This Week in Mobile Web Development (#97)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly March 2, 2016   #97 Holly Schinsky recommends Preload: What Is It Good For? — New preload support landing in Chrome opens up a new set of loading capabilities that can increase the performance of your apps. Smashing Magazine Holly Schinsky recommends How to Create Mobile-Friendly Interactive Maps — How to add interactive maps to your hybrid apps using the lightweight open source Leaflet mapping library. Creative Bloq Brian Rinaldi recommends Look Ma, No Media Queries! — A sample by Thierry based upon the work of Rémi Parmentier that creates a responsive layout without media queries. CodePen This issue is sponsored by Rangle Jump-start Your Ionic 2 App, the next generation of HTML5 Mobile — Ionic 2 beta is here and is re-worked from the ground up to take advantage of new Angular 2 features. In this blog, one of our experts leads a tutorial on how to set up an Ionic 2 application to demonstrate what’s available now, while talking about some additional opportunities Ionic 2 presents. Rangle Holly Schinsky recommends High-Performance Web Worker Messages — The way Web Worker messages are sent can greatly impact performance. Learn how to send them to achieve the highest performance in your own apps. Nolan Lawson Brian Rinaldi recommends AMP: Will it Make Your Sites Faster? — An overview of the current state of the AMP project and whether you should care about it. Nettuts+ Brian Rinaldi recommends Life After AMP — Paul says that AMP is not for everyone as it is currently optimized for static pages, but he discusses how it moves forward. Paul Bakaus Brian Rinaldi recommends Taking AMP for a Spin — Another detailed look at Google’s AMP project and why it's worth exploring, by David Attard. CSS-Tricks Holly Schinsky recommends A Summary of Recent Updates to PhoneGap — A roundup of some recent news to be aware of if you’re building hybrid apps with Cordova/PhoneGap. Devgirl's Weblog Brian Rinaldi recommends How to Create a News Reader With React Native: Setup and News Item Component — The first part in a two part series by Wernher-Bel Ancheta that covers the development process for creating a news reader app using React Native. Nettuts+ Brian Rinaldi recommends On Ad Blocking — Ad blocking somehow needs to reach the point where it blocks the bad ads but allows the useful ones in order to balance the needs of users and the needs of publishers. Bruce Lawson Brian Rinaldi recommends Building Customer-Facing Mobile Apps with Angular 2, Ionic 2, and Salesforce — Building a sample realty app using Ionic that connects to a Salesforce back end. Christophe Coenraets Peter Cooper recommends How Publishers Are Approaching Google’s AMP Initiative Nieman Lab Holly Schinsky recommends Add In App Purchases To Your Cordova App - Step By Step Guide — A new Cordova plugin and step by step guide to help you support In App Purchases in your hybrid apps. Alex Disler Brian Rinaldi recommends Webinar: Mobile-First Development with NativeScript — The final session in this free webinar (registration required) shows how to take a web-based front end and rebuild it for mobile using NativeScript. Couchbase Holly Schinsky recommends Announcing Adobe Experience Manager Mobile — Adobe Experience Manager Mobile helps enterprises get their content to market quickly by providing a one stop solution for building, managing, measuring and optimizing their mobile apps. AEM Mobile Blog Brian Rinaldi recommends Using Native Libraries in NativeScript — Brad Martin explores how easy it is to leverage freely available native libraries on Android or iOS using JavaScript within a NativeScript mobile app. Telerik Developer Network 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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