Mobile Web Weekly April 13, 2016   #103
Peter Cooper recommends
10 Steps to Better Hybrid Apps — With hybrid apps rising in popularity, a growing number of tools are being created to help developers create cross-platform apps efficiently.
Oliver Lindberg
Brian Rinaldi recommends
AMP by Example — A hands-on introduction to Accelerated Mobile Pages with code and examples.
Sebastian Benz
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Are Progressive Web Apps the Future? — The Telerik Developer Relations team debates the viability of progressive web apps.
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Holly Schinsky recommends
EventListenerOptions: An Extension to The DOM Event Pattern to Achieve Better Scroll Performance — Passive event listeners are a new feature in the DOM spec to offer better scroll performance by allowing listeners to disable preventDefault.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
Facebook Says Users Show Preference For Instant Articles Over Mobile Web Articles — Facebook claims mobile users are opening and sharing Instant Articles more frequently than mobile Web articles.
Jack Marshall
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Responsive 'images-x' Mess On Desktop — PPK discusses differences between how various browsers handle zooming on responsive images.
QuirksMode
Brian Rinaldi recommends
The Web App 'Discovery Problem' — Remy doesn’t think discoverability is a real issue with progressive web apps because of the simplicity of the URL.
Remy Sharp
Holly Schinsky recommends
You Can Now Link Your BitBucket and GitLab Account to PhoneGap Build — It’s now possible to link your PhoneGap Build account to an existing BitBucket or GitLab account.
Brett Rudd
Chris Brandrick recommends
React Native: Building Your First iOS App With JavaScript — Part one of a series on building an iOS app with React Native.
Nash Vail
Holly Schinsky recommends
Boosting Scroll Performance in Ionic 2 — Understanding and using virtual scrolling in your Ionic 2 apps.
Josh Morony
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Send Emails In A NativeScript App via the Rackspace Mailgun API — How to send emails within NativeScript apps without using installed applications with the Rackspace Mailgun API.
Nic Raboy
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Why You Should Consider React Native For Your Mobile App — Clayton Anderson explains why you should consider using React Native, by providing an overview of the framework and its best features.
Clayton Anderson
Holly Schinsky recommends
How to Validate Your Mobile App Idea and Make People Love It — This article will lead you through the basic steps of validating your mobile app idea.
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Holly Schinsky recommends
Introducing the Cordova SQLite Plugin 2 — A rewrite of the Cordova SQLite Plugin; now faster and better-tested.
Nolan Lawson
Holly Schinsky recommends
The Web Cryptography API — Tim Taubert explores how we can keep secrets with JavaScript using the WebCrypto API.
Oliver Lindberg
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Image Recognition with The Google Vision API and Ionic — Wern Ancheta uses the Ionic framework and the Google Vision API to create an image recognition app.
Wern Ancheta