This Week in Mobile Web Development (#68)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly August 5, 2015   #68 Holly Schinsky recommends 18 Free Mobile APIs Developers Should Consider — A list of 18 free and useful mobile APIs you can use in your hybrid mobile apps. Speckyboy.com Brian Rinaldi recommends BreakpointTester — A bookmarklet that scans a site’s CSS and test by breakpoints rather than by predefined device widths. Macula Internet Peter Cooper recommends The Fastest-Growing Mobile Phone Markets Barely Use Apps — Africa and Asia, the two fastest growing mobile markets, aren’t very big on apps with the overwhelming majority of mobile internet activity in the regions spent directly on the Web. Quartz Holly Schinsky recommends The War for Control of the Mobile Web is About to Heat Up — Google brings Material Design to the web to try to get developers fed up with developing/supporting 3 platforms to focus on mobile web while Apple continues to release new proprietary APIs. Medium.com - John McMahon This issue is sponsored by Appcelerator Write in JavaScript, Run Native on Any Device — Build great, native mobile apps—all from a single JavaScript code base. Get started for free. Appcelerator Holly Schinsky recommends Build PhoneGap Apps Faster and Easier with Alpha Anywhere — Alpha Anywhere, an IDE for building hybrid mobile apps, recently added a PhoneGap shell for faster and easier app testing. Alpha Software Blog Holly Schinsky recommends Cordova Plugin NPM Search — A new search tool to discover the specific npm name of any Cordova plugin you may want to to add to your project. plugins.cordova.io Brian Rinaldi recommends Create a Responsive Website from Scratch with Dreamweaver CC — A step-by-step tutorial for creating the basics of a responsive web page by Joseph Lowery. Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog Brian Rinaldi recommends Tabris.js 1.1 is here — Tabris is a solution for writing mobile apps with native UIs and version 1.1 adds new features including Cordova 5 support. EclipseSource Blog Holly Schinsky recommends Apache Cordova iOS 3.9.0 — Apache Cordova version 3.9.0 has been released with support for code signing, system requirements checking, bug fixes and more. Apache Cordova Holly Schinsky recommends Pointer Events now in Firefox Nightly Builds — Pointer events are now supported in the nightly builds of Firefox. Check out this article for details and how to use the API. Mozilla Hacks Brian Rinaldi recommends Targeting Windows 10 with your Apache Cordova app — A walk through for building a Cordova hybrid app that targets Windows 10 by Polita Paulus. The Visual Studio Blog Holly Schinsky recommends Monaca launches Localkit, an IDE for local hybrid app development using Cordova — Monaca launches Localkit, a standalone program containing all the main features from their cloud platform with no setup required. Appindex Holly Schinsky recommends cordova-imaging: Configurable utility to generate images needed for Cordova projects — A command line utility to generate app icons, splash screens and app store preview images for Cordova apps. Mike MacMillan Brian Rinaldi recommends What's Wrong with the Web? — There have been many discussions about what is ailing the web lately - in particular the mobile web. Brian rounds up much of the prevailing opinions and shares his thoughts. Telerik Developer Network Holly Schinsky recommends Some initial thoughts on building desktop apps with Ionic and Electron — Ray’s initial thoughts on building desktop apps with Ionic and Electron. Raymond Camden's Blog Holly Schinsky recommends Angular Meteor Tutorials — A comprehensive tutorial to writing applications with Angular and Meteor. angular-meteor 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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