This Week in Mobile Web Development (#99)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly March 16, 2016   #99 Peter Cooper recommends Progressive Web Apps and What's Next for Mobile — Google’s Alex Russell gave a talk at Fluent about a new way to build web apps that combines emerging browser features to bring mobile apps up to desktop standards. (Note: Click the X to skip the login wall.) O'Reilly Media Holly Schinsky recommends 7 Reasons Why Ionic 2 Is Better Than Ionic 1 — Josh explains the specific things he likes about Ionic 2 over Ionic 1 from a development perspective. Josh Morony Peter Cooper recommends Building a Mobile-First WordPress-Powered Artists Website — A free video course covering the complete process of designing an artist’s website from a mobile-first perspective using WordPress as a CMS. CSS Tricks 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 Use 'rem' for Global Sizing; Use 'em' for Local Sizing — Robin Rendle explains a process for building stylesheets for a responsive site that uses both em and rem to give more control at the module level. CSS-Tricks Holly Schinsky recommends Angular 2 and the Future of HTML5 Apps — Brad Green’s keynote from Fluent on how new techniques are making it easy to use advanced browser features like Web Workers, HTTP/2, and service workers for building robust apps. O'Reilly Media Brian Rinaldi recommends Getting Started With Ionic — The first part in this series by Jeremy Wilken is a general introduction to Ionic and how to get set up. Nettuts+ Brian Rinaldi recommends Announcing Tools for Apache Cordova Update 7 — The plugin now uses Cordova 6.0.0 as a default and added some Ionic templates. The Visual Studio Blog Brian Rinaldi recommends A Never-Ending Story On Ad-Blockers — Running a popular site that depends on advertising, Vitaly Friedman has a lot of insight on the impact of ad blockers and how to deal with them as a publisher. Smashing Magazine Brian Rinaldi recommends The Web’s Original Sin — PPK thinks ad blockers are not the real problem (and affect a small portion of the web by his numbers). Instead, he thinks the expectation of free content that has always existed on the web is at fault. QuirksMode Peter Cooper recommends How To Make Users Think Your App Loads Faster — What to show users whilst they are waiting. Nick Babich Brian Rinaldi recommends My First Ionic Framework App, and what I learned from it — A developer shares code and experiences from building his first Ionic hybrid app and publishing it to the marketplace. Jorge Vergara Holly Schinsky recommends Part 6: Build an App With Ionic 2 - Navigating between pages — Part 6 in a series on building an Ionic 2 app with a focus on navigation from page to page. gonehybrid.com Peter Cooper recommends The Mobile Web Sucks. Is Google AMP the Solution? Contently Holly Schinsky recommends Cordova-Plugin-Paystack: Add Paystack Payments to your hybrid apps — A Cordova plugin for adding Paystack Payments to your hybrid apps using the Paystack Mobile SDK Native library. Tolu Olowu Holly Schinsky recommends The State of Browser APIs — An in-depth post detailing some popular browser APIs, how they work and the current status of support for them. Barış Güler Holly Schinsky recommends PhoneGap Push Plugin 1.6.0 — A new version of the PhoneGap Push Plugin was released with changes to the action button handling, the installation process and more. PhoneGap Blog Brian Rinaldi recommends FullScreen and Navigation Bar Color in a NativeScript Android app — How to customize the visibility and color of the navigation bar on Android using JavaScript in a NativeScript app. Brad Martin Brian Rinaldi recommends Using Custom Components in NativeScript — A look at creating and using a custom UI component in a NativeScript app. Bradley Gore 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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