🔥 Top News of the Week

Epic Vs Apple Update

Apple has terminated Epic's developer account which means, the users who have deleted Fortnite or any game from the developer cannot download again from the Purchases tab. A district court also ruled, Which prevented Apple from pulling the Developer account which certifies the Epic's Unreal Engine package.

The court also dismissed the appeal by Epic to continue selling Fortnite in the AppStore until the trial is over. On the same day Apple terminated the AppStore account, they promoted the PUBG in the app stores.

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App Store @AppStore

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August 28th 2020

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🗒️ This week's Good Articles

• Introducing Swift Cluster Membership : - Swift.org - A library aims to help Swift grow in a new space of server applications: clustered multi-node distributed systems. Checkout the Github Repo.

• Apple features Fortnite competitor PUBG in App Store on same day it will terminate Epic’s developer account - 9to5Mac

🍎 iOS Dev Blogs

• Building SwiftUI debugging Utilities - Swift By Sundell

• Logging in Swift - Steipete's Blog

• Swift iOS BackgroundTasks framework — Background App Refresh in 4 Steps - ItNext by Linket

• SwiftUI Betas - What changed before 1.0 - MacKuba

• Managing Scenes in SwiftUI - Swift with Majid

• Managing app in SwiftUI - Swift with Majid

• Using Metal to Apply Image Filters - Nishant Desai

• zsh could not find CocoaPods - Jesse Squires

• Swift Network Layer Series - Malcolm Kumwenda in Swift2Go

• 🔈 Lists and Loops - with Nick Lockwood - Swift By Sundell

🤖 Android Dev Blogs

• Sticky UI in Android Bottom Sheets - Kane

• 11 Weeks of Android: UI and Compose - Android Developers Blog

• Integrating Remote Multi-Device Testing Directly In Your IDE - Kobiton in Pro Android Dev

• Avoiding memory leaks when using Data Binding and View Binding - Anders Ullnæss in Pro Android Dev

• Introducing Constraint Layout 2.0 - Sean McQuillan in Android Developers

• Material Theming with MDC: Shape - Nick Rout in Android Developers

• MileIQ improves the drive quality using Bluetooth - Swathy Mothilal in [email protected]

🆕 New apps of the week

• Codemap - The code visualizer you wished for. Codemap visualizes function calls in the most intuitive way. It's built to supercharge engineers.

• Tripapp (iOS / Android) - Take a trip. Expand your mind. Blending modern neuroscience with the wisdom of psychology, Trip takes you on a self-guided journey to help you make the most of your consciousness-expanding experiences.

• Limus - Look at your screenshot at different angles

• Emailio (Early Access) - Email built for wellness

• Cashly (iOS) - Budget Planner Tracker

• Doo App (iOS) - Simplify your to-do list

• Chorus (iOS/Android) - Making Dating Human Again

• Programming Hero (iOS / Android) - Programming just got fun

🖼️ Design Inspirations of the week (Mobile)

• Vooom - App Overview

  

• Relay - Appointments

  

• Local Food Experiences App

  

• Meeting Notes App - Mobile

  

• Co-Working Place Finder App

  

✏️ New Design Tools

• Heroicons - Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons,by the makers of Tailwind CSS.

• Softr - From zero to a website in 5 minutes, using building blocks.

• Avocode Design Copywriting - Start crafting and editing copy online directly in Adobe XD, Sketch & Figma files, and improve UX with the right words.

• Noteqor - A note-taking app that cares about designers💙👩‍🎨

🎤 Events / Conferences (Next 3 months)

August

• Aug 29 - Mobile Conf 2020

• Aug 30 - Sep 1: Try Swift 2020

September

• Sep 3 - 4 (Virtual) : RNEU2020 - Virtual Edition - Free Event

• Sep 10 (Virtual) - ProductCon Online: The Product Management Conference - Free for limited time, $299 there after.

• Sep 9 - 11 (Virtual) - Festival of UX & Design (£29, £39, £45)

• Sep 23 - 24 - (Virtual) Design Matters 20, Copenhagen

• Sep 30 (Virtual) - App Growth Submit Brasil 2020

• [Cancelled] iOSDevUK

• [Postponed to 2021] - App Dev Con Netherlands

October

• Oct 6 - 9 (Virtual) - UXDX (€225 to €600)

• Oct 8 - 9 (Virtual) - droidCON EMEA

• Oct 8 - 9 (Virtual, Call for Paper) - Pragma Conference 2020

• Oct 8 - 9 (Virtual) - Google Assistant Developer Day - Free

• Oct 21 (Virtual) - App Growth Summit SF 2020

• [Cancelled] - Swift Leeds

November

• Nov 3 - 4 - MobileOne

• Nov 9 - 17 - HXLive (£99, with discounts on bulk booking)

• Nov 10 - 11 - Smashing Conference (Early Bird $175, then $225)

• Nov 11 - 14 - Mobius (11500 ₽ to 46000 ₽)

• Nov 18 - App Growth Summit Singapore 2020

🐦 Tweet of the week

Jon Prosser @jon_prosser

Epic Games: We don’t like our 70% cut! Apple: How about a nothing% cut?

August 28th 2020

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