Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Working with the Facebook API in a Cordova App

In this tutorial we’ll be creating a Cordova app that connects to the Facebook API using the official Facebook plugin for Cordova. We’ll cover how to login and logout of Facebook, use dialogs, and make calls to the Graph API. Note that this tutorial isn’t for beginners, I will assume that you have already setup your machine to work with Cordova and deploy to an Android device.

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Holly Schinsky recommends
Using the Battery Status API to Optimize Your Development — The Battery API has become more widely supported on mobile browsers. Find out why and how you may want to use it in your upcoming app development.
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Peter Cooper recommends
A Sneak Peek at Chrome DevTools Device Mode V2 — Chrome DevTools’s ‘Device Mode’ will let you emulate a variety of mobile devices in the normal desktop browser making mobile Web development easier.
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Frameworks — Ethan Marcotte on thinking about layout in responsive design outside of the confines of columns and grids.
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Hate Fixing Bugs? Lucky You. We Love It. — Tackling technical debt and integrating disparate systems is fun, too. (Yes, really.)
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
antimoderate — This library can help reduce the initial page weight on your site by rendering blurred micro images on the page while loading full size images in background.
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Holly Schinsky recommends
What's new for PhoneGap Day US 2016 — Check out the latest on PhoneGap Day US, including the just announced workshop schedule, details of the location and FREE ski day included in the registration.
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Holly Schinsky recommends
Intro to Framework7 — An introduction and overview of Framework7, an HTML/JS library for developing hybrid apps on iOS and Android.
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Peter Cooper recommends
How to Get Started with Ionic Framework On Mac and Windows
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Top Ten Mistakes While Implementing Responsive Web Design — Responsive web design is evolving every day but not every business is able to implement it the right way. It’s important to know that responsive design is a process of continual improvement.
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Holly Schinsky recommends
Creating a Calculator App with Ionic — In-depth tutorial on how to create a calculator hybrid app with Ionic.
Pluralsight Tutorials
Brian Rinaldi recommends
How to tell if a Cordova application is running in the simulator — An update to the device plugin now provides an isVirtual property that can signify if the app is running in the simulator.
Raymond Camden
Brian Rinaldi recommends
A Guide To Simple And Painless Mobile User Testing — The software and setup for performing user tests on mobile devices.
Smashing Magazine
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A New Responsive Font Format for the Web?
Robin Rendle
Holly Schinsky recommends
Designing Healthcare Apps With Delight — Health-focused apps are on the rise, check out this guide to best practices for designing consumer-facing healthcare apps.
Smashing Magazine
Holly Schinsky recommends
Important update for Apache Cordova and Android — If you’re using the Android emulator with Apache Cordova you should check out the recent updates noted in this post.
Raymond Camden's Blog
Holly Schinsky recommends
cordova-plugin-3dtouch: Add quick home icon actions and link previews — A new Cordova plugin is available for adding quick icon actions and link previews to your hybrid apps (includes demo).
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Issue 217 — December 2, 2015
Adobe’s take on Web standards and the diminished role of Flash. Flash Professional CC has now been renamed to Animate CC and will focus on HTML5-driven Web animation creation.


Thomas Park
If you’ve felt learning about the Flexible Box layout mode was a bit dry, you might enjoy this interactive alternative to the specs.


Ilya Grigorik
With font-display you can choose how/if web fonts are displayed when the page is being rendered and while they are being loaded.


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A look at how HTML parsers interpret HTML and build DOM trees from it. Sometimes the order of elements is important due to changes in ‘scope’.


Ilya Kreymer
You can surf the Web like it’s 1999 with this interesting tool that brings together old browsers and the Wayback Machine. It’s slow due to all the interest but it works.


An interactive overview of mobile device integration APIs available on the web (and your current browser), where they work and how to use them.


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Chrome DevTools’s ‘Device Mode’ will let you emulate a variety of mobile devices in the normal desktop browser making mobile Web development easier.


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