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Mobile
This issue reflects on the origins, evolutions, and cornerstones of modern mobile development.
Gio Lodi
Meet the microapps architecture
How an emerging architecture pattern inspired by microservices can invigorate feature development and amplify developer velocity.
Kayla Kasprak
The building blocks of scale
A discussion of the fundamentals of flexible, extensible mobile teams.Gergely Orosz
A primer on automated mobile testing
Insights for teams looking to tailor their test suites and build apps that just work.Ankush Gupta
Write once, run anywhere?
What a migration to Kotlin Multiplatform taught Quizlet about the nuances of cross-platform development.Safia Abdalla
Open-source excursions: Views from the mobile stack
Exploring the emerging possibilities for open-source mobile hardware and software.
Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats
Best practices for building accessible mobile apps
An overview of the mindset, strategies, and tools that will help you create apps that truly work for everyone.Peter Steinberger
The new shiny
On the shift from imperative to declarative UI, and what it might mean for the apps we build today and tomorrow.Adam Sanderson and Dawn Wright
The process: Bringing Textio to the mobile web
How engineers unraveled a glitchy Android experience and shipped an intuitive augmented writing tool for mobile browsers.Andrew Leonard
How to make games and influence the industry
What can the success of China’s mobile gaming industry teach developers around the world?
Poornima Apte
And then there were smartphones
A tale of battleship-gray bricks, stylus-operated PDAs, and successive momentous shifts in the mobile industry.
Lav R. Varshney
Of wireless telegraphy, Model Ts, and mobile devices
To catalyze transformative innovation, consider the history of sociotechnical change, the user as innovator, and the impact of technologies’ relationships to the past.
Chris Stokel-Walker
Apps on demand
Offering bite-sized, no-download access to key app features, streaming apps may be an idea whose time has come.Increment Staff
Mobile development at scale
Engineering leaders at adidas Runtastic, Eventbrite, and Citymapper discuss app performance, how mobile fits into their org structures, and native versus cross-platform development.Pooja Bhaumik
Ask an expert: How can mobile teams best use feature flags?
CreatorStack’s Pooja Bhaumik shares how to reap the benefits—without the codebase bloat.Ipsita Agarwal
Interview: Claire Sibthorpe
The GSM Association’s head of connected women, connected society, and assistive technology discusses the impact mobile devices have had on the lives of marginalized women and what technology companies can do to further mobile equity.
