This Week in Mobile Web Development (#89)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly January 6, 2016   #89 Brian Rinaldi recommends The Phablet Era — According to Fred Wilson, people are converging on a single device format, the so-called phablet, and it has repercussions on how they use their devices. AVC Brian Rinaldi recommends Putting My Patterns through Their Paces — Ethan Marcotte advocates a more device-agnostic and layered design process for building responsive sites. 24 ways Holly Schinsky recommends Why I Released an Ionic 2 & Angular 2 Application — Josh explains the reasons he decided to use the alpha version of Ionic 2 (dependent on the beta Angular 2) to develop and release his latest mobile app. Josh Morony This issue is sponsored by imgix Decrease Page Weight and Load Times with Responsive Images — With imgix, integrating responsive images into your stack could not be easier. imgix can connect to an S3 bucket to resize, process, and serve images via CDN. Learn how to improve your images in less than 30 minutes. imgix Holly Schinsky recommends Using Socket.IO and Cordova to Create a Real Time Chat App — A tutorial on building a real-time chat app with Cordova and Socket.IO. SitePoint Holly Schinsky recommends What's New in Foundation 6? — Foundation is a family of responsive front-end frameworks that make it easy to design beautiful responsive websites, apps and emails. SitePoint Brian Rinaldi recommends Flip that App! Hybrid Mobile to JavaScript Native — Jen Looper explains the process of converting a existing hybrid mobile app to a JavaScript native app built with NativeScript. Telerik Developer Network Brian Rinaldi recommends An Introduction to Cordova: Basics — The first part of a series introduces Cordova and how to get set up and started. Nettuts+ Holly Schinsky recommends Set Up Push Notification for Cordova/Phonegap App on the Parse.com Platform — How to set up your PhoneGap app to support push notifications with the Parse.com platform. Gaurav Butola Brian Rinaldi recommends A Few Predictions in Mobility for 2016 — Daniel Levy shares his personal predictions for the coming year including his belief that hybrid will lose further momentum. Telerik Blogs Brian Rinaldi recommends Microsoft delays its Windows 10 Mobile upgrade to early 2016 — The upgrade for existing Lumia devices from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 is being pushed back. The Verge Brian Rinaldi recommends Using Ionic Creator with MobileFirst 7.1 — How to integrate the output from Ionic Creator into IBM’s cloud app development platform. Raymond Camden Brian Rinaldi recommends Average Page Weight Increased Another 16% in 2015 — Dave Buckler cites data from HTTP Archive to report that average page weight increased 16% to 2,262KB in 2015. SitePoint Brian Rinaldi recommends Use Font Awesome Glyph Icons With NativeScript — The steps to add Font Awesome to a JavaScript native project using NativeScript. Nic Raboy Holly Schinsky recommends The 21-Step Checklist for Bulletproof Mobile User Onboarding — Why the user onboarding experience should be a primary focus during your mobile app development and useful tips to ensure your users keep coming back. SitePoint Brian Rinaldi recommends What Happened In 2015 — One of Fred Wilson’s reflections on 2015 includes the end of the mobile app gold rush, with 8 of the top 9 apps being owned by Facebook and Google. AVC Holly Schinsky recommends ionic-flat-colors: SCSS with New Options of Flat Colors for Ionic Components — A new library providing flat color palette options for your Ionic apps. Be sure to check out the documentation page for examples of the colors and styled components. Matheus Cruz Rocha Job listing Mobile Software Engineer with MyDrive, London — We need a smart engineer with 3+ years experience to develop the future of Telematics through customer facing mobile technologies. You will be commercially experienced in developing either iOS or Android and ready to get stuck in as part of a great team here at MyDrive. MyDrive Solutions 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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