This Week in Mobile Web Development (#88)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly December 30, 2015   #88 Peter Cooper recommends The App-ocalypse: Can Web Standards Make Mobile Apps Obsolete? — Many big tech companies—absent Apple—are throwing weight behind a browser-based world. Ars Technica Brian Rinaldi recommends Being Responsive to the Small Things — Jonathan Snook looks at JavaScript solutions for implementing container queries, media queries that apply to a single component on a page. 24 ways Holly Schinsky recommends HTML5 Hybrid Apps with Native Features: Alpha's PhoneGap Integration — Alpha Anywhere automates PhoneGap Build in their integrated development environment. Alpha Software 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 Brian Rinaldi recommends We’re Not There Yet: Images, Scripts and Redirects Are Slowing Down the Top Mobile Travel Sites — Among other findings, this test found that the median travel page took 6.7 seconds to load on the iPhone 6 and 5.5 seconds to load on the iPhone 5, exceeding the 4 second target. Web Performance Today Peter Cooper recommends In Search of A Cure for Slow Mobile Downloads — Why the mobile Web is slow and how developers of native mobile apps can eliminate the wait InfoWorld Holly Schinsky recommends Using Chrome Traces to Automate Rendering Performance — How to automate the collection of metrics for use in analyzing your app's performance in the browser. Parashuram's blog Holly Schinsky recommends PhoneGap Day 2016 — The European PhoneGap Day 2016 website has been launched, be sure to mark your calendars. phonegap.com Peter Cooper recommends Pocket-Sized JavaScript — JavaScript on the mobile web has a bad rap as being slow and non-performant. Henrik argues that by being minimalist from the start and using new techniques like Virtual DOM and Web Workers, we can do more with less and build blazing fast apps on mobile. Henrik Joreteg Brian Rinaldi recommends Animation in Responsive Design — Val Head shares some approaches to making animations work nicely in more constrained viewports. 24 Ways Holly Schinsky recommends 11 Ground-Breaking Web Development Trends for 2016 — 11 important web development trends to be aware of for 2016. Designzzz Holly Schinsky recommends GapDebug 2.2 Released — Genuitec releases version 2.2 including an update to the iOS debugger and more. Genuitec Brian Rinaldi recommends Working with the Facebook API in a Cordova App — Wern Ancheta shows how to use the official Facebook plugin for Cordova. SitePoint Holly Schinsky recommends Understanding Ionic 2: Class — Understanding how to use ES6 Classes in your hybrid mobile apps built with Ionic. Andrew McGivery Brian Rinaldi recommends A quick example of the Ionic Loading Widget — An example of how easily you can add a loading animation using Ionic in a hybrid app to let users know a longer process is running. Raymond Camden Holly Schinsky recommends es6-phonegap — A PhoneGap project template including browserify, babelify and babel-preset-es2015. Steve Gill Holly Schinsky recommends cordova-check-plugins: A CLI tool to check for updates to plugins — A CLI tool to check for updates and manage the update of plugins for Cordova/Phonegap projects. Dave Alden Holly Schinsky recommends ionic-photo-browser: When F7 and ionic meet — A photo browser app template with pinch to zoom and swipe to close built with Ionic and Framework7. Pulkit Kathuria Holly Schinsky recommends ionic-starter-cardboard: A Google Cardboard template for Ionic — A Google Cardboard (a cheap VR-style system) template for Ionic using Three.js and WebGL. Ionic Holly Schinsky recommends cordova-plugin-facebook4: Use the latest Facebook SDK in your Cordova and Ionic projects — A Cordova plugin for using the Facebook SDK in your hybrid mobile apps. Jeduan Cornejo Job listing New Year, New Job — Say hello to 2016 and goodbye to the headache of looking for a new job. Hired makes finding your dream job easier than ever before. What are you waiting for? 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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