiftUI - Swift with Majid

• 🔊 “The 2020 Holiday Special” - John Sundell

• 200 weeks of Swift - John Sundell

• What type is self in a Swift self-executing anonymous closure used to initialize a stored property? - Jesse Squires

🤖 Android Articles

• KTX: Miscellaneous - Mark Allison

• How To Write Better Tests With JUnit 5 Android - Vlad Sonkin

• Ultimate Guide To Android Custom View - Vlad Sonkin

• How To Share Files With Android FileProvider - Vlad Sonkin

• The Quick Developers Guide to Migrate Their Apps to Android 11 - Sahil Sharma

• Building a Team Lineup View on Android - Guy Griv

• Kotlin Delegation by Inception - TJ

• Treble Plus One Equals Four - Iliyan Malchev, Amith Dsouza, and Veerendra Bhora

• What’s your MAD score? - Christopher Katsaros

⚔️ Flutter & React Native

Flutter

• Using json_serializable to Serialise Dart/Flutter Models - Paul Halliday

• Improving Rendering Performance in Flutter App - Shivanchal Pandey

• Local Authentication in Flutter — Passcode - Anmol Gupta

• Implementing Phone calls In Flutter apps - Anmol Gupta

• Detective, how to dramatically speed up debugging. - Norbert

• Edit a PDF in Flutter - David Gonzalez

• Flutter Animated Series (Animated Container) - Murtaza Sulaihi

React Native

• AsyncStorage Example – Persisting Login Credentials in React Native - Florian Marcu

• How to deep link from notification in react native app - Ankit Kumar

• Getting Started with React Native: Using the state hook - Gaurav Tewari

• Styling in React Native using Expo and Shopify's Restyle library - Maximilian Kaske

• AWS Amplify + React Native - Building A Blog App | Part 3 - Sankhadeep Roy

• React Native vs. Flutter: what to chose for cross-platform mobile development - Andrew Sushevich

📈 Trending Dev blogs

• 5 Traits of Good Developers - Shaundai Person

• {FREE} Ultimate Resources for Front-End Development in 2021 + Giveaway⚡ - Rahul

• How I Easily Code For 8+ Hours Without Feeling Tired (My Productivity System) - Nick Bull

• The Complete Etiquette Guide to Writing #programming Articles on Hashnode - Maxi Contieri

• How to Review Your Progress - Sam Julien

• The definitive iTerm2 & Oh-my-ZSH Setup on macOS - Lars Behrenberg

• Three things I wish I knew before becoming a software developer - Adrienne Tacke

🎤 Events & Webinars

January 2021

• Jan 12 - (Call for Paper) - Android Worldwide

• Jan 18 - Jan 22 (Call for Paper) - iOS Conf SG - 2021 (S$60 & S$210)

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