This Week in Mobile Web Development (#116)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly July 13, 2016   #116 Chris Brandrick recommends Mobile Web Applications: Top CSS Techniques for Optimal Performance — Building mobile web applications with great performance can be hard. So here’s a look at how using current techniques and leveraging HTML5 and CSS3 can result in powerful ‘native-like’ experiences. Dinis Carvalho Brian Rinaldi recommends The Search For The Holy Grail: How I Ended Up With Element Queries, And How You Can Use Them Today — A discussion of the history and uses of element queries and how this led to the creation of EQCSS, a plugin that supports element queries, Scoped CSS, and more. Tommy Hodgins Peter Cooper recommends ZingTouch: A JavaScript Mobile Gesture Detection Library — Provides six standard gestures that are completely customizable (Try it on a touch-enabled device). ZingChart Sponsored Dropsource - Turn Your Web App Into A Native App with New Visual App Builder — Want to easily turn your web apps and APIs into truly native iOS and Android apps? With Dropsource, you can. Our visual app platform that makes building truly native iOS Android apps easier, faster, and more convenient. Join free today. Dropsource Brian Rinaldi recommends Hybrid or Native Mobile App? Use the Right Tool for the Job — When should you use hybrid apps and when should you go native? Learn about the differences and which is best for your mobile app development. Rob Lauer Peter Cooper recommends Browse eBay with Style and Speed — A look at efforts being made by eBay to improve users’ experiences when accessing their site on mobile devices. Senthil Padmanabhan Holly Schinsky recommends 3 Simple Steps to Improve Your React Redux Code — Useful tips on how to achieve an organized and more scalable setup for your React/Redux apps. Cheesecake Labs Chris Brandrick recommends Complexion Reduction: A New Trend in Mobile Design — Flat, Clean, Minimal, Material..what’s next? Michael Horton Brian Rinaldi recommends Developer Economics: State of Developer Nation Q1 2016 — A survey of over 21k developers offers some insights into how they are currently targeting mobile and devices. VisionMobile Brian Rinaldi recommends NativeScript Developer Day 2016 — A 1 day conference (with a pre-conference workshop) focused on native mobile development with JavaScript, AngularJS and the NativeScript open source platform. Progress Brian Rinaldi recommends What's New in NativeScript 2.1 — 2.1 includes load time and runtime optimizations on Android, tooling improvements and more. NativeScript.org Holly Schinsky recommends Working with Ionic Native - Shake, Rattle, and Roll — Ray talks about Ionic Native (the successor to ngCordova) and includes a sample app showing how to use it with the Cordova Device Motion plugin. Raymond Camden Peter Cooper recommends Build a Hybrid Mobile App with Angular 2 and Ionic 2 — A very thorough walkthrough. Ganga Chris Sponsored Job Offers. No resume necessary. — Create your Hired profile to get top companies to start applying to hire you. Get offers from $75,000 - $250,000 on the platform in 1 week. Hired.com Holly Schinsky recommends PluginPub - Publish Your PhoneGap Plugins to NPM — PluginPub is a tool to help automate publishing your Cordova/PhoneGap plugins to NPM. Simon MacDonald Holly Schinsky recommends Creating a Cordova Hybrid App with React, Redux and Webpack — How to create a Cordova hybrid weather app that uses Onsen UI, React and Redux to manage state. Onsen UI Brian Rinaldi recommends How Do Mobile Emulators Work? — Jen Looper explains the technology behind iOS and Android mobile emulators and why they function so differently. Telerik Developer Network 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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