Weekly Digest
Aug 30 - Sep 5, 2021
5 articles that week
Checkmate on Compose Part 2
Zsolt Kocsi discovered that Jetpack Compose's lack of shared element transitions wasn't a limitation. It was an opportunity to build something better.
Kotlin-Style Copy Function For Swift Structs
Scott Birksted from Shopify tackles a frustrating gap between Kotlin and Swift: why can't Swift structs copy themselves as elegantly as Kotlin data classes?
Preparing Your App for iOS 15 and Android 12
New OS releases can break your app overnight. The React Native team shares critical changes in iOS 15 and Android 12 that could impact your users.
Implementing caching for pipeline resolvers in AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs
Eric Robertson from AWS AppSync reveals how pipeline resolver caching slashed database requests by 99% for some customers. If your GraphQL API is hitting backend services too hard, this changes everything.
Checkmate on Compose Part 1
Zsolt Kocsi from Bumble built a chess app in Jetpack Compose to solve a problem that's frustrated beginners for years: engines tell you a move is bad, but never explain why.