MobilePro #94: ChatGPT AI Admin Template, Firebase, Appwrite's database relationships, and Ionic Capacitor Google Maps Plugin.
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Welcome to the mobile app development world with _mobilepro 94! In this edition we cover mobile development community discussions on ChatGPT AI Admin Template, Firebase, Appwrite's database relationships, and Ionic Capacitor Google Maps Plugin.
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Mobile Developer Community Insights
Top 5+ Free GitHub ChatGPT AI Templates & UI Starter Kits for 2023 - With the advancements in AI technology, chatbots have become more intelligent and efficient. ChatGPT is one such AI-powered chatbot that has gained immense popularity in recent times! In this article discussed the top 5+ free GitHub ChatGPT AI templates and UI starter kits for 2023. Explore now.
Create and Present Any View Controller in 1 LOC using Metaprogramming - This tutorial will help you make view controller instantiation more type-safe by eliminating string IDs and use metaprogramming to generate functions that let you create, push, and present any view controller in 1 LOC, so you can save ~15 LOC whenever you want. Read the tutorial now.
Firebase: Powering Modern Web and Mobile Apps - Developers demand a robust and reliable platform to support their applications. Firebase, a comprehensive mobile and web development platform developed by Google, has emerged as a game changer in this field. In this article, you'll explore Firebase's features, benefits, and why it's a solution for developers around the world. Learn more.
How Appwrite's database relationships can supercharge your app dev - With the Appwrite database relationship, we can enhance the functionality and efficiency of our mobile app development as it allows us to quickly establish connections between different pieces of data in our database. In this article, you will learn how the Appwrite database can supercharge our mobile app development, the benefits, and best practices for using Appwrite's database relationship. Read more.
How to use the Ionic Capacitor Google Maps Plugin with Vue JS - In this blog post, you'll explore how to build a Vue.js mobile application that integrates with Google Maps using the Ionic Capacitor Google Map Plugin. We'll walk through the code step by step, discussing the code in the script section and the template section of the components used to build this web and mobile application. Learn all about the plugin!
An Amazing Open-source ChatGPT AI Admin Template - This article contains a fully ready-to-use trendy ChatGPT AI admin dashboard template for React & NextJS! Use it for free! Download on Github: https://github.com/horizon-ui/chatgpt-ai-template
Mobile Development Motivation
"Mobile development: where imagination meets limitless innovation."
- Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
Food for Thought...
Imagination and innovation converge in mobile development, creating limitless possibilities. Mark Zuckerberg captures the essence of this dynamic field in a short, powerful quote. It is through mobile development that imagination takes flight, driving groundbreaking innovations that shape the future of technology.
Mobile Tools
Flutter is the number one framework for mobile development. Your projects can go much faster by using tested templates. Here are some Flutter chart templates for you:
Circular Chart - Animated radial and pie charts by Victor Choueiri.
Sparkline - Sparkline by Victor Choueiri.
Charts - By Google Charts Team.
Candlesticks - OHLC and Trade Volume Charts by Trent Piercy.
FCharts - Beautiful, responsive, animated charts by Keenan Thompson.
FL Chart - Draw fantastic charts in Flutter by Iman Khoshabi.
Bezier Chart - Beautiful bezier line chart widget for flutter that is highly interactive and configurable by Diego Velasquez.
Echarts - Large collection of advanced reactives charts by LIN Chen.
Graphic - Data visualization library based on the Grammar of Graphics by LIN Chen.
ChatGPT with React Native tutorial
This course is designed with the latest mobile technology and in-demand job tools including React Native, JavaScript, Expo-GO, and the best conventions in 2023; it also teaches the very latest mobile development techniques and version of React with hooks. This course demonstrates how to leverage the power of ChatGPT as a tool in addition to stack overflow and documentations to build scripts and simplifies tackling difficult code tasks and takes your coding skills to the next level.
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Extrapolate and Code Along for Stories Feature Implementation Given ChatGPT
This video is a code-along tutorial on how to extrapolate and implement the stories feature in your React Native application using ChatGPT. You will learn how to leverage ChatGPT to generate code for the different components and logic needed to create an Instagram-like stories feature, and how to customize the generated code to fit your specific design and functional requirements. By the end of this video, you will have a working implementation of the stories feature and a better understanding of how to use ChatGPT to accelerate your React Native development workflow.
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What's Happening in Mobile App Dev?
Android
CameraX 1.3 is now in Beta - CameraX 1.3 opens up even more advanced capabilities. With the dual concurrent camera feature, apps can operate two cameras at the same time. Additionally, 1.3 makes it simple to delight users with new HDR video capabilities.
Android Studio Giraffe RC1 now available - Android Studio - Giraffe | 2022.3.1 RC 1 is now available in the Beta channel. If you already have an Android Studio build on the Beta channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.
Apple
visionOS SDK now available - You can now start creating cutting-edge spatial computing apps for the infinite canvas of Apple Vision Pro. Download Xcode 15 beta 2, which includes the visionOS SDK and Reality Composer Pro (a new tool that makes it easy to preview and prepare 3D content for visionOS).
Ionic
Announcing Ionic v7.1 - We’re so excited to announce the release of Ionic 7.1. It is the first feature release of the Ionic 7 development cycle, and it’s packed with tons of new features for datetime, input, select, and more.
Microsoft
Announcing FoldAwareColumn in Accompanist Adaptive - This week, the company announced the release of FoldAwareColumn! This new component is part of Accompanist, Google’s “sandbox” for experimental Jetpack Compose APIs. The Accompanist Adaptive library already contains the TwoPane component, which we tested out late last year, so FoldAwareColumn will be the second component to join the library.
See you next week!