iOS & Android Development

Stetho is a sophisticated debug bridge for Android applications. When enabled, developers have access to the Chrome Developer Tools feature natively part of the Chrome desktop browser. Developers can also choose to enable the optional dumpapp tool which offers a powerful command-line interface to application internals. Facebook Github

Der Hauptsponsor der freien .Net-Reimplementierung Mono, Xamarin, wird von Microsoft übernommen. Das Unternehmen bietet Dienste zur plattformübergreifenden App-Entwicklung in C# und mit dem Framework .Net. Golem Xamarin

New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others falter. When companies try to optimize everything, it’s sometimes easy to forget that success is often built on experiences — like emotional interactions and complicated conversations and discussions of who we want to be and how our teammates make us feel — that can’t really be optimized. NY Times

iTerm 2 iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with OS 10.5 (Leopard) or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted. Split Panes Hotkey Window Search Autocomplete Mouseless Copy Paste History Instant Replay Configurability Colors ... iTerm 2 iTerm 2 Themes And there is a bunch of Themes available! oh-my-zsh themes Oh My Zsh And of course you wanna use the zsh! oh-my-zsh GitHub

Dan Luu: Advantages of monolithic version control Simplified organization With multiple repos, you typically either have one project per repo, or an umbrella of related projects per repo, but that forces you to define what a “project” is for your particular team or company, and it sometimes forces you to split and merge repos for reasons that are pure overhead. For example, having to split a project because it’s too big or has too much history for your VCS is not optimal. With a monorepo, projects can be organized and grouped together in whatever way you find to be most logically consistent, and not just because your version control system forces you to organize things in a particular way. Using a single repo also reduces overhead from managing dependencies. A side effect of the simplified organization is that it’s easier to navigate projects. The monorepos I’ve used let you essentially navigate as if everything is on a networked file system, re-using the idiom that’s used ...

Now that Apple replaced Objective-C with Swift for iOS, the lack of a less archaic language for Android development has become more apparent. For the desperate and adventurous there are the JVM alternatives like Scala and Groovy, but using them with Android is expensive: importing a language means importing the whole runtime, which is a nightmare for the package size and method count. Fine for small applications, but they are not what you are trying to solve with a better language. Kotlin Introducing Kotlin -- JVM-based language made by JetBrains (folks behind IntelliJ IDEA and, by extension, Android Studio) and named after an island near Saint Petersburg, which is where the development office behind the project is located. Introduced in 2011, it's been around for a few years now and the Android support came in the second milestone release (M2). Expecting the standard reaction: yes, another JVM alternative, but this one is specifically designed to be light by excluding all t...

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