This Week in Mobile Web Development (#118)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly July 27, 2016   #118 Chris Brandrick recommends Mobile First: Insights From Going Mobile Only — An extensive writeup of what a developer experienced by going ‘mobile only’ for a month, and the best practices he picked up. Joe Toscano Holly Schinsky recommends Add Offline Support to Any Web App — How to add support for offline caching to your apps to provide an instant loading experience. Wassim Chegham Holly Schinsky recommends Mobile Web Navigation Best Practices — An in-depth article on mobile web navigation tips and best practices you can use to provide the best experience for your apps. Visual Hierarchy Blog Sponsored AngularJS Tutorial: Build a Feature Loaded Chat App — Learn to build your own AngularJS chat app with realtime messages and more in no time. View Tutorial. PubNub Brian Rinaldi recommends Responsive Web Design is not Mobile First — Shrinking your desktop site to fit on a phone using RWD techniques, as many companies do, is not an approach that will make mobile users happy. The Huffington Post Peter Cooper recommends Why Marketers Should Care About Mobile Page Speed — New research reveals the factors that cause your mobile site to underperform. Google Holly Schinsky recommends Create A Mobile App From Your Angular 2 Web App with NativeScript — How to take an Angular 2 web app and bring it to mobile using NativeScript. Nic Raboy Brian Rinaldi recommends Use React Native to a Create a Face Recognition App — How to use the Microsoft Face API within React Native. Wern Ancheta Holly Schinsky recommends Real-Time Chat App with OnsenUI and Horizon — Learn how to build a mobile chat app with Onsen UI, RethinkDB and the Horizon open source real-time backend. Onsen UI Chris Brandrick recommends Conversational Interfaces: Where Are We Today? Where Are We Heading? — The current state of conversational interfaces, the challenges they bring and where things are heading. Cosima Mielke Holly Schinsky recommends React App SDK: A New Productivity Tool for Building React Apps — React APP SDK is a new productivity tool for front-end developers building apps with React/Webpack and requires a single dependency with no build configurations. Konstantin Tarkus Holly Schinsky recommends imperiojs Library: To Bridge the Gap Between Mobile and Desktop — A new open-source JavaScript interaction library that allows you to control your laptop browser using your mobile device. imperiojs Brian Rinaldi recommends Fact Checking The Web… or Just Some Reddit Thread About NativeScript — A response to some recent Reddit comments that reflect common misperceptions about NativeScript. Brad Martin Brian Rinaldi recommends Q2 Android WebView Statistics — The latest batch of data from Scientia Mobile shows that well over 60% of Android phones run the latest Chromium WebView. PPK Brian Rinaldi recommends Accessible UI Components for the Web — A look at the four key areas of disability to consider: visual, hearing, mobility and cognition. Addy Osmani Holly Schinsky recommends User Experience Monitoring on Hybrid Applications — How to create a hybrid mobile app and add user experience monitoring to it with Dynatrace. Bert Van der Heyden Holly Schinsky recommends Part 2: Creating a Multiple User App with Ionic 2, PouchDB & CouchDB — Part 2 of a tutorial on how to create an app with PouchDB and CouchDB that supports multiple users and authentication. Josh Morony Sponsored Komodo IDE: The Best IDE for Web and Mobile Developers — Web & mobile devs get all their favorite frameworks, languages, and tools in one cross-platform, polyglot IDE. ActiveState Brian Rinaldi recommends The Progress of Web Apps — An update to an earlier Medium article about PWAs and Windows that reflects more recent information. Microsoft Edge Team Holly Schinsky recommends Bootstrap 2 Ionic — Bootstrap to Ionic is a new tool for easily converting your bootstrap 3 themes to a matching Ionic theme. Max Lynch Holly Schinsky recommends The Best of Google I/O 2016 — A post covering highlights from Google I/O including ServiceWorkers, CSS containment, payment APIs, animation techniques, devtools features and more. Andrew Betts Holly Schinsky recommends Tips and Tricks for Styling Ionic 2 Applications — Specific “tips & tricks” relevant to Ionic 2 development. Josh Morony Job listing Stop Applying to Jobs - Let Companies Come To You — On Hired, engineers typically get 5+ job offers in 1 week. Find that new opportunity you've been craving and get access to 4,000+ companies instantly. 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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