This Week in Mobile Web Development (#92)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly January 27, 2016   #92 Brian Rinaldi recommends Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator, A New Open Source Tool — Nadav Soferman explains the challenges with responsive image breakpoints today and a solution for finding the optimal breakpoints for each specific image. Smashing Magazine Brian Rinaldi recommends Google’s AMP Poised To Take The Lead From Facebook’s And Apple’s Walled Gardens — Frédéric Filloux explains why he think’s Google Accelerated Mobile Pages project will take the lead over the Facebook and Apple alternatives. Monday Note Peter Cooper recommends Google Shifts Chrome for iOS to Apple’s WKWebView, Reducing Crashes by 70% — Tests by Google proved the new update reduces the app’s crash rate by 70 percent, letting users pick up where they left off on a page from any device without a crash causing issues. Mac Rumors This issue is sponsored by Imgix Implement Responsive Images With No Hassle — Making images responsive doesn't have to be complicated. imgix handles every device size and orientation, and supports the srcset attribute, the picture element, and Client Hints. Integration is simple—try it out for the first month risk-free. Imgix Brian Rinaldi recommends Fast, Lightweight Data Storage for Cordova Apps with LokiJS — Wern Ancheta shows how to built an Ionic app that uses LokiJS for local storage. SitePoint Holly Schinsky recommends rtc-everywhere: Cross-Everything WebRTC Mega-Project — A spec-compliant WebRTC-in-as-many-environments-as-possible mega project. contra Holly Schinsky recommends Populate Controls in your PhoneGap Apps using a Client-Side Data Cache — How to use client-side data caching to populate the controls in your PhoneGap apps with Alpha Anywhere. Alpha Software Brian Rinaldi recommends Creating a Real Time Chat Application with Ionic 2 and Socket.io — Building upon a previous Angular 2 tutorial but porting to Ionic 2. Nic Raboy Peter Cooper recommends Facebook Updates Audience Network To Include Support For Mobile Web TechCrunch Brian Rinaldi recommends Native Mobile Maps from Telerik and Mapbox — Rob Lauer shows how to leverage Mapbox open source maps within a Cordova or NativeScript mobile app using the provided plugins. Telerik Developer Network Holly Schinsky recommends Foundation 6: The New Menu Component — Foundation 6 introduces a new, simpler to use menu component for your app navigation. SitePoint Holly Schinsky recommends 5 ways to speed up your design with UI kits — Different ways you can use UI kits to aid in your app design process. Creative Bloq Brian Rinaldi recommends ngCordova - Contributing a Plugin Mock with Tests — Todd Halfpenny shows how he built a printer mock for browser testing with the cordova-plugin-printer plugin. MobileCaddy Brian Rinaldi recommends Persist NativeScript App Data After an App has Closed — A look at the options why the author decided to use file from the file-system module to persist NativeScript app data after an app has closed. Mike Branstein Holly Schinsky recommends starter-framework7: A starter project structure for Framework7 app using Express and Vue.js — A starter project structure for Framework7 app using Express and Vue.js. Roshan Wu Brian Rinaldi recommends What happens when you screw up an Ionic Deployment? — In most cases, you can roll back and deploy a fix - but not in all. Raymond Camden 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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