Mobile Dev Weekly Issue 125: September 14, 2016

September 14, 2016 #125

Holly Schinsky recommends

What Progressive Web Apps Are Really All About — Many think that Progressive Web Apps are all about speed and performance, but maybe it’s just about the apps.
Dan Rowinski

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Android Pay Is Coming to The Mobile Web 'Soon', Available First On Chrome — Android’s mobile payment system will work on the mobile web “soon” according to Google, though no specifics are given.
James Vincent

Chris Brandrick recommends

Is Now A Good Time to Start Using Web Bluetooth? (Hint: Yes, Yes It Is) — Into IoT and the Web? If you like playing with cutting edge, user-facing tech, you should check out Web Bluetooth.
Uri Shaked

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Brian Rinaldi recommends

The 2016 U.S. Mobile App Report — According to Comscore, “mobile audience growth is being driven more by mobile web properties, which are actually bigger and growing faster than apps.”
comScore, Inc

Holly Schinsky recommends

Introducing iOS Web Debugging for VS Code on Windows and Mac — Mobile web developers can now debug JavaScript running on their iOS devices directly from Visual Studio Code.
Microsoft

Holly Schinsky recommends

Do We Need Better Prototyping or Simpler Coding? — “No points for guessing. It’s the second one.”
Daniel Hollick

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Simple CSS Media Queries — A huge, searchable list of device-specific breakpoints.
Michael Gannon

Holly Schinsky recommends

Announcing PWA Support in Ionic 2 — “One of our goals with Ionic 2 is to make PWAs a first-class citizen right out of the box” — the first iteration of that is now available when you create a new Ionic 2 app.
Ionic

Holly Schinsky recommends

Integrating Native Google Maps into an Ionic 2 Application
Josh Morony

Holly Schinsky recommends

Fixing 'Browser Has Stopped' Errors in the Android Simulator
Raymond Camden

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Use amp-img and amp-video to Speed Up Your Site
Kezz Bracey

Holly Schinsky recommends

Mobile Commerce Wars: Apps Versus Mobile Web — The explosive growth in mobile and how it’s disrupting industries and impacting brands.
VentureBeat

Brian Rinaldi recommends

React Native Elements UI Toolkit — A set of cross-platform UI elements for React Native apps.
React Native Community

Holly Schinsky recommends

Content Security Policy, Your Future Best Friend — Why Content Security Policy (CSP) is important and what you need to be aware of when configuring it.
Nicolas Hoffmann

Holly Schinsky recommends

Building a Mobile App with Cordova and Vue.js — Learn how to build a random word generator using Cordova and Vue.js.
coligo

Holly Schinsky recommends

Come See Us At These Upcoming PhoneGap Events — A list of upcoming events the PhoneGap team will be presenting at in the near future.
PhoneGap Blog

Holly Schinsky recommends

Basic Patterns for Mobile Navigation — A comparison of three basic navigation patterns for mobile apps; hamburger menu, tab bar and gesture-based navigation.
Nick Babich

Chris Brandrick recommends

What, Exactly, Makes Something A Progressive Web App? — “A PWA is functionally defined by the technical properties that allow the browser to detect that the site meets certain criteria and is worthy of being added to the homescreen.”
Alex Russell

Holly Schinsky recommends

How Google And Others Are Plotting The Revenge of the Web App — Evolving technology and app store frustrations could give the once-overhyped web app another shot at relevance.
Jared Newman

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Building Resizeable Components with Relative CSS Units — A ton of examples for taking relative units beyond just font sizing.
Ahmad Shadeed

Holly Schinsky recommends

Developing for Android vs. iOS: Material vs. Flat Design — The first post in a series on Material vs Flat Design, focused on the high-level design differences between Android and iOS.
Jordan Réjaud