This Week in Mobile Web Development (#86)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly December 9, 2015   #86 Brian Rinaldi recommends Mozilla Will Stop Developing And Selling Firefox OS Smartphones — The end of Firefox OS? Or will it live on? TechCrunch Holly Schinsky recommends Apache Cordova iOS v4.0.0 Released with Support for WKWebView — The long-awaited Cordova iOS v4.0.0 has been released with support for WKWebView and all its goodness. This important release also supports Asset Catalogs for SplashScreens and icons via the config.xml, as well as many other important updates. Apache Cordova Peter Cooper recommends Mobile Web vs Mobile Apps: Where Should You Invest Your Time? — A 15 minute video (with full transcription) on the decision between investing in building a mobile app versus focusing on the mobile Web. Rand Fishkin Peter Cooper recommends Google’s Plan To Accelerate The Mobile Web Will Go Live Early Next Year — Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project was announced in October but now it’s signed up even more publishers and has revealed users will be driven to AMP pages from ‘early next year’. TechCrunch This issue is sponsored by Hired.com Have Top Companies Compete Over Hiring You — You're in demand. Shouldn't companies come to you with offers upfront? We think so. Join the revolution and sign up for Hired today. Hired.com Brian Rinaldi recommends From ChocolateChip-UI to TruckJS — Robert Biggs, the creator of the Chocolate Chip UI mobile framework, talks about why he created Truck.js, which offers layouts, widgets, touch gestures, data filtering and data binding. CSS3 Wizardry Peter Cooper recommends Start-ups Refocus on Mobile Web As App-Only Strategy Loses Fizz Livemint Brian Rinaldi recommends NativeScript vs Ionic Framework, Should You Switch? — A comparison of the pros and cons of developing using Ionic and NativeScript and which, in Nic’s opinion, you should use. Nic Raboy Holly Schinsky recommends Creating an Ionic App with MySQL and Backand — How to create an Ionic App that utilizes MySQL and Backand (backend-as-a-service for AngularJS). The Official Ionic Blog Brian Rinaldi recommends Mobile Navigation Design Fundamentals — A look at the different styles of navigation commonly used in mobile apps and the benefits and drawbacks of each. The Kinetic UI Brian Rinaldi recommends Helping VIPs Care About Performance — Lara Hogan explains how to use metrics to get company VIPs invested in improving the performance of a site, such as showing them how it loads on mobile devices. 24 Ways Holly Schinsky recommends How to Create a Directive in Ionic 2 to add a Parallax Header — How to extend Ionic 2 with directives to create a Parallax effect. Josh Morony Holly Schinsky recommends Week #8: Remaking an Ionic Application — A developer discusses the reasons he chose to rewrite an existing app using the Ionic framework. Aldo Ziflaj Brian Rinaldi recommends Mozilla launches Focus, a new ad-blocker for iOS — Focus offers fine-grained control over what to block from a given page, with different settings to block ads, analytics, and tracking through social networks like Facebook. The Verge Brian Rinaldi recommends Ionic/Cordova Demo: Where did I take that picture? — A demo hybrid app that accesses the metadata of photos and uses the latitude and longitude to try to determine where it was taken. Raymond Camden Holly Schinsky recommends Weather7 App Template — A sample app template for Framework7 showing the use of Manifest Cache, Material Design, Local Storage, YQL and the Flickr API. Noodlio 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 Sponsor listing NEW WEBINAR: Why React Native is Better Than Native for Your Mobile Application — Learn the foundations and move towards a radical fusion of mobile native and hybrid JavaScript development to understand why React Native should be the choice for your next mobile web project. Rangle.io 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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