This Week in Mobile Web Development (#58)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly May 27, 2015   #58 Brian Rinaldi recommends Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat — PPK says that the desire to take native head-on gave rise to unnecessarily complex toolchains that slow down the web. QuirksBlog Brian Rinaldi recommends 7 Mobile UX Mistakes You're Probably Making Right Now — Lynn Wang has some practical tips to consider when developing or improving the user experience of a mobile app or site. SitePoint Holly Schinsky recommends How to Make High Performance PhoneGap Apps — A summary of useful tips from PhoneGap Day 2015 for building high performance PhoneGap Apps. Josh Morony's Blog This issue is sponsored by Pluralsight Give back to the developer community-Apply to teach today — We're actively recruiting web developers that want to share their knowledge with a global audience. As a Pluralsight author, you'll join a tight knit family of passionate teachers and earn first-class royalties. We inspire, teach and transform lives. Pluralsight Holly Schinsky recommends Native Mobile Apps in JavaScript with Tabris.js — An in-depth tutorial on using the new Tabris.js for building non-webview hybrid apps, including a final summary comparing it to solutions like Ionic and React Native. Devdactic Holly Schinsky recommends The future is mobile and apps, except that it isn't. — Recent statistics show people still choose to use mobile devices while sitting down and near a PC, not just on the go, requiring a deeper look at how you build your overall user experience. Benedict Evans Brian Rinaldi recommends Firing Responsive jQuery Functions based on CSS Media Queries Rather than Window Width — Chris Arasin shows a simple way to use jQuery to trigger JavaScript based upon a specific width in CSS. FourFront Holly Schinsky recommends Build a Mobile App with the WordPress REST API and Ionic — A tutorial on how to use WordPress content in a mobile app using the WP-API and Ionic. Reactor by AppPresser Holly Schinsky recommends Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site: Part 4 — Part 4 in a series on creating a mobile app from an HTML site, including implementing an offline mode with local storage and coding flexible configuration settings. Mozilla Hacks Brian Rinaldi recommends Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people — An overview of the ongoing hamburger icon controversy of 2015 (ok, that’s an overstatement) that concludes that perhaps the controversy itself is making people more aware of the icon. BBC News Peter Cooper recommends Faster Mobile Websites [slidedeck] — Cover a variety of performance related issues related to mobile sites and the techniques used to overcome them. Speaker Deck Holly Schinsky recommends Let’s Get Charged: Updates to the Battery Status API — Francesco Iovine looks at the Battery Status API and how it can be used from JavaScript on supported devices. Mozilla Hacks Brian Rinaldi recommends Important information about Cordova 5 — Changes in how Cordova handles whitelisting and the use of the Content Security Policy can impact your app. Raymond Camden Holly Schinsky recommends Tutorial: Todo App with Onsen UI and Azure — Build a Todo App using the new Onsen UI Templates for Visual Studio 2015 and Azure Cloud services for data hosting. Onsen UI Holly Schinsky recommends Whitelist External Resources For Use In Ionic Framework — Some notes on things to be aware of with the recent change in whitelisting handling in your Apache Cordova/Ionic apps. Nic Raboy Brian Rinaldi recommends Announcing protractor-ionic-locator — Allowing for testing Ionic apps with Protractor, this project adds locators to a protractor instance that finds Ionic specific elements, such as collection-repeat. MobileCaddy Holly Schinsky recommends How to automatically sign your Android apk using Ionic framework and Crosswalk — How to automatically sign your Android apk for publishing to Google Play using Ionic and Crosswalk. http://ift.tt/1cZyBJ9 Curated by Brian Rinaldi and Holly Schinsky for Cooper Press. Cooper Press is located at Office 30, Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Update your email address or stop receiving MWW here

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