This Week in Mobile Web Development (#126)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly September 21, 2016   #126 Chris Brandrick recommends The Thumb Zone: Designing For Mobile Users — What “thumb zone” actually means and why it’s such an important factor in the design and development of mobile interfaces today. Samantha Ingram Peter Cooper recommends Google Results Are Now Officially 'AMP’d' — “Now when you search on your mobile device, you’ll see a label that indicates a page is AMP’d.” AMP is the Accelerated Mobile Pages project initially started at Google. Google Brian Rinaldi recommends From WordPress to Apple News, Instant Articles, and AMP — Chris Coyier (of CSS Tricks) looks at ways to republish a WordPress blog to Apple News, Facebook’s Instant Articles and AMP. Chris Coyier Sponsored 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 Peter Cooper recommends Onsen UI 2 Released: A Hybrid Mobile App Framework and Toolset — Onsen has become a popular way to develop hybrid and mobile web apps, especially as it lets you be agnostic and use Angular, Vue, React, and even Meteor. Onsen UI Brian Rinaldi recommends Half of U.S. Smartphone Users Download Zero Apps Per Month — Thirteen percent of smartphone owners account for more than 50 percent of all app downloads. Dan Frommer Holly Schinsky recommends Driving App Engagement With Personalization Techniques — How to improve your mobile app engagement by segmenting and personalizing your users’ journey. Polly Alluf Chris Brandrick recommends How To Design Error States For Mobile Apps and Sites — How designs can be optimized to prevent user errors and how to create effective error messages in cases when errors occur independently of user input. Nick Babich Holly Schinsky recommends Building a Phonegap App With Laravel and Angular - Part 1 — The first post in a series on how to build a PhoneGap app with a REST API, authentication, authorization and real-time notifications. Matthew Daly Chris Brandrick recommends Progressive Web Apps Simply Make Sense — A simple case for Progressive Web Apps using a series of statements “that I believe even native app developers would agree with”. Jason Grigsby Holly Schinsky recommends Shoutem Open Source UI Toolkit for React Native — A new UI toolkit including customizable components, themes and animations. Shoutem UI Brian Rinaldi recommends Lory: Touch-Enabled, Minimalistic Slider Written in Vanilla JS Maximilian Heinz Brian Rinaldi recommends Reframe.js: Make Unresponsive Elements Responsive — Removes an element’s height/width attributes and wraps it in a responsive DIV. Dollar Shave Club Holly Schinsky recommends PhoneGap Push — Simon’s slides from NCDevCon with tips on using push notifications in your PhoneGap/Cordova apps. Simon MacDonald Brian Rinaldi recommends Announcing NativeScript 2.3 — Includes iOS 10 and XCode8 support as well as Angular 2 final support. NativeScript.org Holly Schinsky recommends Mobile Form Usability — Specific tips on how to increase the usability of forms in your mobile apps. Nick Babich Holly Schinsky recommends How To Build Ionic 2 Tinder Cards Using Angular 2 Swing — How to add a tinder-style swipeable cards feature to your Ionic 2 apps with Angular 2 Swing. Simon Reimler Brian Rinaldi recommends Native Infinite Scrolling with the IntersectionObserver API — Observing the visibility of DOM elements using the IntersectionObserver API (supported on Chrome and Opera) to create an infinite scrolling list. Giulio Mainardi Brian Rinaldi recommends The 'Secret Browser' Inside iOS 10 — iOS 10 enables apps within iMessage which apparently run within an embedded web view. David McIntosh Peter Cooper recommends Google: 53% of Mobile Users Abandon Sites That Take Longer Than 3 Seconds to Load Tammy Everts Sponsored Try GoNative.io to convert existing web to native Android & iOS — GoNative is a better approach to hybrid app development, using your existing web application with no changes required. 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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