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Google Play: Best Apps 2020

 Celebrating the Developers Behind the Best Apps and Games of 2020 Best App of 2020 Loóna: Bedtime Calm & Relax by Loona Inc. Best Personal Growth Apps Best Hidden Gem Apps Best Everyday Essential Apps Best Apps for Good Best Apps for Fun Best Game of 2020 Best Indie Games Best Casual Games Best Innovative Games Best Competitive Games Android Developers

Enable, test and verify iOS and iPadOS apps on Apple Silicon

 You can now enable your iOS/iPadOS apps for Apple Silicon. This happens in two steps: You enable your app in iTunes Connect "Pricing and Availability" for Apple Silicon Mac Then test your app on your new M1 machine, then... You can verify that this app was compatible, resulting in higher App Store for Mac ranking The window opens in iPad vertical orientation; you can switch the orientation portrait/landscape via green round "+" button - or if you support size classes you can resize fluently and put it to fullscreen. So all gestures work like on the iPad - but you will have to use the touchpad for it... Clicking via mouse pointer. Location allowance is requested via Mac. Push subscription works. Native alerts also work as suspected. Purchases not tested, yet. We had some issues/warnings with CoreLocation framework in some apps - hope you won't! But so far... so NICE! :)

LinkedIn: Social Selling Index

Ihr Social Selling Index (SSI) zeigt an, wie erfolgreich Sie dabei sind, Ihre professionelle Marke zu etablieren, die richtigen Personen zu finden, gewonnene Einblicke zu nutzen und Beziehungen aufzubauen. Er wird täglich aktualisiert. LinkedIn SSI

Tech Radar

Create your Tech Radar to visualize and unite your tech strategy. ThoughtWorks Tech Radar Google Spreadsheet based implementation Zalando Tech Radar JS based implementation

Server-driven UI (SDUI): Meet Zalandos AppCraft and AirBnB Lona

A short WTF: Joe Birch:  SERVER DRIVEN UI, PART 1: THE CONCEPT Zalando seems to follow the SDUI principle as well - defining a common design language and construct the screens on the backend while displaying them natively on the clients. They even go one step further; they implemented a mighty toolset to enable non-technical stakeholders to define their own native app screens Compass: Web tooling to create screens and bind data Beetroot: Backend service that combines the screen layout definition with the data Lapis/Golem: iOS/Android UI render engines Crazy cool! Good job, guys (when you do an open-source release?) To even move faster a Flutter based UI render engine implementation was great! See also AirBnB Lona SDUI approach Building a Visual Language Why Dropbox sunsetted its universal C++ mobile project and AirBnB its React Native implementation

Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps — now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform

  The high likelihood of unreliable network connectivity led us to lean into mobile solutions for robust client side persistence and offline support. The need for fast product delivery led us to experiment with a multiplatform architecture. Now we’re taking this one step further by using Kotlin Multiplatform to write platform agnostic business logic once in Kotlin and compiling to a Kotlin library for Android and a native Universal Framework for iOS via Kotlin/Native. Netflix Tech Blog

pixel-me

There is a great service to convert your portrait in nice bit-graphics. It even detects the face in the photograph to avoid clutter! https://pixel-me.tokyo/en/