#199: Git for Mobile Development

Mobile Dev Weekly March 21, 2018   #199 Holly Schinsky recommends How Fast Is Flutter? I Built A Stopwatch App to Find Out — Flutter is a mobile UI framework from Google that’s currently getting a lot of attention. Here, a developer reviews its performance after building a stopwatch app to analyze CPU and memory usage. Andrea Bizzotto Brian Rinaldi recommends How Fast Is AMP Really? — A look at how AMP performs in several contexts - in Google search, when used as a standalone framework, when served via AMP cache and compared to the canonical article. Tim Kadlec Sponsored Linux Cloud Hosting Starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo — Get a Linode server up and running in seconds. Simply choose your plan, distro and location and you’re ready to deploy your server. Use promo code mobileweb2018 at checkout and get a $20 credit on a new account. Linode Cloud Hosting Chris Brandrick recommends How BBC Interactive Content Works Across AMP, Apps, and the Web — Publishing content to so many mediums without lots of extra development overhead can be difficult. Here, Chris Ashton explains how one area of the BBC have approached the problem. Smashing Magazine Peter Cooper recommends Git for Mobile Development — Edward Thomson talks with James Montemagno (a Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft) about getting started using Git. All Things Git Brian Rinaldi recommends “Write Once, Run Everywhere” is an Anti-Pattern — Multi-platform development is a tricky business, but it can be great if done right. Jeff Whelpley Mobile Web Brian Rinaldi recommends AMP Is Not The Issue, It's Google — Justin argues that the problems with AMP go beyond its spec. Justin Avery Holly Schinsky recommends How Google’s AMP Has Driven a Renewed Focus on Web Performance Mitch Lenton Chris Brandrick recommends Sensor APIs are now W3C Candidate Recommendations — Includes the Generic Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Magnetometer, Orientation, and Ambient Light APIs. Though consider Firefox is disabling the Ambient Light API by default so there remains uncertainty over the privacy implications and future of some of these APIs. W3C Chris Brandrick recommends AMP Conf 2018: JavaScript in AMP and New URL Structures — Developer Ben Morss and AMP engineering lead Malte Ubl talk about plans to bring JavaScript to AMP. The AMP Channel Holly Schinsky recommends Are PWAs The Future of Mobile Commerce? Mateusz Blum Hybrid Apps Brian Rinaldi recommends Build a Mobile App With Ionic and WordPress — Creating a starter app that integrates WordPress with the Ionic Framework. Scott Bolinger Brian Rinaldi recommends A Quick Look At Using PhoneGap Build and Ionic Together Chris Griffith Holly Schinsky recommends Creating a Progressive Web App with Ionic and Firebase Hosting — Part 3 in a series on creating a real-time chat app using Socket.io and Ionic, with the final part showing how to convert it to a Progressive Web App. Mastering Ionic Native Development Za'e Johnson recommends Build a Serverless Mobile App for Movie Listings with Flutter and AWS Lambda — Developing a mobile app with Google’s open-source UI framework. Mohamed Labouardy Brian Rinaldi recommends Tips and Tricks for Creating a Native Mobile App with NativeScript Georgi Tenev Chris Brandrick recommends IBM Watson Services for Core ML — iOS apps can now make use of IBM’s Watson AI for on-device learning. Apple Holly Schinsky recommends A Complete Guide to Recording Location Data in React Native — A complete guide to gathering a users’ location data and displaying it on a map with React Native. Aryan Goharzad Chris Brandrick recommends Getting Started with NativeScript-Vue 1.0 — How you can start building your first app using NativeScript-Vue, and answers to some common questions you’ll have along the way. TJ VanToll

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