This Week in Mobile Web Development (#124)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly September 7, 2016   #124 Peter Cooper recommends Washington Post Unveils ‘Lightning-Fast’ Mobile Website — Uses both AMP and PWA technologies, and 70% of the Post’s traffic now comes from mobile devices. Jack Marshall Brian Rinaldi recommends Why “Progressive Web Apps Vs. Native” is the Wrong Question to Ask — Dan argues that starting with a progressive web app is a “no-brainer” and, until Safari adds PWA support, you could just do PWA + iOS app. Dan Dascalescu Holly Schinsky recommends The Next Great Platform is the One That We Already Have — Many say the mobile app boom is finished, yet there are still hundreds of core needs that aren’t being met by mobile today but could be. Josh Elman Sponsored Convert live website URLs into native Android & iOS — Check out 1000s of successfully published apps in the app stores - examples, or try it out for free GONATIVE.IO Brian Rinaldi recommends Responsive Images In WordPress With Art Direction — Art direction offers the ability to design with images whose crop or composition changes at certain breakpoints. Laurie Laforest Holly Schinsky recommends Create An Audio Recorder App using Ionic 2 — How to record and play back audio in your Ionic 2 mobile apps. Erik Schier Chris Marshall recommends The Building Blocks Of Progressive Web Apps — Some do’s and dont’s on how to make a progressive web app. Ada Rose Edwards Holly Schinsky recommends Designing a Progressive Web App Icon — Mustafa stresses that when designing an app icon you need to value the “place on a person’s home screen”. Here’s some things to consider when designing visuals for your PWA. Mustafa Kurtuldu Brian Rinaldi recommends The Imitation Game — A response to some recent articles that suggested that progressive web apps should imitate native apps. Jeremy Keith Holly Schinsky recommends demo-progressive-web-app: A Simple Progressive Web Application — A simple progressive web app that works offline, uses push notifications, background sync, add to home screen and more. Gokulakrishnan Kalaikovan Holly Schinsky recommends Little Big Details For Your Mobile App — Useful and practical tips to help you deliver the best user experience for your mobile apps. Nick Babich Brian Rinaldi recommends Tabris Maps 2.0 Released — A complete overhaul in 2.0. Moritz Post Holly Schinsky recommends Mobile Design Techniques — Learn techniques to help you remove unnecessary elements and focus more on the specific functionality your apps are built for. Nick Babich Holly Schinsky recommends The Future of Web Apps — The gap between native apps and web apps is narrowing. Discover the world of progressive web apps, and how they can help our apps level up. Chris Mills Brian Rinaldi recommends Visual Studio Code Now Allow iOS Web App Debugging — A new extension for Visual Studio Code, allows debugging web apps running on iOS devices directly from the editor both on Mac and Windows. Sergio De Simone Holly Schinsky recommends Understanding Zones and Change Detection in Ionic 2 & Angular 2 — An introduction to Angular 2 zones and change detection to help you better understand them for developing mobile apps with Ionic 2. Josh Morony Holly Schinsky recommends A Preview of Vue.js support for Onsen UI — Onsen UI has released a preview version of a binding library for Vue.js, allowing you to integrate Onsen UI components in Vue.js apps. Onsen UI Sponsored Find Your Perfect Company Match — You're smart, you're efficient. Why job hunt the old way? Try Hired and get your profile in front of thousands of top tech companies. 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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