This Week in Mobile Web Development (#84)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly November 25, 2015   #84 Holly Schinsky recommends Is the Floating Action Button the new Hamburger Menu? — Why Material Design’s floating action button appears to be following the same trajectory as the Hamburger Menu. Webdesigner Depot Brian Rinaldi recommends Basic Patterns for Mobile Navigation — Raluca Budiu says mobile navigation must be discoverable, accessible, and take little screen space. Nielsen Norman Group Holly Schinsky recommends Don't Lose User and App State, Use Page Visibility — Use the Page Visibility API’s functionality to save a session and restore the logic when the state of visibility changes to provide a reliable and consistent user experience. Ilya Grigorik This issue is sponsored by Telerik Fast Forward Mobile App Development — Make building next generation mobile apps a breeze. Learn how to mobilize your data securely, and deploy and develop beautiful apps across multiple operating systems, all with one unified platform. Join Telerik’s webinar Dec. 3. Telerik Peter Cooper recommends How to Win At Mobile Accessibility — How can we create mobile experiences that are accessible for people with disabilities? Marcy Sutton looks at the mobile web-vs-native debate and shows how we can use our skills as web developers to create brilliant mobile apps. Marcy Sutton Holly Schinsky recommends Huge Popularity of Cordova in Japan Provides Lessons for Global Developers — Japan has shown a huge increase in Cordova adoption after the large rise in demand for mobile. jaxenter Brian Rinaldi recommends Progressive Web Apps: ready for primetime — What are progressive web apps, how do they differ from a regular web site and are they ready to use today. Bruce Lawson Brian Rinaldi recommends Rolling Out Responsive — An excerpt from Karen McGrane’s book Going Responsive, discusses different approaches and the pros and cons of each. A List Apart Holly Schinsky recommends Onsen UI 2.0 Beta is Out And You Should Check It Out — Details about what’s new and changed in Onsen UI 2.0 Beta and why you should check it out for your hybrid app development. Brian Rinaldi recommends Page Weight Doesn't Matter — The total size of a webpage, measured in bytes, has little to do with its load time. Nate Berkopec says the issue is latency. Nate Berkopec Brian Rinaldi recommends Progressive Web App: A New Way to Experience Mobile — A look at how Flipkart built their progressive web app using service workers. Flipkart Brian Rinaldi recommends On Keeping Breakpoints DRY — Eduardo Bouças discusses his workflow for keeping his breakpoints maintainable. CSS-Tricks Holly Schinsky recommends Aristote - A new mobile app theme available for Framework7 — A new mobile app theme is available for use in your Framework7 hybrid apps. Noodlio Holly Schinsky recommends Apache Cordova Extension for Visual Studio Code — A new extension is coming soon to add IntelliSense, cordova command and debugging support to the Visual Studio Code editor to help with your hybrid app development. Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) Peter Cooper recommends Scaled/Proportional Content with CSS and JavaScript Chris Coyier Brian Rinaldi recommends The best way to develop and run NativeScript projects in an emulator — The pros and cons of various methods for running NativeScript applications in an emulator. Dan Wilson Holly Schinsky recommends PhoneGap Desktop App 0.2.0 — The PhoneGap Desktop App has undergone a rewrite to use Electron. As a result, this new version needs to be manually downloaded and installed. PhoneGap Blog Holly Schinsky recommends Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) — Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) can help you get setup for building Apache Cordova apps quickly across multiple platforms. Tools for Apache Cordova Job listing We'll Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse — Sign up with Hired, and have companies send you offers with base salary, and total compensation up front. How could you refuse that? Hired.com 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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