This Week in Mobile Web Development (#110)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly June 1, 2016   #110 Brian Rinaldi recommends State of The Mobile Gap Between Native and Web — What is the current state of the gap between the the mobile web and native apps? Remy gives his take. Remy Sharp Brian Rinaldi recommends Smart Responsive Design Patterns, Or When Off-Canvas Isn't Good Enough — This article features some of the slightly more obscure design patterns, such as responsive car-builder interfaces, mega dropdown navigation, content grids and charts, as well as responsive art direction. Vitaly Friedman Holly Schinsky recommends Sticky Footer, Five Ways — Five different ways to create a sticky footer in your app to ensure it “sticks” to the bottom of the browser window. Chris Coyier Sponsored The Easiest Way to Find a Job — Hired lets you sit back while job offers come to you. When you complete your profile, instantly apply to 3,500+ companies on the platform who will contact you with job offers, including salary and equity up-front. Try it today. Hired.com Peter Cooper recommends Progressive Web App Dev Summit 2016 — The summit (in Amsterdam later this month) will be two days of talks, codelabs and access to the Chrome engineers to discuss the future of the web. Google Chris Brandrick recommends Mobile Ad Blocking Rose 90% Last Year, Report Says — The number of smartphone owners using ad blocking software has risen by 90 percent over the past year, according to a new report, reaching nearly 420 million people worldwide. Amar Toor Holly Schinsky recommends Another Tool to Make Mobile Web Debugging Easier — Eruda is a new DevTools like console for mobile browsers to help debug your apps directly on your device. Surunzi Chris Brandrick recommends Google to Boost Mobile Web Speed on Apple Devices — Readers who search for news on Google’s iOS app will now get select articles faster (thanks to AMP). Jonathan Vanian Brian Rinaldi recommends Installing Ionic to Build Hybrid HTML5 Apps Mark Brown Holly Schinsky recommends Building a Cross Platform, Salesforce Powered, Contact List App — A sample contact list app tutorial that authenticates with Salesforce.com via OAuth, performs a SOQL query and populates a list with contacts from the SFDC cases. Chad Tetreault Holly Schinsky recommends Web Developers Looking to Get Into The Mobile Space? — An hour long talk on Ionic and the evolution of a hybrid framework. Sani Yusef Chris Brandrick recommends Mobile UX Design: The Right Ways to Ask Users for Permissions — Permission strategy depends on the clarity and importance of the permission type you are requesting. Nick Babich Brian Rinaldi recommends Converting Your Ionic 2 Mobile App to NativeScript — Both frameworks use Angular 2 and TypeScript, so Nic explores how easily you can make the move. Nic Raboy Brian Rinaldi recommends Rise of Ad-Blocking Software Threatens Online Revenue — 1 in 5 smartphone users block ads when browsing the web on phones. NY Times Holly Schinsky recommends Elixel attends: PhoneGap Day EU 2016 — A recap of PhoneGap Day EU 2016 from Christian Cook of Elixel. Elixel Holly Schinsky recommends How to Renew All Your Project's Cordova Plugins At Once — Updating your Cordova app project to get the latest platform specific support is a periodic task that could be made easier by following this tip. EeKay's Blog Holly Schinsky recommends ConfiGAP 2.0a Released — A new version of ConfiGAP was recently released to help you configure your mobile apps with PhoneGap Build. Chris Griffith Brian Rinaldi recommends NativeScript Android Application Package Size Revealed — A look at the architecture behind the NativeScript Android runtime and how it impacts the package size. Georgi Atanasov Sponsored Try RASON™ – RESTful Analytic Solver™ Object Notation for Web/Mobile Apps — Solve powerful optimization simulation models in your app easily with RASON®. Use a high-level modeling language embedded in JSON, a simple, Azure-backed REST API. RASON.com by Frontline Systems Inc 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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