Mobile Dev Weekly Issue 168: July 26, 2017

July 26, 2017 #168

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Enhancing CSS Layout: From Floats To Flexbox To Grid — Manuel Matuzović thinks Grid is “one of the most exciting developments since responsive design” adding that we should “get the best out of it as soon as possible”.
Smashing Magazine

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Can Cordova Fit Your Target Industry? — Looks at what types of apps the author believes are good candidates for Cordova development.
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Holly Schinsky recommends

We Now Have A Community-Approved Progressive Web Apps Logo — Maxim Salnikov initiated a call for a “community-approved” PWA logo last month. Now we have one.
Peter O'Shaughnessy

Holly Schinsky recommends

Progressive Web Apps Are A Toolkit, Not A Recipe — Many think of the term ‘Progressive Web App’ as a recipe of features that must be combined together but devs shouldn’t be looking at it as an all or nothing approach.
Peter O'Shaughnessy

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Using Viewport Units to Scale Fixed Layouts — Sebastian Eberlein explores ‘edge cases’ where scaling a fixed layout with viewport units can be a viable solution.
Hacker Noon

Holly Schinsky recommends

Ionic Dev Survey Says: There’s No Better Time to Be A Web Developer — The results from the first-ever Ionic Developer Survey, with input from more than 13,000 community members who shared what tools and technology they use, and what types of apps they’re building.
Ionic

Chris Brandrick recommends

Optimizing Performance of A-Frame Scenes for Mobile Devices — Using benchmarking to figure out the level of 3D complexity a mobile phone is capable of, and determining which performance metrics are required for such a benchmark.
Mozilla Hacks

Brian Rinaldi recommends

User Agent Parsing: How It Works and How It Can Be Used — An in-depth look at user agent parsing, the pros and cons, and is it useful for device detection.
Martin Clancy

Holly Schinsky recommends

A Beginner's Guide to HTML5 Cross-Browser Polyfills — Oliver Williams shows how polyfills let you write modern code that will work everywhere.
SitePoint

Peter Cooper recommends

Implementing AMP Forms from Start to Finish with amp-form — How to implement forms in AMP using practical examples such as submitting a search on a blog and collecting newsletter subscribers.
Paul Shapiro

Brian Rinaldi recommends

How to Use AMP with WordPress — Have you used Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages to display your content to mobile audiences? Here’s some pointers on using AMP with WordPress.
SitePoint

Brian Rinaldi recommends

How To Implement In-App Ratings For iOS Ionic Apps
Ashteya Biharisingh

Holly Schinsky recommends

How to Get Started with Ionic Framework 3 on Mac and Windows — The first post in a series covering building hybrid apps for both iOS and Android with Ionic Framework 3.
Nikola Brežnjak

Holly Schinsky recommends

A Progressive Web Application with Vue.js, Webpack + Material Design — The third part in a series that aims to build a basic but complete Progressive Web Application with VueJs, Webpack and Material Design.
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