Mobile Dev Weekly Issue 110: June 1, 2016

June 1, 2016 #110

Brian Rinaldi recommends

State of The Mobile Gap Between Native and Web — What is the current state of the gap between the the mobile web and native apps? Remy gives his take.
Remy Sharp

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Smart Responsive Design Patterns, Or When Off-Canvas Isn't Good Enough — This article features some of the slightly more obscure design patterns, such as responsive car-builder interfaces, mega dropdown navigation, content grids and charts, as well as responsive art direction.
Vitaly Friedman

Holly Schinsky recommends

Sticky Footer, Five Ways — Five different ways to create a sticky footer in your app to ensure it “sticks” to the bottom of the browser window.
Chris Coyier

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Peter Cooper recommends

Progressive Web App Dev Summit 2016 — The summit (in Amsterdam later this month) will be two days of talks, codelabs and access to the Chrome engineers to discuss the future of the web.
Google

Chris Brandrick recommends

Mobile Ad Blocking Rose 90% Last Year, Report Says — The number of smartphone owners using ad blocking software has risen by 90 percent over the past year, according to a new report, reaching nearly 420 million people worldwide.
Amar Toor

Holly Schinsky recommends

Another Tool to Make Mobile Web Debugging Easier — Eruda is a new DevTools like console for mobile browsers to help debug your apps directly on your device.
Surunzi

Chris Brandrick recommends

Google to Boost Mobile Web Speed on Apple Devices — Readers who search for news on Google’s iOS app will now get select articles faster (thanks to AMP).
Jonathan Vanian

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Installing Ionic to Build Hybrid HTML5 Apps
Mark Brown

Holly Schinsky recommends

Building a Cross Platform, Salesforce Powered, Contact List App — A sample contact list app tutorial that authenticates with Salesforce.com via OAuth, performs a SOQL query and populates a list with contacts from the SFDC cases.
Chad Tetreault

Holly Schinsky recommends

Web Developers Looking to Get Into The Mobile Space? — An hour long talk on Ionic and the evolution of a hybrid framework.
Sani Yusef

Chris Brandrick recommends

Mobile UX Design: The Right Ways to Ask Users for Permissions — Permission strategy depends on the clarity and importance of the permission type you are requesting.
Nick Babich

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Converting Your Ionic 2 Mobile App to NativeScript — Both frameworks use Angular 2 and TypeScript, so Nic explores how easily you can make the move.
Nic Raboy

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Rise of Ad-Blocking Software Threatens Online Revenue — 1 in 5 smartphone users block ads when browsing the web on phones.
NY Times

Holly Schinsky recommends

Elixel attends: PhoneGap Day EU 2016 — A recap of PhoneGap Day EU 2016 from Christian Cook of Elixel.
Elixel

Holly Schinsky recommends

How to Renew All Your Project's Cordova Plugins At Once — Updating your Cordova app project to get the latest platform specific support is a periodic task that could be made easier by following this tip.
EeKay's Blog

Holly Schinsky recommends

ConfiGAP 2.0a Released — A new version of ConfiGAP was recently released to help you configure your mobile apps with PhoneGap Build.
Chris Griffith

Brian Rinaldi recommends

NativeScript Android Application Package Size Revealed — A look at the architecture behind the NativeScript Android runtime and how it impacts the package size.
Georgi Atanasov