The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 335 (February 24 - March 1)

In the new digest, the story of creating your own messenger, animations and HTTP requests, the latest Android 11 and falling cats, one-handed control and the psychology of games. Happy spring!

As I wrote my messenger

One evening, after another frustrating day, filled with attempts to balance the game, I decided that I urgently needed a rest. I’ll switch to another project, do it quickly, return the self-esteem that has rolled down during the development of the game and will take the game by storm with renewed vigor! The main thing is to choose a nice and relaxing project ... Write your own messenger? Ha! How hard can it be?

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iOS

• (+21)  FunCorp content iOS meetup # 2
• (+5)  Modern code for executing HTTP requests in Swift 5 using Combine and using them in SwiftUI. Part 1
•Swift features: static URL
• Interview questions for iOS developers 2020
• SwiftUI: creating a sound visualizer
• Configuring macOS for iOS development
• Creating an endless list using SwiftUI, Combine and URLSession
• Asynchronously loading images by URL in SwiftUI
• Hexagonal architecture for iOS
• Analysis and improvement of build time in iOS
• Computed properties in Swift: safer and cleaner code
• SwiftQRCodeScanner:

Android QR code scanner

• (+14)  Animating RecyclerView easily without switching to ViewPager2
• (+6) OData + RxJava + Retrofit 2 for android application
• (+1)  In most cases, serialization in Android is not needed
• Android Dev Podcast # 109: Android 11. Complete debriefing of changes with Google DevRel
• Android Studio 3.6 released
• Reactive programming with Kotlin for Android
• How AndroidX changes our work with Activities and Fragments
• Styling Android: overlay themes
• Encrypt data on Android with Jetpack Security
• Timber - a logging library for Android
• What's new in CameraX
• Moko Widgets: cross-platform UI for Kotlin MultiPlatform
• DisneyMotions: animations and MVVM

Development

• (+104) Cascadeur: The task of a falling cat
• (+34)  Blending and Unity Terrain: how to get rid of intersections and stop making the eyes hurt
• (+27)  We speed up the frontend. When a lot of requests to the server is good
• (+10)  How to design mobile applications for one hand
• (+6) How we did a mobile bank for Aurora: development features for the domestic mobile OS
• (+5)  Organization of auto tests using an example mobile application for EDMS
• (+3)  Feedback form in React Native using AWS + Telegram
• What I learned from my bitter experience
• Podlodka # 152: Monitoring
• What to do if there is nothing to do in the project: 3 tips for developers
• On Russia - welcome to the game
• How Waymo, through design, increased user confidence in unmanned vehicles
• Case study how it doesn’t happen: to design a new mobile bank in two months
• Is it really impossible to do anything in one sprint?
• Why the structure of the development team can slow you down
• Designing a new Microsoft Office mobile application
• Random numbers and card shuffling algorithms
• 15 ideas for improving programming skills
• Application ideas that you can start making today
• Developer Experience: fundamentally more complicated than regular UX
• Tips for improving the design of empty states
• 10 examples of using dishonest techniques in UX

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+ 17) The  5 most idiotic mistakes in localizing computer games
• (+10)  101XP Managing Director Olga Makushenko: “5 key mistakes in developing a game as a business”
• (+3)  How dating applications make us lonely
• Game psychology: how games change our thinking , emotions and dreams
• Plants vs. testing begins Zombies 3
• Roblox raised $ 150 million
• Game mechanics for non-gaming applications
• App Samurai received $ 2.4 million in Series A
• YouPorn launched TikTok for adults
• Snapask received $ 35 million for mobile education
• Ikaria: dating from Secret authors
• How application localization works: 7 tips from Readdle
• Growth through the creation of new products for the current audience of

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+39)  How to compress fastText model 100 times
• (+8) GSM Location service of SIM800x modules and its work with Yandex.Locator API
• (+2)  Managing smart home sensors using Google Assistant
• iPhone XR became the most popular smartphone in 2019

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