This Week in Mobile Web Development (#85)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly December 2, 2015   #85 Holly Schinsky recommends Using the Battery Status API to Optimize Your Development — The Battery API has become more widely supported on mobile browsers. Find out why and how you may want to use it in your upcoming app development. SitePoint Peter Cooper recommends A Sneak Peek at Chrome DevTools Device Mode V2 — Chrome DevTools’s ‘Device Mode’ will let you emulate a variety of mobile devices in the normal desktop browser making mobile Web development easier. YouTube Brian Rinaldi recommends Frameworks — Ethan Marcotte on thinking about layout in responsive design outside of the confines of columns and grids. A List Apart This issue is sponsored by Corgibytes Hate Fixing Bugs? Lucky You. We Love It. — Tackling technical debt and integrating disparate systems is fun, too. (Yes, really.) Corgibytes Brian Rinaldi recommends antimoderate — This library can help reduce the initial page weight on your site by rendering blurred micro images on the page while loading full size images in background. GitHub Holly Schinsky recommends What's new for PhoneGap Day US 2016 — Check out the latest on PhoneGap Day US, including the just announced workshop schedule, details of the location and FREE ski day included in the registration. PhoneGap Holly Schinsky recommends Intro to Framework7 — An introduction and overview of Framework7, an HTML/JS library for developing hybrid apps on iOS and Android. PhoneGap Blog Peter Cooper recommends How to Get Started with Ionic Framework On Mac and Windows Nikola Breznjak Peter Cooper recommends Top Ten Mistakes While Implementing Responsive Web Design — Responsive web design is evolving every day but not every business is able to implement it the right way. It’s important to know that responsive design is a process of continual improvement. Keval Padia Holly Schinsky recommends Creating a Calculator App with Ionic — In-depth tutorial on how to create a calculator hybrid app with Ionic. Pluralsight Tutorials Brian Rinaldi recommends How to tell if a Cordova application is running in the simulator — An update to the device plugin now provides an isVirtual property that can signify if the app is running in the simulator. Raymond Camden Brian Rinaldi recommends A Guide To Simple And Painless Mobile User Testing — The software and setup for performing user tests on mobile devices. Smashing Magazine Brian Rinaldi recommends A New Responsive Font Format for the Web? Robin Rendle Holly Schinsky recommends Designing Healthcare Apps With Delight — Health-focused apps are on the rise, check out this guide to best practices for designing consumer-facing healthcare apps. Smashing Magazine Holly Schinsky recommends Important update for Apache Cordova and Android — If you’re using the Android emulator with Apache Cordova you should check out the recent updates noted in this post. Raymond Camden's Blog Holly Schinsky recommends cordova-plugin-3dtouch: Add quick home icon actions and link previews — A new Cordova plugin is available for adding quick icon actions and link previews to your hybrid apps (includes demo). Eddy Verbruggen Job listing Want to create React Native Apps in NYC? — We're looking for JavaScript engineers to build mobile apps using React Native in our New York City offices. delivery.com Job listing Get 10 offers from top tech companies in one week — Indeed Prime is an elite new program from Indeed.com that presents in-demand tech talent like you to top employers. Indeed Prime opens the door to exciting career opportunities with one simple application. Join today! Indeed 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

by via Mobile Web Weekly