This Week in Mobile Web Development (#125)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly September 14, 2016   #125 Holly Schinsky recommends What Progressive Web Apps Are Really All About — Many think that Progressive Web Apps are all about speed and performance, but maybe it’s just about the apps. Dan Rowinski Brian Rinaldi recommends Android Pay Is Coming to The Mobile Web 'Soon', Available First On Chrome — Android’s mobile payment system will work on the mobile web “soon” according to Google, though no specifics are given. James Vincent Chris Brandrick recommends Is Now A Good Time to Start Using Web Bluetooth? (Hint: Yes, Yes It Is) — Into IoT and the Web? If you like playing with cutting edge, user-facing tech, you should check out Web Bluetooth. Uri Shaked Sponsored Java/Android Dev Training: How to Build a Fully Featured Chat App — Learn to build your own Java/Android chat app with realtime messages and more. Watch Now. PubNub Brian Rinaldi recommends The 2016 U.S. Mobile App Report — According to Comscore, “mobile audience growth is being driven more by mobile web properties, which are actually bigger and growing faster than apps.” comScore, Inc Holly Schinsky recommends Introducing iOS Web Debugging for VS Code on Windows and Mac — Mobile web developers can now debug JavaScript running on their iOS devices directly from Visual Studio Code. Microsoft Holly Schinsky recommends Do We Need Better Prototyping or Simpler Coding? — “No points for guessing. It’s the second one.” Daniel Hollick Holly Schinsky recommends Announcing PWA Support in Ionic 2 — “One of our goals with Ionic 2 is to make PWAs a first-class citizen right out of the box” — the first iteration of that is now available when you create a new Ionic 2 app. Ionic Holly Schinsky recommends Integrating Native Google Maps into an Ionic 2 Application Josh Morony Holly Schinsky recommends Fixing 'Browser Has Stopped' Errors in the Android Simulator Raymond Camden Brian Rinaldi recommends Simple CSS Media Queries — A huge, searchable list of device-specific breakpoints. Michael Gannon Brian Rinaldi recommends Use amp-img and amp-video to Speed Up Your Site Kezz Bracey Holly Schinsky recommends Mobile Commerce Wars: Apps Versus Mobile Web — The explosive growth in mobile and how it’s disrupting industries and impacting brands. VentureBeat Brian Rinaldi recommends React Native Elements UI Toolkit — A set of cross-platform UI elements for React Native apps. React Native Community Holly Schinsky recommends Content Security Policy, Your Future Best Friend — Why Content Security Policy (CSP) is important and what you need to be aware of when configuring it. Nicolas Hoffmann Holly Schinsky recommends Building a Mobile App with Cordova and Vue.js — Learn how to build a random word generator using Cordova and Vue.js. coligo Holly Schinsky recommends Come See Us At These Upcoming PhoneGap Events — A list of upcoming events the PhoneGap team will be presenting at in the near future. PhoneGap Blog Holly Schinsky recommends Basic Patterns for Mobile Navigation — A comparison of three basic navigation patterns for mobile apps; hamburger menu, tab bar and gesture-based navigation. Nick Babich Chris Brandrick recommends What, Exactly, Makes Something A Progressive Web App? — “A PWA is functionally defined by the technical properties that allow the browser to detect that the site meets certain criteria and is worthy of being added to the homescreen.” Alex Russell Holly Schinsky recommends How Google And Others Are Plotting The Revenge of the Web App — Evolving technology and app store frustrations could give the once-overhyped web app another shot at relevance. Jared Newman Brian Rinaldi recommends Building Resizeable Components with Relative CSS Units — A ton of examples for taking relative units beyond just font sizing. Ahmad Shadeed Holly Schinsky recommends Developing for Android vs. iOS: Material vs. Flat Design — The first post in a series on Material vs Flat Design, focused on the high-level design differences between Android and iOS. Jordan Réjaud 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 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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