Mobile Web Weekly May 18, 2016   #108
Peter Cooper recommends
'Our Best Practices Are Killing Mobile Web Performance' — 'Web performance rules invented for desktop web access need to be revised for the mobile era,' says Mathias Schäfer.
Mathias Schäfer
Holly Schinsky recommends
65 Web and Mobile App Analytics Tools — Handy lists of analytics tools for mobile sites and apps.
Autosend
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Mobile-First News: How People Use Smartphones to Access Information — This report from a study by Nielsen is focused on news consumption, but has interesting insights into general browsing habits, including differences in app versus web browsing.
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Peter Cooper recommends
The Mobile Web: State of the Union (at Google I/O) — A session that’s going to be livestreamed tomorrow (May 19) at 2pm Pacific.
Google I/O
Peter Cooper recommends
RespImageLint: A Linter for Responsive Images
Martin Auswöger
Peter Cooper recommends
What Are The Most Important Factors For Mobile Shoppers? — Mobile accounted for roughly 1 in every 6 retail dollars spent online during Q4 2015, per a recent report from comScore.
MarketingCharts
Peter Cooper recommends
Firefox for iOS Makes it Faster and Easier to Use the Mobile Web — A new update to Firefox for iOS.
The Mozilla Blog
Holly Schinsky recommends
Creating Hybrid Applications With Monaca and ES6 — How to create hybrid mobile apps with Monaca, ES6 and Gulp.
Onsen UI
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Build A Simple Mobile App With NativeScript And Angular 2 — How to build a todo app using NativeScript for Android and iOS using the Angular 2 framework and TypeScript.
Nic Raboy
Holly Schinsky recommends
How to Use the Cordova Geolocation API in an Ionic App — Learn how to use Appery.io to build an Ionic app that uses the Geolocation API in this short video.
Max Katz - YouTube
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Pre-Touch Sensing for Mobile Interaction (Video) — Not specifically mobile web, but some interesting research into sensing a user’s grip and “pre-touch” on mobile devices to adapt interfaces on the fly.
YouTube
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Making sense of the mobile development ecosystem — Part 3 — Part 3 of a series on the mobile development ecosystem covers native, JavaScript native and cross-compiled apps
Brian Rinaldi
Holly Schinsky recommends
What Percent of App Downloads Become Engaged Users? — Learn how to create a strong onboarding process within your apps to ensure your downloads are translating into engaged users.
Test Nest
Holly Schinsky recommends
Try Augmented Reality with the PhoneGap Developer App — The PhoneGap Developer App now includes the Wikitude Cordova plugin to allow users to easily test their augmented reality projects.
PhoneGap Blog
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Thoughts on NativeScript 2.0 — Ray shares his initial impressions after learning NativeScript via the getting started guide.
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Holly Schinsky recommends
Latest News in Onsen UI Environment — Latest news in Onsen UI includes their 2.0 RC React Components, a new interactive tutorial, community forum and more.
Onsen UI
Holly Schinsky recommends
Using Ionic 2 SqlStorage For a Simple Evernote Clone — How to use Ionic 2 with SqlStorage to build a simple Evernote Light app.
Devdactic
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Getting Started With Ionic: Navigation — This part in the tutorial series covers adding the side menu and tabs components into the app.
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