This Week in Mobile Web Development (#79)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly October 21, 2015   #79 Holly Schinsky recommends Comparing The Top Frameworks For Building Hybrid Mobile Apps — A comparison of some of the most popular JavaScript frameworks available for building hybrid mobile apps with an overall score for each. Tutorialzine Holly Schinsky recommends Don’t Wait for ServiceWorker: Adding Offline Support with One-Line — A discussion of some methods for making your apps available offline and an option for doing so in one line without relying on ServiceWorkers. David Walsh Brian Rinaldi recommends The Viability of JS Frameworks on Mobile — Are the popular web frameworks suitable for building mobile pages? How do we address the poor performance of mobile web apps on mobile devices? Henrik Joreteg This issue is sponsored by Rangle.io New Case Study: Creating a Comprehensive Social Media App Using Ionic & PhoneGap — Access a video and in-depth case study on the end-to-end journey building the Sprout at Work mobile application using Ionic Framework and PhoneGap. Rangle.io Holly Schinsky recommends Template7: A Mobile-First JavaScript Template Engine — Template7 is a JavaScript template engine (with handlesbars-like syntax) optimized for mobile use. iDangero.us Holly Schinsky recommends Using Content Security Policy to Make Apps More Secure — An in-depth guide to Content Security Policy and how to use it to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks on your apps. 60 devs Peter Cooper recommends Mozilla Publishes Study on Mobile Opportunity in Emerging Markets — “Approaches to local content creation: realising the smartphone opportunity,” explores how the right tools and education can result in a sustainable, inclusive mobile Web. Mozilla Brian Rinaldi recommends Using npm Modules in NativeScript Mobile Apps — Todor Todev demonstrates how you can easily integrate npm modules into a NativeScript mobile app using the Telerik Platform. Telerik Developer Network Holly Schinsky recommends The Web Vs. Native Debate Comes To Virtual Reality — Diversification of devices in conjunction with the need for consistent performance of VR content across platforms is driving web apps to become the more dominant choice over native apps. Read Write Holly Schinsky recommends Debugging Your Apache Cordova iOS App With Safari — How to troubleshoot your hybrid apps using an iOS simulator and the Safari web browser. Nic Raboy's Blog Peter Cooper recommends Four Reasons The Mobile Web Will Force Us To Become Better Content Marketers Marketing Land Brian Rinaldi recommends Important note for targeting iOS Emulators in Cordova — How to update the supported list of emulators when using the Cordova CLI. Raymond Camden Brian Rinaldi recommends Accelerated Mobile Pages - I’ve Got More Questions than Answers — After playing with AMP, Andy Davies found mixed results and wonders if AMP simply reminds us that we failed at building a performant web. Andy Davies Brian Rinaldi recommends AMPed up — Jeremy Keith thinks that Google with AMP, as well as Facebook and Apple with their own efforts, are going through a lot of effort to recreate RSS - essentially these are all alternative syndication options. Jeremy Keith Holly Schinsky recommends Making Sense of Cordova Push Notification Options and APIs — Find out different options available for implementing push notifications in your mobile apps including how to configure them and various libraries and backend services available. MSDN Blogs Holly Schinsky recommends ionic-conference-app: A demo conference app built with Ionic 2 — A sample conference app built with Ionic 2. Ionic Holly Schinsky recommends Using Cordova Plugins in React Native (Android) — Learn how Cordova plugins can be leveraged for use with React Native. Parashuram's blog 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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