This Week in Mobile Web Development (#93)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly February 3, 2016   #93 Brian Rinaldi recommends Browser Trends February 2016: Mobile Market Decline? — January’s mobile usage increased to 41.04% of all web activity, closing in on the 50:50 desktop/mobile ratio. SitePoint Brian Rinaldi recommends As Mobile Screen Size Increases...So Does Activity — According to data, bigger screens mean more Web browsing, social networking, and communicating up until about 6”. Luke Wroblewski Holly Schinsky recommends Leveraging Native UI in Cordova apps - Introducing Project Ace — Project Ace is a new Cordova plugin just introduced that lets you easily add native UI controls to a Cordova app, allowing you more flexibility when building your hybrid apps. Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) This issue is sponsored by PubNub Build Your Own Real-Time Chat App....Fast! — Learn how to easily build your own full-featured chat app for mobile. Send real-time messages and more in no time. Join this developer training webinar now. PubNub Holly Schinsky recommends PhoneGap Day US 2016 Resources — A quick recap of the PhoneGap Day US event last week including links to workshops and projects to check out for those interested in building hybrid apps. Devgirl's Weblog Peter Cooper recommends Facebook Shutting Down Parse — Parse was/is a popular provider of back-end services for mobile apps. It was acquired by Facebook and is being shut down. They have open sourced a server app to help users migrate away. Parse Holly Schinsky recommends Stacker - Kickstart Development of Hybrid iOS Apps — A framework allowing you to easily navigate between native iOS views and webviews. Loki Meyburg Peter Cooper recommends Samsung Allows Ad-Blocking On New Mobile Web Browser BBC News Holly Schinsky recommends PhoneGap Intermediate Workshop — An online workshop to help you start building an app past the getting started. Learn how to make your apps feel native and performant, how to add features with plugins, how to debug and more. Devgirl's Weblog Holly Schinsky recommends PhoneGap Push Notification Workshop — An online workshop walking you through how to implement push notifications in your hybrid apps. Simon MacDonald Brian Rinaldi recommends The Problem with the Chromium WebViews — Chromium WebViews can be updated but PPK thinks that consumers aren’t doing so because the Android update process is broken. QuirksMode Brian Rinaldi recommends WebView Stats — Although PPK still says the Android update process is broken, new stats indicate that in North America and Europe, 90% of users have the latest Chromium WebViews. QuirksMode Brian Rinaldi recommends Apache Cordova Development Lands on Visual Studio Code — Microsoft has announced a Cordova development extension for Visual Studio Code with features like IntelliSense for Cordova APIs and more. The Visual Studio Blog Brian Rinaldi recommends First Steps in Game Dev With NativeScript — Alexander Vakrilov shows how to build a Labyrinth game for mobile using TypeScript and NativeScript. NativeScript Blog Brian Rinaldi recommends Creating Cordova Applications with Bluemix — The push notifications and mobile client access features of IBM’s BlueMix cloud offering now support hybrid Cordova app development. Bluemix Blog Holly Schinsky recommends Continuous Mobile Beta Distribution Using VS Team Services, HockeyApp & CodePush — How you can leverage VS Services, HockeyApp and CodePush to manage your Cordova app build and distribution processes. MSDN Blog 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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