This Week in Mobile Web Development (#91)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly January 20, 2016   #91 Brian Rinaldi recommends Mobile Web vs. Native Apps or Why You Want Both — Luke Wroblewski illustrates how data indicates that your business needs both a mobile web site to broaden its reach and a mobile app to broaden engagement through rich experiences. Luke Wroblewski Holly Schinsky recommends Perfecting Navigation for The Mobile Web — How to ensure your mobile app has a high quality user experience by refining your navigation approach. Webdesigner Depot This issue is sponsored by imgix Responsive Images in 30 Minutes or Less — With imgix, integrating responsive images into your site could not be easier. imgix is fully-compatible with the srcset attribute, the picture element, and Client Hints. Learn how to start delivering responsive images in less than 30 minutes. imgix Brian Rinaldi recommends Small is Beautiful: Why Desktop UX Still Has Something to Teach Mobile — What we can learn from desktop apps when it comes to handling text, window, and file tasks and how to apply that within a mobile app UX. Scott Jenson Holly Schinsky recommends Shared App Functionality via JavaScript — Using a JavaScript library to provide shared functionality for your native and hybrid apps. Square Engineering Blog Brian Rinaldi recommends The Woes of Date Input — Ian Devlin documents the various implementation quirks and issues of the ‘date’ input type on mobile and desktop browsers. HTML5 Doctor Brian Rinaldi recommends Everything I Know About Responsive Web Typography with CSS — An overview of 5 major practices for responsive typography and a new tool called Typi to help implement them. Zell Liew Brian Rinaldi recommends How to Create a To-Do List App With Polymer and Cordova — Ashraff Hathibelagal shows how to build a hybrid app that implements Material Design using Polymer, Polymer paper elements and Cordova. Nettuts+ Brian Rinaldi recommends Getting Started With Telerik AppBuilder — A walkthrough on building your first hybrid app using the Telerik Platorm. Nettuts+ Brian Rinaldi recommends Axway Acquires Appcelerator — Appcelerator were the makers of Titanium which allows the development of mobile apps via JavaScript. Appcelerator Brian Rinaldi recommends NativeScript for Appcelerator Developers — Josh Jensen compares and contrasts the concepts for developing applications using Titanium Alloy versus NativeScript for JavaScript developers. Telerik Developer Network Holly Schinsky recommends How To Update Your Project and CLI for Ionic 2 — A tutorial showing how to transition your hybrid app project built with Ionic 1 to Ionic 2. Gajotres.net Brian Rinaldi recommends Use The Android Palette Class With NativeScript — How to access the Android Palette class using JavaScript to extract color palettes from an image within a NativeScript app. Brad Martin Holly Schinsky recommends SOAP Web Services in Angular and Ionic — How to use SOAP web services in your hybrid apps built with Angular. Andrew McGivery Holly Schinsky recommends Advanced Cordova Geolocation Plugin for Android — An advanced Cordova Geolocation plugin for Android that returns real-time GPS and network location triangulation data, cached GPS and network location data and also helps minimize location fluctuations. Andy Gup Job listing Stop Applying to Jobs - Let Companies Apply to You — On Hired, sign up in 10 minutes and get offers from top companies like Facebook, Uber, & Stripe. Engineers get an average of 5 offers on the platform in 1 week. Try it today. 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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