This Week in Mobile Web Development (#67)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly July 29, 2015   #67 Peter Cooper recommends Mobile Page Bloat: The Average Page Served to Mobile Is 3X Bigger Than 4 Years Ago — According to the Mobile HTTP Archive, the average page served to a mobile device has grown by 203% since 2011. This article looks at six potential problem areas for the effects on mobile performance. Tammy Everts Brian Rinaldi recommends Mobile Safari's Performance is Not the Problem — In response to an article about how the “Mobile Web Sucks,” TJ argues that the article’s author, Nilay Patel, misunderstands the issues facing mobile browsers. TJ VanToll Holly Schinsky recommends The Metrics that Matter at PhoneGap — How the PhoneGap team uses metrics to make informed decisions for new product features. PhoneGap 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 Interact with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Devices from the Web — While not finalized, Chrome’s experimental implementation of the Web Bluetooth API lets you access nearby Bluetooth devices from Web pages. François Beaufort Holly Schinsky recommends A Recorded Live Q&A - Cross-Platform Mobile Development — An informative Q&A with the Visual Studio team on cross platform mobile development. MSDN Channel 9 Holly Schinsky recommends The Web is Too Low-Level — Max Lynch talks about how it can benefit developers to use a framework to build performant apps rather than write their own home-grown solutions. Medium Brian Rinaldi recommends Using rotationAngle and touchRadius — The rotationAngle attribute is now unprefixed in Chrome. It allows you to determine the size, shape and orientation of the user’s finger on a screen Paul Kinlan Brian Rinaldi recommends Google Web Light – Speeding Up the Mobile Web — Only launched for Indonesia so far, this project aims to speed up mobile browsing for 2G connections by removing a lot of elements from the page and its resources. Holger Bartel Brian Rinaldi recommends Hardware APIs coming to browsers — The Web Bluetooth API and the Web NFC API will be particularly important on devices, where these features are common. Peter Gasston Brian Rinaldi recommends The Pro's Guide to Responsive Web Design — Justin Avery discusses the most “in-demand” topics for responsive web developers including responsive images, performance, conditional loading and others. Creative Bloq Brian Rinaldi recommends Recording and saving audio in Cordova applications — In which Ray learns that recording and saving audio in a Cordova app is more complicated than you’d think. Raymond Camden Holly Schinsky recommends Using Couchbase in Your Ionic Framework Application Part 2 — Part 2 of a tutorial on how to use Couchbase in your hybrid mobile apps. Couchbase Blog Holly Schinsky recommends Framework7 Material — Try out the Material Design version of Framework7 with their kitchen sink. Framework7 Brian Rinaldi recommends Choosing a Responsive Framework for Your Next .NET App — Ed Charbeneau looks at how to decide which responsive framework is right for your next .NET app - Bootstrap, Foundation or RadPageLayout. Telerik Developer Network Brian Rinaldi recommends Trilibis - Make Your Websites Device-Aware — A analysis of the use of responsive design on popular news sites and its impact on the performance of these sites (PDF). Trilibis Brian Rinaldi recommends ionic-material-design-lite: Material Design (Lite) style override for Ionic Framework — A module to update the Ionic Frameworks’s common components and directives to use Google’s Material Design (Lite) for the Android platform automatically. Jason Brown 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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