iOS & Android Development

The software engineering compensation market becoming trimodal - split into three distinct groups that "spike" and that have little overlaps.  Most engineers are not aware of this third, Big Tech pillar and the compensation ranges it introduces, assuming compensation can not go beyond what is offered at the second pillar:  Read more about salary tier strategies and competable compensations: The Pragmatic Engineer

"Netflix is considering the following leveling system" - Engineer 1 - Engineer 2 - Senior - Staff - Principal The details of the system are still being worked out, and a proposal has been circulated within engineering. The proposal, understandably, has resulted in lots of questions, especially around whether existing engineers will be getting Staff or Principal titles. The original proposal made it seem that everyone would stay Senior, and with promotions, they could get to the next levels. Read more about the history and background: The Pragmatic Engineer

Nir Eyal explores how applying the Hooked Model drives customer retention and engagement by fostering good habits Trigger. An event that encourages someone to act, which is either an: External trigger: something in the environment — a ping, a ding, or a ring — that alerts a person to do something. Internal trigger: the desire to escape from an uncomfortable emotional state. Action. A behavior that anticipates a reward — opening an app, scrolling a feed, checking a dashboard, or playing a video. The simpler the behavior is to accomplish, the more likely the user is to do it. Reward. The user gets what they came for. Investment. The user puts something back into the product that makes it better the next time they use it. https://www.amazon.de/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Products/dp/0241184835

 iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser The iOS Instagram and Facebook app render all third party links and ads within their app using a custom in-app browser. This causes various risks for the user, with the host app being able to track every single interaction with external websites, from all form inputs like passwords and addresses, to every single tap. KrauseFX

Judo App Judo brings server-driven UI to your iOS and Android apps. Build user interfaces visually in a fraction of time and publish them instantly without submitting to the app store. Build Experiences - With No Code The Judo app for macOS, available through the App Store, is built for design professionals with common keyboard shortcuts and familiar concepts like canvas, layers and inspector panel. Workflow is streamlined with the ability to drag and drop media files directly into your experiences and manage your own Judo files in Finder. Manage Creative Execution A Judo experience is interactive and can include text, images, video and buttons. An experience may be part of a screen, a single screen, or more typically multiple linked screens. Judo supports screen transitions, carousels, horizontal scrolling and modals. Clients can add custom fonts and define global colors and these are updates applied universally. Effortlessly Deploy Judo Cloud syncs your experiences with your iOS and

Das Bundeskartellamt hat gegen das Technologieunternehmen Apple ein Verfahren zur kartellrechtlichen Prüfung seiner Tracking-Regelungen sowie des App Tracking Transparency Framework eingeleitet. Das Bundeskartellamt geht dabei insbesondere dem Anfangsverdacht nach, dass diese Regelungen Apples eigene Angebote bevorzugt behandeln und/oder andere Unternehmen behindern könnten. 14.06.2022 Pressemeldung Bundeskartellamt

For this first alpha release, the Now in Android app includes: UI built using Jetpack Compose Theme components with Material3 Adaptive layouts for different screen sizes Architecture that follows our official guidance A reactive programming model with unidirectional data flow, implemented using Kotlin Flows Room and Proto DataStore for local data storage, offline first Remote/local data synchronization scheduled using WorkManager with exponential backoff Android Developers