This Week in Mobile Web Development (#72)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly September 2, 2015   #72 Brian Rinaldi recommends Mobile-Friendly Web Pages Using App Banners — Google will start penalizing sites that use app install interstitials that hide a significant amount of content on the transition from the search result page. Official Google Webmaster Central Blog Holly Schinsky recommends Improving Android Performance with Crosswalk — How to improve the performance of your Android 4.x hybrid apps with Crosswalk. Intel Blog Peter Cooper recommends 23 Stats You Should Know About Mobile Web Performance — Includes things like reliance on phones, how a 1 second delay hurts mobile metrics, and how many users max out their data cap. SOASTA This issue is sponsored by EclipseSource Native UIs on iOS and Android, from a single JavaScript codebase — Write apps with native UIs entirely in JavaScript, extend them with Cordova plugins and your own custom widgets. Get started for free today. EclipseSource Holly Schinsky recommends Ultimate AngularJS and Ionic Performance Cheat Sheet — A cheat sheet of tips for maximizing the performance and user experience of your AngularJS/Ionic hybrid apps. Julien Renaux Blog Brian Rinaldi recommends What mobile ad blocking looks like in the real world — Owen Williams tests an early stage ad blocker for iOS Safari to see how it impacts page load times and discusses why he thinks Apple has incentive to allow full content blockers rather than simply tracker blockers. The Next Web Brian Rinaldi recommends How to Write Compelling Push Notifications — A guide to using push notifications effectively (and avoid being annoying). Logan Merrick Peter Cooper recommends A Look At ​Mobile Network Performance in the US — A well put together and very extensive report based on 6.1 million tests performed. Verizon seems to win across the board. Dave Andersen Holly Schinsky recommends Using Google AdMob in Your Android Ionic Application — A tutorial on how to use the Google AdMob service with your mobile apps on Android. Gajotres.net Brian Rinaldi recommends Responsive Web Design: Where Do We Go From Here? — Aaron Gustafson shares his thoughts (from the Responsive Day Out 3 closing keynote) about making sites more accessible by not making any assumptions on browser compatibility and focusing on new models of interaction. SitePoint Holly Schinsky recommends Apache Cordova Windows 4.1.0 — Apache Cordova for Windows 4.1.0 was released to align with the RTM release of Windows 10 and support hosted apps, .NET Native plugin compilation, user-configurable packaging parameters and more! Apache Cordova Holly Schinsky recommends Free cross-platform UI kit for Photoshop and Sketch — NOW UI Kit is a free UI kit with templates, icons and UI elements for Photoshop and Sketch that can be used in your own hybrid apps. InVision Holly Schinsky recommends react-page-transitions: Page transitions for ReactJS based on VelocityJS — High performance, mobile friendly page transitions for ReactJS based on the VelocityJS library. Kamil Thomas Brian Rinaldi recommends Platypi Takes Cross-Platform Framework Open Source — Platypi has open sourced their stack for building cross-platform mobile apps including PlatypusTS (a Typescript-based mobile first framework), PlatypusUI and PlatypusCLI. Platypi Holly Schinsky recommends Firebase-seed starter project — A free starter application is available to help build hybrid apps with Ionic and Firebase and includes email password authentication and handling a synchronized array of messages. Ionic Market Holly Schinsky recommends PhoneGap-Plugin-Push Version 1.2.0 Released — This new version includes a number of enhancements for Android specifically, including sending pictures in your messages, handling multiple entries in an inbox style and action buttons. Simon MacDonald's Blog Peter Cooper recommends OSCON EU 2015: Amsterdam, October 26-28 — O'Reilly's OSCON open source conference is coming to Europe this October, featuring speakers like Douglas Crockford of PayPal and Leslie Hawthorn of Elastic. There's a whole data track, and I'll be there too! 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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