This Week in Mobile Web Development (#63)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly July 1, 2015   #63 Peter Cooper recommends Be Mobile Friendly with The New W3C Mobile Checker — Announcing the alpha release of the W3C’s new ‘Mobile Checker’ which emulates a mobile browser when checking a Web page and creates a report of possible issues. W3C Holly Schinsky recommends iOS 9 and Safari View Controller: The Future of Web Views — In-depth discussion about Apple, WebViews and what to expect in the future with iOS9 and the new Safari View Controller. MacStories Brian Rinaldi recommends 8 High Performance Apps You Never Knew Were Hybrid — A list of well known apps that are actually built as hybrid apps using a webview. VenturePact This issue is sponsored by Thinkful Looking to build your dream app? We'll take you from idea to App Store — The best way to learn Swift is with an experienced engineer. With 1-on-1 help from your mentor, you will complete eight projects & publish an app to the app store. Sign up & start learning today! Thinkful Brian Rinaldi recommends The DNA of Responsive Web Design — An overview of the basic concepts and techniques involved in responsive web design with approaches for media queries in popular frameworks by Ed Charbeneau. Telerik Developer Network Holly Schinsky recommends Using the Web Audio API for precision audio in Ionic — An introduction to the Web Audio API and how to use it for precision audio in your hybrid apps. Devan Sabaratnam Brian Rinaldi recommends Building A More Interoperable Web with Microsoft Edge — A look at the changes affecting interoperability of web sites against Microsoft’s new browser. Microsoft Edge Team Brian Rinaldi recommends Viewport sized typography with minimum and maximum sizes — A Sass mixin that expresses a minimum and maximum for the font while still using viewport based units. Eduardo Bouças Holly Schinsky recommends Embedding the WebView - iOS — A new in-depth tutorial is available on the PhoneGap docs site to help developers embed Cordova Webviews with native iOS components and establish communication between them. PhoneGap Docs Brian Rinaldi recommends o-grid: Responsive grid system — A new 12 column responsive grid system for laying out documents, templates and modules. Financial Times Peter Cooper recommends Opera for Android Gets Installable Web Apps and 'Add to Home Screen' Dev.Opera Holly Schinsky recommends Without More Data, Your Mobile Strategy Is Toast — A focus on user data and recognizing what users value most could be key to the success of your app. Read Write Brian Rinaldi recommends Drop Downs Should be the UI of Last Resort — A series of tweets and videos showing simpler and more appropriate controls that can be used instead of drop downs on mobile forms. Luke Wroblewski Holly Schinsky recommends Working with Ionic, Box, and IBM MobileFirst — A sample application using Ionic, Box (cloud storage provider) and IBM MobileFirst. Raymond Camden's Blog Holly Schinsky recommends famous-angular-Pokemon: Sample project for using Famo.us + Angular to create a mobile application — A sample project showing how to use Famo.us and Angular on top of Cordova to create a hybrid mobile app. Dave Voyles Holly Schinsky recommends Marvell Brings JavaScript To The Smallest Devices Ever — KinomaJS software enabling Marvell’s ‘Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle’ products recently implemented ES6 and has expanded its solutions for embedded and IoT product prototyping. InsertHTML Brian Rinaldi recommends Presentation: Mobile is eating the world — A presentation recording discussing how mobile is changing the technology industry, the internet and the broader economy. Not development focused but focused on the overall mobile market. Benedict Evans Job listing Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO, & JPMorgan — Work with top clients, set your own rates, and work from anywhere as an elite Toptal mobile developer. Join the most exclusive network of top software engineers in the world. Toptal 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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