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15 articles tagged #Mobile.
P.01Shopify moved its mobile apps from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin. Here's the reasoning, the numbers, and how small teams should read the news.
P.02PKCE stops a stolen OAuth code from being redeemed. It doesn't stop the wrong app from getting your redirect first. Here's the fix most mobile apps skip.
P.03Google made Android UI Compose-first: Views gets critical fixes but no new features, ever. What maintenance mode covers, and how to plan a migration.
P.04The W3C's updated accessibility evaluation methodology now covers mobile and desktop apps, not just web pages. The five-step audit, applied to a native app.
P.05Android 17 (API 37) brings mandatory large-screen resizability, a local network permission, and stricter media rules. What to fix, and by when.
P.06React Native's New Architecture is the default now. Screening for JS and native boundaries, Expo tradeoffs, and knowing when cross-platform is wrong.
P.07Mobile app budgets get underestimated because they only price the build. A full cost breakdown by app type and platform, plus the hidden line items.
P.08Flutter dominates cross-platform mobile now, and the gap between tutorial-complete and production-shipped is wide. The screen that finds the difference.
P.09iOS changed more in three years than the previous seven. What strong candidates actually know, how to screen for it, and what to expect on rates.
P.10Android changed more in three years than the prior decade. How to tell who builds modern Compose apps from who learned it in 2019 and stopped there.
P.11Expo Router brings file-based routing to React Native, the pattern web developers know from Next.js. Here's how it works and where the friction lives.
P.12Three viable paths to cross-platform mobile in 2026. Which one makes sense depends on your team, your deadlines, and how much of the device you actually need.
P.13React Native's Fabric and JSI replaced the async bridge with direct native calls, default since RN 0.76. What changed, what migration costs, and the rough edges left.
P.14PWAs got a second wind once iOS 16.4 enabled push notifications and iOS 17 improved install flow. The gap between PWA and native is now narrow enough to matter.
P.15Mobile-first design in 2026 means designing for device capabilities, context, and user preferences, not just responsive breakpoints and screen size.