Mobile Web Weekly May 4, 2016   #106
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Making Sense of The Mobile Development Ecosystem — The first in a series of posts on deciding which mobile development technology would work best for your project; first, focusing on the mobile web.
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Ionic Framework: A Definitive 10,000 Word Guide — A comprehensive guide to creating a hybrid app with Ionic from development to publishing in the app store. Useful info for all hybrid developers.
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Creating Cross-Platform Apps with Angular 2 [video] — A 20 minute talk from Brad Green of the Angular team.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
Twitter for Mobile Gets React Powered Overhaul — Twitter gets a new React-powered experience for its mobile Web site.
David Bellona
Brian Rinaldi recommends
An Interesting Change to Browsing On Android — Search results from the Google Android app now open in a Chrome custom tab. Peter Gasston says this may have an impact on mobile browsing habits.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
Spotify Removes The Hamburger Button on iOS — Nav bars are in, hamburgers are out.
Jacob Kastrenakes
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Bots Won't Replace Apps. Better Apps Will Replace Apps. — Why conversational UI fails in practice and what the West can really learn from Asian messaging apps.
Dan Grover
Holly Schinsky recommends
A Baseline for Hybrid Mobile Developers — Ray Camden discusses the base set of skills required for developers wanting to pursue hybrid mobile app development.
The Official Ionic Blog
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Making IFrames Responsive — Because the page does not have access to the content within the iFrame, this workaround uses the postMessage API to communicate.
Ire Aderinokun
Holly Schinsky recommends
Onsen UI 2 - Next-Gen Hybrid Mobile App UI Framework now with React Components — Onsen UI Mobile App Framework releases v2 and includes React Components as well as support for both iOS and Android via Material and Flat design.
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Holly Schinsky recommends
Integrating Firebase with AngularFire2 & Ionic 2 — A 2 part series on building an app that can authenticate, create accounts and more using Firebase with AngularFire2 and Ionic 2.
Clearly Innovative
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Creating An Ionic Theme for NativeScript — Rob Lauer shares his theme for creating native mobile apps using NativeScript that have the visual appeal that the Ionic framework is known for.
Telerik Developer Network
Brian Rinaldi recommends
My Experience Developing with Telerik NativeScript — Nic Raboy shares his opinions of Telerik NativeScript and experiences using it to build native mobile apps with JavaScript.
The Polyglot Developer
Holly Schinsky recommends
A Sample App using Phonegap/Cordova Plugins with ReactNative — Sample kitchen sink app showing the use of Cordova plugins with ReactNative.
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
Ionic Raises $8.5m — Ionic (formerly Drifty), the company behind the hybrid mobile framework of the same name, announced a major round of funding.
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