Mobile Dev Weekly Issue 120: August 10, 2016

August 10, 2016 #120

Holly Schinsky recommends

10 Really Useful Responsive Web Design Tutorials — Ensure your site has an optimal viewing experience across platforms with these helpful responsive design tutorials.
Tanya Combrinck

Brian Rinaldi recommends

How Progressive Web Apps Promise to Upend Native Mobile Apps — An overview of Progressive Web Apps and claims that they are helping large companies move back towards the web over native.
Matt Asay

Peter Cooper recommends

Chrome 53 Beta: Now with Shadow DOM (and PaymentRequest) — Chrome 53 is the latest beta channel release and it supports the Shadow DOM spec and, on Android, the PaymentRequest API for seamless payment functionality.
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Brian Rinaldi recommends

The Death of The Natives? A Progressive Shift for Apps, Web and Marketers — A very pro-Progressive Web App take on web vs. native from a digital marketing perspective (with some interesting statistics).
Tom Peters

Holly Schinsky recommends

Using the Web Animations API in Ionic 2 — Learn how to use the Web Animations API to animate your hybrid apps built with Ionic 2.
Josh Morony

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Getting to Know Cutestrap, a Lightweight CSS Framework — Cutestrap is a new Sass-based, CSS framework that aims to sit somewhere between normalize.css and a full-blown framework like Bootstrap.
Maria Antonietta Perna

Holly Schinsky recommends

11 Tips for Ergonomic Mobile Interfaces — Tips for creating mobile and tablet designs that are comfortable to use.
Neil Turner

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Principles of Mobile Site Design — Some design tips for making sure your site works well on mobile devices.
Nick Babich

Peter Cooper recommends

How to Write Cordova Plugins — Cordova Plugins are one of the dark arts of hybrid app development, helping web apps running natively access the full power of mobile devices.
Max Lynch

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Create Your First NativeScript App — A walkthrough for building a note taking application for iOS and Android using NativeScript (sans Angular 2).
Wernher-Bel Ancheta

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Bullish on AMP — Thoughts on implementing Google’s AMP and its implications, from Paul Ford, co-founder of Postlight.
Paul Ford

Holly Schinsky recommends

Writing an Ionic 2 Application for Production — Pivotal Engineers share their experiences after building a hybrid app using Ionic 2 and offer insights for determining the best mobile development approach for your needs.
Pivotal Engineering Journal

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Tabris.js 1.9 Is Here — The latest version of the framework includes imageData support, new lifecycle events and enhancements to WebView handling.
Gosia Mitros

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Experiment Time: Scroll Anchoring — Scroll anchoring stops a web page from moving once you’ve started reading the content.
Matt Gaunt