This Week in Mobile Web Development (#75)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly September 23, 2015   #75 Brian Rinaldi recommends Mobile Navigation For Smashing Magazine: A Case Study — A look into some of the considerations (and even code) behind Smashing Magazine’s latest navigation for mobile Web users. Smashing Magazine Holly Schinsky recommends viewport.js: Create Interactive Menus based on Scroll Position — A library for adding viewport scrolling position indicators to help create interactive navigation menus reflecting scroll position. Github - ASVD Brian Rinaldi recommends Time spent: mobile browsing vs apps — The amount of time users spend on their smartphones each day is up by nearly an hour over the past 2 years, but the time spent browsing the web is down. Business Insider This issue is sponsored by Toptal Hire Top Mobile Web Developers — Work with highly-vetted mobile web devs custom-matched to your exact project needs. Learn more. Toptal Holly Schinsky recommends cordova-plugin-safariviewcontroller: PhoneGap Plugin for Displaying Web Content — A new plugin alternative to InAppBrowser for iOS to better display web content in your PhoneGap Apps. Eddy Verbruggen Peter Cooper recommends The Mobile Web: Another Nail in Serif Fonts' Coffin — Due to the extra file sizes and readability concerns, the mobile Web is allegedly causing a decline in the use of serif fonts. Digiday Peter Cooper recommends Facebook Works With Google To Let Mobile Web Users Get Push Notifications via Chrome TechCrunch Holly Schinsky recommends 8 Reasons Why I'm Glad I Switched to the Ionic Framework — Josh talks about 8 specific reasons he’s happy to have made the switch to Ionic for his hybrid app development. Josh Morony Holly Schinsky recommends Creating an Animated Product Slider with Sequence.js — A JavaScript library that provides a responsive CSS framework for creating unique sliders, presentations, banners, and other step-based applications. David Walsh Peter Cooper recommends React Native for Android Released — React Native was always intended to be cross platform, and now as well as iOS, it supports Android too. Facebook’s Ads Manager app is the first fully cross-platform React Native app. Facebook Holly Schinsky recommends Sample Hybrid App with ReactJS — Check out this post with details and links to a new sample hybrid app built with ReactJS and the TouchstoneJS UI Framework. Devgirl's Weblog Holly Schinsky recommends iOS 9 and Ionic Build Errors — A summary of warnings and gotchas to be aware out when developing/upgrading your Ionic apps to iOS 9. Tyler Buchea's Blog Holly Schinsky recommends Material Design in Onsen UI — Onsen UI is implementing Material Design for native-like Android component support in the next major release version 2.0. Onsen.io Holly Schinsky recommends How to Create Apps without Coding — How Sonar Design is targeting designers and content creators with their new HTML5 platform for building apps without coding. Creative Bloq Holly Schinsky recommends PhoneGap-Plugin-Push Version 1.3.0 Has Been Released — A new version of the PhoneGap Push Plugin has been released with Gradle support (to avoid conflict with other plugins) as well as a bunch of other minor fixes and enhancements. Simon Mac Donald Holly Schinsky recommends Hybrid Mobile Apps with Ember.js - Slides from Web Unleashed 2015 — Slides from last week’s Web Unleashed session on Building Hybrid Apps with Ember.js. Includes info about the Ember Cordova CLI and other helpful links and tips. Slideshare - Alex Blom Holly Schinsky recommends iOS 9, Ionic, Cordova, Angular & 10 $digest() iterations reached — Tips and fixes to help with $digest() errors on iOS9 with your hybrid mobile apps using AngularJS. Design Limbo Peter Cooper recommends What I Learned From Building A React Native App Zhen Wang 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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