3 ways to stay up to date as a developer

Natig Babayev
Nerd For Tech
Published in
3 min readJul 4, 2021

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Staying up to date and knowing what is happening in the industry is essential for a mobile developer. In this article, I will discuss how you can stay up to date as a mobile developer.

Official Documentations

You have probably heard about reading official documentation a lot, but I can’t stress its importance on staying up to date. You certainly do not need to go through every documentation and learn them by heart. You can check changelogs for upcoming new features or changes and act if required. If the changes somehow affect your future work in the project you work on, you can dive deeper and learn more. Besides knowing what is new in the frameworks, you will know upcoming policy changes by browsing official documentations so that your app won’t be rejected on Google Play Store or App Store. Imagine that you had a fantastic idea that needs the specific permission from users that won’t be available from the following version of the OS. That would suck a lot… So, make sure you check the documentation of the frameworks at least every three months.

Follow Newsletters

Reading articles is another best way of learning new concepts. However, as a developer, I may not always have time to browse websites like Medium or find good content creators. Therefore, I find subscribing to…

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Natig Babayev
Nerd For Tech

Senior Software Developer based in Helsinki, Finland