amimetic

"Out of the box, Safari displays your existing websites beautifully on the edge-to-edge display of the new iPhone X." ... scroll down to their first screen shot and it becomes clear this is just not true!

In exchange you get incredible validation of your JSON and precise error messages about missing fields etc.

And you don't have to write that bit by hand:

http://eeue56.github.io/json-to-elm/

will generate the decoder for you for straightforward cases and give you a great starting point for more complex cases.

You also get proper ADTs to manage state: not asked/loading/loaded/error something that is tedious and error prone in Javascript.

My understanding is that the ratings have never(?) been global ones; they are their estimate of what you will think.

It is possible they A-B test aspects of the process used to generate these.

I recently made a game (now in both App stores) with React Native

http://complexview.com/apps/rgb-logic/index.html

I code in both Swift and Java (and a little Kotlin) but I think RN was better for this project:

* Cross platform with very little extra effort (it only took a couple of hours to take iOS version, make quite a few improvements to both versions and a few changes for Android and ship it).

* The game relies on a somewhat complex UI with simple updates... React/Javascript makes this kind of thing a lot easier to code than say using some kind of complex custom state/view objects in Java.

* Adding a tutorial was way easier thanks to Javascript's blurring of code and data

* Live reload (and now hot reload!) are amazing. Better than than even Android Studio's new "instant" run.

I built the first version for iOS, but it only took a couple of hours to ship a customised version for Android (and quite a bit of that time was actually on improvements to both versions).

Didn't have to write any Java or Obj-C.

Maybe also cheap in other countries? But US price still $512?

Just tried Sketch 3: in some ways it is now even more iOS centric (now has iOS templates out of the box), but the multiple (export) resolution support is a major improvement for Android (previously it just offered 1x, 2x which was completely useless for Android).

I've used Sketch 2 a lot for Android work; it is fantastic and I highly recommend it, though I wish they would give first class support to Android. However, I imagine the developers have to worry about how Apple might react (maybe less likely to get featured etc).

Bear in mind it is Avast writing this post (not exactly my favourite company at the moment, incorrectly reporting a trojan to a few users in one of my Apps), so the alarmist perspective is motivated by their business.

If the worst they can report on is an obscure and rather obviously dodgy looking App no longer on Google Play then there isn't much for us to worry about.

Their Mac App is great: I've used perhaps a dozen LaTeX editors on many platforms and it is probably my favourite. Nice autocomplete, great preview pane, good navigation between files and a very clean interface.

If you are on Windows there is a slightly obscure one called InLage that is excellent (basically Visual Studio for LaTeX).

With this new keyboard I may have to try their iPad app.

Ah. I agree it would be more informative but also more depressing: a countdown gives you a (inaccurate of course) number of days left to 'make the most of'; showing the number of days done gives you an (accurate) count of days you (perhaps) haven't made the most of.

But to be honest the App was something I quickly put together in a few hours and I didn't really consider alternatives to a countdown.

I hope a progress bar would be too slowly moving to be of any use!

I made a little (free) Android App a couple of years ago that does something similar: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.amimetic.de...

Just discounted. I liked a previous edition.