October 19, 2021

69: Elixir on Mobile with Dominic Letz

46 minutes

We talk with Dominic Letz about running Elixir on an Android phone installed in an APK which hosts a LiveView application accessed through a WebView! All while also pursuing a Web 3.0 architecture of being decentralized! Wow! There’s a lot going on here! Oh, and the tech is OpenSource!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/69

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#162-2021-10-08 – Phoenix 1.6.1 and 1.6.2 were released.

https://twitter.com/mcrumm/status/1446594887034408960 – Michael Crumm explains 1.6.2. It's cool! We all make mistakes!

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/facebook-says-sorry-for-mass-outage-and-reveals-why-it-happened.html – Facebook major outage. Cause? Bad BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) config, bugs in the "don't let that happen" checks, and being physically locked out of their offices because they couldn't be authenticated.

https://dev.to/oliverandrich/adding-bootstrap-to-a-phoenix-1-6-project-hfe – How to setup Bootstrap with esbuild

https://twitter.com/elixirmembrane/status/1445768307643088897 – Membrane Framework getting a big update. Ability to record WebRTC sessions to MP4 and WebM.

https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/043-membrane-with-marcin-lewandowski/ – Previous discussion about Membrane

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1446443166048129028 – MSSQL / TDS Database driver for Elixir looking for new maintainer

https://github.com/elixir-ecto/tds/issues/128 – TDS project issue with discussion

https://nts.strzibny.name/12factor-elixir-phoenix-releases/ – 12-Factor app guide by Josef Strzibny updated for Phoenix 1.6 and esbuild

https://12factor.net/ – 12-Factor is about "how to design your applications"

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_bakery/PhoenixBakery.html – New library for Phoenix, about better compression for Phoenix assets

https://twitter.com/fhunleth/status/1446448994310369281 – Nerves get's bluetooth support enabled on hardware like the RPi3 while working in Nerves Livebook v0.2.25

https://www.elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2021

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/elixir-desktop/android-example-app/

https://github.com/elixir-desktop/desktop-example-app

https://github.com/elixir-desktop

https://diode.io/

https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/HOWTO/INSTALL-ANDROID.md

https://github.com/elixir-sqlite/exqlite

http://www.wings3d.com/

https://diode.io/resources/download/#diode-drive-download

https://github.com/boydm/scenic

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/01/06/what-is-web-3-0/?sh=6f627da58dfb – Decentralized Web 3.0 approach

https://github.com/elixir-desktop

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/DominicLetz – on Twitter

https://github.com/dominicletz/ – on Github

https://elixirforum.com/u/dominicletz/summary – on Elixir Forum

https://diode.io/ – Diode and blog

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