This Week in Mobile Web Development (#76)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly September 30, 2015   #76 Holly Schinsky recommends How to make web forms work better on mobile — Taking time to consider the device you’re targeting can make a huge difference in the usability of your web forms over simply making them responsive. Creative Bloq Brian Rinaldi recommends Mobile Web Is Top Of Funnel, Mobile App Is Bottom Of Funnel — Data shows that mobile web unique visitor growth is faster than mobile app visitor growth and Fred Wilson says that this is because mobile web is “top of funnel” for user acquisition. AVC Holly Schinsky recommends Visual Studio Emulators: Debug WebGL and HTML5 Mobile Experiences — Microsoft announces new emulators for debugging WebGL and HTML5 mobile apps. SitePoint - David Rousset This issue is sponsored by Tabris.JS Native mobile UIs in JavaScript with Tabris.js - iOS 9 ready — Tabris.js is a great way to develop apps with native UIs for Android and iOS in JavaScript. Jump in and give it a try! Tabris.JS Brian Rinaldi recommends Patterns — Responsive Web Design — A series of patterns for building responsive website designs. Responsive Design.is Holly Schinsky recommends Getting Started Building Apps with Ionic and Parse — A set of lessons to help you get started building mobile apps with Angular/Ionic and Parse.com. Aaron K Saunders Holly Schinsky recommends Hello Backend: Your Second Ionic Framework App — Part 2 in a series on building a hybrid app with Ionic. In this post, learn how to add the backend to your Ionic hybrid app with a factory talking to a Random User Generator API. McGivery.com Holly Schinsky recommends How To Use LokiJS For Local Storage In Your Ionic App — A tutorial on using the LokiJS in-memory database solution for local storage in your hybrid apps. Gone Hybrid Holly Schinsky recommends PhoneGap Day 2016 — The PhoneGap Day 2016 website has been launched with links for early bird tickets, call for speakers and more details around the scheduling and venue. PhoneGap Day 2016 Holly Schinsky recommends Android Builds Now Using Gradle on PhoneGap Build By Default — PhoneGap Build is now using Gradle for all Android builds by default. Read on for details. PhoneGap Build Blog Peter Cooper recommends What I Learned While Publishing An HTML5 Mobile App Thomas Hunter II Brian Rinaldi recommends PSA: Safari on iOS9 has a media query bug — The viewport size is set incorrectly when the viewport meta tag contains “initial-scale=1” or “width=device-width”, and the page contains an element that is wider than the desired viewport’s boundary. Reddit Brian Rinaldi recommends A note on weird font size changes in mobile Chrome — An unusual test case that causes text to automatically change size despite the CSS. QuirksMode Brian Rinaldi recommends A Glimpse of Latest Mobile App Development Trends — 15 development trends in the mobile app market according to Katie Stanfield. InfoQ Holly Schinsky recommends Tutorial: Create an Instagram Gallery App with Onsen UI + React — How to use Onsen UI with React to develop a simple Instagram app. Onsen.io Holly Schinsky recommends A Beginner’s Guide to Performant Design Decisions — Tips to implement good design practices to achieve the best 'perceived performance' in your design. Sparkbox Brian Rinaldi recommends Integrating the Calendar into your Ionic App — An example of integrating an app with the device’s calendar. Raymond Camden Brian Rinaldi recommends Rapid Cross-OS Mobile App Development: Lessons Learned — A discussion of the process of planning, developing and testing a cross-platform hybrid app by Jordan Crone. Smashing Magazine Brian Rinaldi recommends Another Cordova Mashup – Pixelatize — A sample hybrid mobile app integrating Jenn Schiffer’s pixelatize to create pixelated images. Raymond Camden Holly Schinsky recommends Weigh - A command line tool for checking the weight of browserifiable modules — A command line tool to check the weight (in bytes) of any browserifiable module. Bjørge Næss 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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