This Week in Mobile Web Development (#65)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly July 15, 2015   #65 Peter Cooper recommends AWS Device Farm: Test Your App On Real Devices in The AWS Cloud — Amazon has launched a service that lets you test an app on real devices over the cloud. Amazon Holly Schinsky recommends A Comprehensive List Of Ionic Starter Apps — A comprehensive list of sample apps to use as a starter project or for reference when building mobile apps with Ionic. http://www.gajotres.net Peter Cooper recommends Going Mobile with React Native — A walk through one developer’s experience of using Facebook’s React Native for making a simple iPhone app. Wiktor Mociun Holly Schinsky recommends Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova — Ryan Salva talks about the latest new features in Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova. Channel 9 This issue is sponsored by Hired.com Want to work on new projects? Make more money? Try a new stack? Relocate? — On Hired, we'll bring the options to you. With over 2,000 pre-screened tech companies in 10 cities in the US & UK, you'll be sure to find what you're looking for. Join Hired today. Hired.com Brian Rinaldi recommends It's a matter of time: the web will also win the mobile development battle — While acknowledging that native for mobile has some advantages, this post argues that the disadvantages outweigh them and that, in the long run, the web will win out over native. Santiago L. Valdarrama Holly Schinsky recommends iOS Application with Polymer 1.0 — A guide to building a hybrid mobile app for iOS using Cordova and the Polymer Starter Kit. Walking Tree Holly Schinsky recommends Ionic Material / Material Design / Ionic Framework / AngularJS / Zach Fitzgerald — A pre-release preview of Ionic Material, a new project in the works from Zach Fitzgerald for adding material design to your Ionic hybrid apps. Ionic Material Brian Rinaldi recommends Material Design Icons, Goodies and Starter Kits — Whether you are developing a mobile site, hybrid app or native app using Material Design, this post has a ton of resources and guidelines for creating the design. Smashing Magazine Holly Schinsky recommends Jed Watson - Going Mobile with React at react-europe 2015 — A talk by Jed Watson on how hybrid apps are here to stay. Includes demo’s of hybrid apps, including the ReactJS conference app, and how you can provide a native experience based on a webview. YouTube - Jed Watson Peter Cooper recommends Appery Wants to Deliver The Holy Grail: HTML5 Apps with Native Performance Network World Brian Rinaldi recommends Can you overuse media queries? — James George discusses how making your media queries complex and overlapping can cause complications. Developer Drive Holly Schinsky recommends Modify The Badge Number Of An Ionic Framework App — How to use the cordova-plugin-badge to update the badge number for your app to indicate it needs attention. Nic Raboy Holly Schinsky recommends Why Apple, Google, And Samsung Want To Lock You In With Wearables — Thoughts on wearables, their platform dependencies and how it could change in the future. Read Write Brian Rinaldi recommends 5 Tips for a Successful App Store Optimization Strategy — Not specific to hybrid apps, but some useful tips and tricks for improving the discoverability of your app in the popular app stores. Telerik Developer Network Holly Schinsky recommends New Demo Project: SauceDB — A new sample project showing how to use Ionic and IBM Bluemix to build a hybrid app. Raymond Camden Holly Schinsky recommends LokiJS: in-memory NoSQL datastore for Cordova apps — How to use the LokiJS in-memory NoSQL datastore in your Cordova mobile apps. Onsen UI Brian Rinaldi recommends With Microsoft Layoffs, Windows Phone’s Prospects Dim Further — One of a number of posts this week arguing that the recent layoffs were an indication that Microsoft may be giving up on Windows Phone. Re/code 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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