This Week in Mobile Web Development (#142)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly January 25, 2017   #142 Holly Schinsky recommends Offline-First Web and Mobile Apps: Top Frameworks and Components — Implementing offline-first apps can be challenging, but these tools can help make the developer’s job easier. Bradley Holt Chris Brandrick recommends Making Responsive HTML Email Coding Easy With MJML — This step-by-step tutorial covers how to create a responsive email using open-source framework MJML. Nicolas Garnier Sponsored Level up from Hybrid — Upgrade to JavaScript Native and native controls. Build truly native mobile apps w/ Angular or JavaScript. Free and Open Source. NativeScript Brian Rinaldi recommends Best Practices for Long Scrolling — A few best practices to follow to make sure that long scrolling sites meet user expectations. Nick Babich Holly Schinsky recommends Google’s Progressive Web Apps Turn Mobile Sites Into Android Apps — Chrome’s new Progressive Web Apps bridge the gap between a mobile site and a dedicated app, and they’ve just gone live on Android. Adam Ismail Holly Schinsky recommends Is App Indexing For Google Worth The Effort? — A case study showing how implementing app indexing for Google search affected the traffic to one company’s app. Bryson Meunier Brian Rinaldi recommends Google AMP Carousels Are Multiplying — There are a growing number of single-source AMP carousels in Google search results for AMP-enabled publishers. Barb Palser Chris Brandrick recommends Protecting Hybrid Mobile Apps with Ionic and Jscrambler — How to integrate Jscrambler’s JavaScript code protection into an Ionic app’s build process. Jscrambler Brian Rinaldi recommends Adding Unit Tests to Your NativeScript App — A look at unit test framework support in NativeScript and how to get started adding unit tests. Rob Lauer Holly Schinsky recommends Creating a Music Player Interface in Ionic 2 — How to build a visually pleasing custom music player interface with Ionic 2. Josh Morony Brian Rinaldi recommends Working with IonicDB — IonicDB is a simple data storage system, like Parse, for mobile applications (though not specifically limited to them). Raymond Camden Holly Schinsky recommends Write Once Use Everywhere with React Native — React is advertised as ‘learn once write anywhere’. This post shows how to create a react native app that can run on the web in a ‘write once use everywhere’ fashion. Amogh Banta Holly Schinsky recommends React at 60 FPS — Techniques for optimizing your apps built with React. Particularly important on mobile. Andrey Okonetchnikov Holly Schinsky recommends 5 Reasons Why I Chose React Native Over Traditional App Development — Why one developer chose React Native over other alternatives for building his mobile app. Pav Sidhu Chris Brandrick recommends Ready for Realtime and Scale: Announcing Realm Mobile Platform 1.0 — The Realm Mobile Platform (version 1.0) is now generally available and ready for production use. Realm Chris Brandrick recommends Thoughts After Designing and Prototyping a Native App in HTML L Daniel Swakman Brian Rinaldi recommends Crater Conf Mobile 2016 — All the talks from the 2016 conference including topics such as mobile web dev, Cordova, React Native and NativeScript. Josh Owens Holly Schinsky recommends A Challenger for Ionic: Aurelia Framework7 — How Aurelia and Framework7 can be used together to provide a great developer experience for building hybrid apps. Alexander Flenniken Chris Brandrick recommends Ionic 2.0.0-rC.6 released Brandy Carney Curated by Brian Rinaldi and Holly Schinsky for Cooperpress. Cooperpress 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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