#169: How to Detect If Your Native App Is Installed From Your Site

Mobile Web Weekly August 2, 2017   #169 Brian Rinaldi recommends Apple’s Refusal to Support Progressive Web Apps Is A Detriment to Future of The Web — The author argues that Apple’s stance to PWAs (or lack of) means developers “can’t just hop on the PWA train and forget about native apps completely”. Greg Blass Brian Rinaldi recommends W3C's Concerns Over Distributed and Syndicated Content — The W3C Technical Architecture Group shares a report over its concerns about strategies like AMP, Instant Articles and Apple News. W3C 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 Holly Schinsky recommends How to Detect If Your Native App Is Installed From Your Site — Chrome 59 introduced a new API allows you to determine if your native app is installed on a device. Paul Kinlan Peter Cooper recommends Tabris.js 2.0 Released: Develop Native iOS and Android Apps in JS — 2.0 gets a more flexible UI framework, JSX support for declaratively defining UIs, and Windows 10 support (mobile and desktop). EclipseSource Peter Cooper recommends Updates to Media Playback in Chrome 61 — On Android, when a video is playing, rotating the device will automatically put it fullscreen. Google Developers Brian Rinaldi recommends Going Mobile: Wrapping An Existing Webapp in Cordova/PhoneGap — Some tips on how to approach wrapping an existing web app as a native mobile app with PhoneGap. Important to consider that in many cases this is not a recommended approach. Abou Kone Brian Rinaldi recommends Building A Better Web with Automated Testing on Real Devices — Ben Schwarz argues the case for making the web fast for everyone with automated web app testing on real devices. SitePoint Sponsored The Essential Guide to Queueing Theory — Queueing theory is one of the best ways to boost performance. This ebook demystifies the subject without requiring pages full of equations. VividCortex Chris Brandrick recommends Hybrid Mobile Apps are Overtaking Native — The hybrid “space has evolved significantly for the better”. Matt Netkow Holly Schinsky recommends Progressive Web Apps and the App Stores — Why one developer believes progressive web apps should be available in the app stores. Trond Kjetil Bremnes Holly Schinsky recommends 9 Mobile App Dev Trends To Watch — A look at the most predominant mobile app development trends for the rest of 2017. Paweł Ha Holly Schinsky recommends Top Ionic Resources for Learning Hybrid App Development — A curated list of useful resources for learning and using Ionic 3 for building hybrid apps. Gareth Dunne Brian Rinaldi recommends Determine Network Availability in a 'NativeScript with Angular' Mobile App — Learn how to check network connectivity, or in other terms, check for an internet connection in Android and iOS, using NativeScript and Angular. The Polyglot Developer Holly Schinsky recommends Looking Back at PhoneGap Day EU 2017 — A look back at PhoneGap Day EU in Amsterdam recently. Jen Gray Holly Schinsky recommends Optimized Ionic-Angular CSS Bundle for PWA — How to reduce the CSS bundle of your Ionic-Angular Progressive Web App by up to 91%. Julien Renaux

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