Mobile Developers Cafe - Weekly Issue #20

Apple’s App Store made an estimated $64 billion in 2020 - According to CNBC’s analysis, Apple’s App Store made $64 billion in revenue in 2020, which is a 28 percent increase from the estimated $50 billion it made in 2019. This represents a good amount of growth for the App Store since the estimated increase between 2018 and 2019 was only 3.1 percent.

A new app allows teachers to use their iPhone or iPad as an overhead camera on Zoom - It’s designed to help teachers who are teaching from home due to COVID

Twitter permanently bans Trump - The president’s preferred megaphone is gone

WhatsApp clarifies it’s not giving all your data to Facebook after a surge in Signal and Telegram users - The company is trying to contain the fallout over a privacy policy update

Americans now spend more time using apps than watching live TV - App Annie’s annual State of Mobile report reveals that Americans now spend more time using apps than watching live TV.

macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2 removes filter that lets Apple apps bypass third-party firewalls - Back in November, some developers raised concerns due to a change in macOS Big Sur, which allowed Apple apps to bypass firewall filters in any situation. Since this could lead to security and privacy breaches, Apple has removed this list of exceptions from macOS Big Sur 11.2.

Google Maps ‘2020 Timeline update’ recaps your travels trends - One of the more useful features made possible by enabling Location History on Android is the Google Maps Timeline. In addition to a monthly recap, Google Maps is sending out a “2020 Timeline update” that is obviously impacted by the last 12 months but still provides useful local stats.

Google Meet adds ‘Troubleshooting’ menu for real-time network, system performance stats - A handful of factors play into the quality of your video call, and Google Meet now wants to “make it easier for end-users to understand how their local desktop and network environments affect meeting quality” with a new Troubleshooting menu.

All the ways Windows 10X looks and acts like Chrome OS [Gallery] - Windows 10X was originally intended to debut on dual-screen devices, like the Surface Neo, before later coming to laptops. Last May, Microsoft announced a “pivot” to “focus toward single-screen Windows 10X devices” amid the work-from-home surge. A “near-final version” of Windows 10X has now leaked, and it reveals some key similarities to Chrome OS.

Avoiding SwiftUI’s AnyView - John Sundell

Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide - Guilherme Rambo

Validating email addresses using RawRepresentable and NSDataDetector - John Sundell

AnimatableModifier in SwiftUI - Majid

Performing POST and file upload requests using URLSession - John Sundell

Using multiple computed properties to form a SwiftUI view’s body - John Sundell

Effective Auto Layout Programmatically in Swift - Vadim Bulavin

Creating custom query functions using key paths - John Sundell

SwiftUI Layout Explained: Free to watch! - Florian Kugler (objc io)

The different types of self in Swift - Jessie Squires

What does “atomic” mean in programming? - Donny Wals

Using Swift Result and flatMap - Keith Harrison in Use your Loaf

Create a dynamic onboarding UI in Swift - Benoit Pasquier

⭐ How to check if Text is truncated in SwiftUI? - Federico

Combine for Mere Mortals - Ben Scheirman

Mocking with MockingKit - Daniel Saidi

How to select images using PHPickerViewController with SwiftUI - Kristaps Grinbergs

Background Color with SwiftUI - Kristaps Grinbergs

Replicate the Expandable Date Picker Using UICollectionView List - Swift Senpai

The SEFR classifier - Matthijs Hollemans

Choose Wisely: 5 Ways To Show A Message In Android - Vlad Sonkin

Expedia Group Case Study: Bootiful APIs With GraphQL and Kotlin - Anton Arhipov in Jetbrains Blog

Happy Railway - Hadi Lashkari Ghouchani

Evolution of Android Update System - Ivan Kuten

Unit Tests and Concurrency - Stojan Anastasov

Android Data Binding: Under the Hood (Part 2) - Niharika Arora

The greatest Android modularization mistake and how to undo it - Eric N

KeyTimeCycle - Motion Tags #9 - Android Developers

Kotlin: Using Room Kotlin APIs - MAD Skills - Android Developers

Widget Testing With Flutter - Shaiq khan

Performance Monitoring of Flutter App - Shivanchal Pandey

Integration Testing With Flutter - Paras

Flutter : flip animation - David Gonzalez

Using Flutter’s Navigator 2.0 with Voyager Router - Łukasz Wiśniewski

Routing HTTP requests in a Dart server - Suragch

Getting Started With React Native Debugger - Krissanawat Kaewsanmuang

The Best Free React Native UI Kits of 2021 - Florian Marcu

React Spring – Create Facebook messenger chat heads with trails - akamit

How to dynamically add component in reactjs? Code Example & Demo - akamit

Wrapper component in React JS – Code Example & Live Demo - akamit

How to add an app icon in a React native Android app - Aman Mittal

10 things iOS developers should focus on in 2021 - Donny Wals

My Shopify Internship journey: From application to offer - Bosun Egberinde

16 Great Tech Blogs by Women and Why You Should Read Them - Edidiong Asikpo

What you need to know about functional programming - Nicholas Lewanowicz

10 Fantastic Books By Developers For Developers - Simon Holdorf

40 “Free Forever” Tools for Developers - Hrishikesh

Developer Portfolios as Inspiration ✨ - Firangiz Ganbarli

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

16 Simple Tips to Boost Your Productivity x10 - Maxi Contieri

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