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A Rust Beginners Exercise Implementing Data Structures with Smart Pointers

A Rust Beginners Exercise Implementing Data Structures with Smart Pointers

Learn how to build a Deque with a doubly linked list in Rust using Rc, RefCell, Weak, and Box for safe memory management and interior mutability....

22 April 2026medium

Creating an Android Config Plugin for Expo | React Native Guide

Creating an Android Config Plugin for Expo | React Native Guide

Create an Expo config plugin to modify AndroidManifest, Gradle properties, and MainApplication.java for custom Android behavior....

22 April 2026hashnode

Creating an Android Config Plugin for Expo | React Native Guide

Creating an Android Config Plugin for Expo | React Native Guide

Create an Expo config plugin to modify AndroidManifest, Gradle properties, and MainApplication.java, adding activities, intent filters, and CursorWindow size....

22 April 2026devto

How I Validate Performance Before Every iOS Feature Deployment

How I Validate Performance Before Every iOS Feature Deployment

Pre‑deploy iOS performance checklist: baseline profiling, Instruments, XCTest gates, memory, CPU, cache, and frame‑rate metrics to catch regressions....

22 April 2026medium

The Manifest You Never Wrote — A Flutter Developer's Guide to Android Manifest Merging

The Manifest You Never Wrote — A Flutter Developer's Guide to Android Manifest Merging

Learn how Flutter merges AndroidManifest files, how plugins add permissions, and how to read and control the final merged manifest for Play Store compliance....

22 April 2026devto

State Management in Jetpack Compose

State Management in Jetpack Compose

Learn Jetpack Compose state management: remember, rememberSaveable, state hoisting, ViewModel with StateFlow, and UiState for loading, success, and error handling....

22 April 2026medium

[Library] BlossomColorPicker: A beautiful, petal-styled HSV color picker

[Library] BlossomColorPicker: A beautiful, petal-styled HSV color picker

BlossomColorPicker: a Kotlin Android View for HSV color picking with petal layout, minimal allocation, 60fps, Min SDK 26, available on JitPack....

22 April 2026reddit

Why Android used XML (and what I understood after a conversation with my CTO)

Why Android used XML (and what I understood after a conversation with my CTO)

Android used XML for UI to keep structure, predictability, and separation from logic. Jetpack Compose solves XML’s rigidity by driving UI from state....

22 April 2026devto

App Links e Universal Links: Deep Links em Produção (Parte 5)

App Links e Universal Links: Deep Links em Produção (Parte 5)

Learn how to set up Android App Links and iOS Universal Links in Flutter, configure assetlinks.json and apple‑app‑site‑association, and validate domain verification for production deep links....

22 April 2026devto

Meet Inspectly: An All-in-One Network Debugger for iOS Developers

Meet Inspectly: An All-in-One Network Debugger for iOS Developers

Inspectly is a lightweight iOS toolkit that logs, inspects, and mocks URLSession/Alamofire requests in-app, simplifying network debugging....

22 April 2026medium

Your Unit Tests Are Green.
The Feature Is Still Broken on Device.

Your Unit Tests Are Green. The Feature Is Still Broken on Device.

Learn how Flutter integration tests, golden tests, and Pact contract tests catch dialogs, pixel regressions, and API mismatches, and how to integrate them into CI....

22 April 2026medium

I Gave Claude Eyes to Review My Flutter App UI

I Gave Claude Eyes to Review My Flutter App UI

Use marionette_flutter to connect a Flutter app to Claude Code for AI‑powered UI reviews, spotting accessibility, contrast, spacing, and layout issues....

22 April 2026reddit

Automating C Bindings in Kotlin Multiplatform

Automating C Bindings in Kotlin Multiplatform

Automate C bindings in Kotlin Multiplatform with CBindingKMP: generate JNI wrappers, Kotlin externals, and Gradle integration from a single C header source....

22 April 2026devto

Stop Hand-Writing XCUITest Page Objects

Stop Hand-Writing XCUITest Page Objects

Swift 6.2, Xcode 26 macros for XCUI testing that auto‑gen typed page objects, fluent actions, and safe navigation, cutting boilerplate in iOS UI tests....

22 April 2026medium

I Grade AI Code for a Living. Here's What Nobody Talks About.

I Grade AI Code for a Living. Here's What Nobody Talks About.

Review AI‑generated code for hidden concurrency, error handling, and edge‑case bugs. Learn patterns that make seemingly perfect code fail under load....

21 April 2026devto

React Native vs Flutter in 2026

React Native vs Flutter in 2026

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21 April 2026reddit

I Automated an iOS App With Zero Knowledge — Just Using 8 Prompts in Cursor

I Automated an iOS App With Zero Knowledge — Just Using 8 Prompts in Cursor

Learn how to jump from Windows to iOS automation with XCUITest, using Cursor AI to set up, debug, and build a scalable test suite with Swift and Xcode....

21 April 2026medium

Metro MCP, 147 Haptic Presets, and the 104x Faster Way to Draw a Heart

Metro MCP, 147 Haptic Presets, and the 104x Faster Way to Draw a Heart

Explore React Native Pulsar haptics, Nitro Vector SVG math, and Metro MCP debugging tools for faster, richer mobile apps....

21 April 2026medium

UPDATE: my open source calorie tracker hit 3k+ downloads after last week's post here. added a coach chat tab, widgets, 15 languages

UPDATE: my open source calorie tracker hit 3k+ downloads after last week's post here. added a coach chat tab, widgets, 15 languages

Open‑source SwiftUI calorie tracker with AI chat, widgets, Apple Health sync, multi‑language support, and local Gemini/Anthropic APIs—free, no cloud....

21 April 2026reddit

Improve In App Video Guides with Picture-in-Picture in SwiftUI

Improve In App Video Guides with Picture-in-Picture in SwiftUI

Learn how to use AVPlayerViewController and Picture‑in‑Picture to keep tutorial videos playing while users leave the app, improving SwiftUI onboarding flows....

21 April 2026medium