Mobile App Development: Past, Present and Future

What stands as one of the most impactful technologies in our always-connected world? The smartphone.Learning how to develop effectively for this platform and the other devices around it, will provide you with the opportunity to improve lives.

Join me as we dive deep into the lessons from its history, gain insights into the current landscape of mobile app development, and analyze the potential future it holds.
We will explore the tools, frameworks, methodologies, and real-life anecdotes from my experiences that can support your career path to success should you choose to embark on this journey.

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1. Mobile app development: past, present and future
2. Giovanni Laquidara @giolaq Sr. Developer Advocate @ Amazon
3. My story • Software Engineering @ University • C++/Java - Linux • Web was boring • Started career as software engineer in Defense and Space
4. Symbian OS Symbian C++ Java ME ( Micro Edition )
6. My story • Mobile was starting Android Java XML
7. • Community • Study and apply knowledge to solve direct simple problems
11. How
13. Platform Independence Object-Oriented Rich Standard Library Garbage Collection Security JAVA
14. Apple ecosystem Dynamic Runtime Message Passing Paradigm Integration with C Memory Management with ARC Objective c
15. Interoperability with Java Concise and Expressive Syntax Null Safety Extension Functions Coroutines Kotlin
16. Safety and Performance Modern Syntax Interoperability with Objective-C Rich Standard Library Swift
19. Declarative UI https://ui.dev/c/react/imperative-vs-declarative
20. Jetpack Compose https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/mental-model
21. Swift UI https://developer.apple.com/xcode/swiftui/
22. Multiplatform
23. https://flutter.dev
24. https://reactnative.dev/
25. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform.html
27. Not only smartphone
29. Tips?
30. Start small Find a small problem to solve
31. Your first demo will be bad It’s fine!
32. Tutorial trap
33. Open source libraries
34. AI is a massive helper
35. Supporter vs developers Framework are tools, choose the one right for you, iterate
36. Test Test Test
37. Embarking on Your App Journey • Inspirational image of a journey or path forward. Soft Skills
38. Meetup/conferences If there is none, lead one!
40. Giovanni Laquidara @giolaq