This Week in Mobile Web Development (#153)

Mobile Web Weekly April 12, 2017   #153 Holly Schinsky recommends Ionic 3.0 Released: The Native and PWA App Framework — Ionic jumps to 3.0 in an Angular 4-style semantic versioning switch, bringing lazy loading, and Angular 4 and TypeScript 2.1+ compatibility. The Official Ionic Blog Peter Cooper recommends How Twitter Built Twitter 'Lite' — A new progressive web app (PWA) available on mobile.twitter.com. Nicolas Gallagher explains the stack behind it. Twitter Engineering Chris Brandrick recommends Twitter Lite and High Performance React PWAs at Scale — A look into removing performance bottlenecks, both common and uncommon, in one of the largest React.js PWAs, the aforementioned Twitter Lite. Paul Armstrong Sponsored Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. — Get a Linode server up and running in seconds. Simply choose your plan, distro and location and you’re ready to deploy your server. Use promo code MOBILEWEB20 for a $20 credit on a new account. linode Brian Rinaldi recommends Could Accelerated Mobile Pages Be Bad News for News? — Some well reasoned arguments as to why AMP may be bad for the web and publishers, despite good intentions. Andrew Betts Brian Rinaldi recommends Combine AMP with Progressive Web Apps — A series of tutorials on how to enable PWA features in an AMP page, use an AMP page as an entry point into a PWA and use AMP as a data source for a PWA. AMP Project Holly Schinsky recommends Cordova Android 6.2.1 Released — A new version of Cordova Android has been released and fixes issues with the Android SDK Tools as well as other important updates. Apache Cordova Brian Rinaldi recommends The Importance of Mobile Web Performance in 2017 — A series of stats from a variety of sources related to web performance as well as AMP. Pawel Piejko Chris Brandrick recommends Adding iOS Dynamic Type Support to Web Views — A how-to on getting iOS’s ‘Dynamic Type’ accessibility feature to play nice with CSS in your app’s web views. Laura Kalbag Brian Rinaldi recommends No Share Buttons on Mobile Sites (Except This One Weird Case) — Josh Clark explains why you should not include social share buttons on mobile websites unless the user came from a social network. Big Medium Holly Schinsky recommends Building an Ionic Image Gallery With Zoom — How to add an image gallery with zoom capabilities to your Ionic apps. Simon Reimler Holly Schinsky recommends How to Create a PWA With Ionic That Scores 90+ on Google's Lighthouse Dennis Bruijn Holly Schinsky recommends Ionic and Firebase Authentication — Learn how to authenticate users in your Ionic 3 apps with Firebase. Aaron Czichon Peter Cooper recommends A Look at Ionic 3's New Lazy Loading Functionality Paul Halliday Holly Schinsky recommends Add Serverless Firebase Push Notifications to Your React Native App — Part 2 in building a Chat App with React Native, showing how to add serverless push notifications with Firebase. Shoutem Chris Brandrick recommends How To Set Up An Automated Testing System Using Android Phones — A case study written by Mail.Ru’s test engineer on how to build a flexible and extensible automated testing system for Android smartphones — from scratch. Alexey Perfilov Holly Schinsky recommends Debugging CSS for UI Responsiveness — CSS properties and values that trigger reflows are costly when it comes to page and UI responsiveness. Tiffany Brown Holly Schinsky recommends Automatic Icon Export for HTML, iOS, and Android — How to use Sketch to export your app assets in multiple resolutions and formats. William Candillon Holly Schinsky recommends PWA with Ionic Framework: Frequently Asked Questions — FAQ on building Progressive Web Apps with Ionic. Jorge Vergara Brian Rinaldi recommends Creating Your First Native Mobile App with Visual Studio — Part 2 in this series on building a native mobile app in Visual Studio with NativeScript focuses on creating the layout and connecting dummy data. Rob Lauer Holly Schinsky recommends phonegap-visuals-generator: Generate Visuals for PhoneGap — Icon and Splash Screens generator for Cordova/PhoneGap apps. Adrian Voica

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