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📺 Android Developer Story: Seekrtech grows from local to global with Google Play - Android Developers

New Releases:

• Xcode 12.4 RC, iOS 14.4 RC, iPadOS 14.4 RC, watchOS 7.3 RC, tvOS 14.4 RC

• OxygenOS 11 Open Beta 1 - Available for OnePlus 7/7T series

News:

• Apple finally publishes macOS Big Sur Sketch library for designers and developers - Nearly two months after macOS Big Sur’s public release, the Apple human interface team has finally released an updated Sketch library optimized for its top to bottom redesign. User interface designers and developers have been anxiously awaiting this new design kit for quite a while.

  

• Analysts expect Apple to grow 15% this year as work-from-home activities boost sales - In a new investors note, analysts at Morgan Stanley anticipate that Apple is expected to grow 15.1% over the next 12 months. Besides the strong sales of the iPhone 12 lineup, the company should benefit from prolonged work-from-home activities as customers are now buying more computers and tablets.

• iOS 14.4 RC now available to developers, here are the full release notes - The Release Candidate version of iOS 14.4 is now available to developers. Apple has also published the full release notes for the update, including new details on improvements to the Camera app, bug fixes, and much more.

• Google makes sharing websites opened with Chrome Custom Tabs easier - Chrome Custom Tabs are a widely adopted — with one notable exception — staple on Android that allows third-party apps to use the default Google browser when opening links. With Chrome 88 released earlier this week, Custom Tabs are gaining an experimental share button.

• Microsoft Edge gains password manager, Chrome-like themes, plus much more - The latest build of the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge is now rolling out with a ton of new features including an in-built password manager and numerous new themes to add flavor to your browsing.

🍎 iOS Articles

• Removing UIKit support in KeyboardKit - Daniel Saidi

• SwiftUI patterns: @Bindings - Federico (Five Stars Blog)

• How to display date and time in SwiftUI - Benoit Pasquier

• SwiftUI Custom View Modifiers - Keith Harrison (Use your Loaf)

• Profiling SwiftUI app using Instruments - Majid (Swift with Majid)

• Applying rounded corners to a UIKit or SwiftUI view - John Sundell (Swift by Sundell)

• Accessing a Swift property wrapper’s enclosing instance - John Sundell (Swift by Sundell)

• Preventing unwanted fetches when using NSFetchedResultsController and fetchBatchSize - Donny Wals

• 🔊 “Framework and SDK development” with special guest Ellen Shapiro - John Sundell (Swift by Sundell)

🤖 Android Articles

• MAD Skills Kotlin and Jetpack: wrap-up - Florina Muntenescu in Android Developers Blog

• 3 Android Cases: JUnit 4 Rules to JUnit 5 Extensions - Vlad Sonkin

• Sealed goodies coming in Kotlin 1.5 - Márton Braun (zsmb)

• Results of the First Kotlin Multiplatform Survey - Alex Anisimov

• How runBlocking May Surprise You - Max Kachinkin

• Peeking behind the forbidden door of Reflection - Prafull Mishra

• 📺 Can you trust time measurements in Profiler? - Paulina Sadowska

• What’s new in Hilt and Dagger 2.31 - Jaewoong Eum

• Epoxy—Build Declarative & Reusable UI Components - Seanghay

⚔️ Flutter & React Native

React Native

• GUI tool to generate React-Table code for your projects - Akamit

• How to remove bottom tab bar border in React Navigation - Aman Mittal

• How To Use Redux Persist in React Native with Asyncstorage - Aman Mittal

• Getting Started React Native Testing Library - Sumit Arora

Flutter

• Basics of Riverpod | Flutter - Suraj Gupta

• Display Dynamic Events At Calendar In Flutter - Shaiq khan

• ImageFiltered Widget In Flutter - Shaiq Khan

• URL launcher in Flutter - Rakhi

• My experience building a Flutter app using @protocol - Souvik Biswas

• How to make multiple global loaders in Flutter - Zvi Karp

📈 Trending Dev blogs

• Alerting Mistakes to Avoid While Hiring Mobile App Developers in 2021 - Sophia Martin

• Some projects to build your resume! - Unnati Bamania

• 7 Unique APIs for your next project - Renaissance Engineer

• Authentication and Authorisation 101 - Charlotte Fereday

• Cold Hard Truths About Software Engineering I Understood After 9+ Years - Nick Bull

• Creating a Killer GitHub Profile README Part 1 - Braydon Coyer

• 5 React Shortcuts That Will Instantly Boost Your Productivity - Reed Barger

🛠 Dev Tools & Open Source

• Some Flutter Libraries that will make your life easier in 2021 - Efikas

• XCMetrics - Track your team’s build metrics, Made for (and by) iOS engineers

🎤 Events & Webinars

January 2021

• Jan 20 - Jan 22 (Call for Paper) - iOS Conf SG - 2021 (S$60 & S$210)

April 2021

• Apr 10 - 11 DevFestX - Tickets yet to open

June / July 2021

• 28 June - 01 July - Mobile World Congress - Barcelona, Spain

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