Mobile Dev Weekly Issue 121: August 17, 2016

August 17, 2016 #121

Chris Brandrick recommends

Smooth as Butter: Achieving 60 FPS Animations with CSS3 on Mobile — Tips for getting the most out of your Web animations performance-wise.
José Rosário

Holly Schinsky recommends

Web-native Mobile App Frameworks: How to Sort Through The Choices — A review of mobile app development solutions, what they have to offer, and the current state of tooling to help you choose what to use for your next app.
Maximiliano Firtman

Brian Rinaldi recommends

A Beginner's Guide To Progressive Web Apps — What is a progressive web app, why should you build one, and how to build your first one.
Kevin Farrugia

Chris Brandrick recommends

A Glimpse Into The Future With React Native For Web — React went from the Web to native with React Native, but now we have React Native for Web which brings React Native’s predictable components to the Web.
Clayton Anderson

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Peter Cooper recommends

Offline Storage for Progressive Web Apps — “2016 will hopefully be the year we build for network resilience.”
Addy Osmani

Chris Brandrick recommends

Designing for "Weird Browsers" — A well-produced, illustration slidedeck packed with thoughts on designing Web experiences for “weird browsers”, such as those found on game consoles, fridges, smartwatches, and TVs.
Niels Leenheer

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Survey: Android’s Lead is Consolidated — Android has caught up with iOS in developers’ preference in North America and Western Europe and has a lead in the rest of the world according to the latest survey from VisionMobile.
InfoQ

Holly Schinsky recommends

Upload Pictures to Firebase Storage From Ionic Framework Camera — Learn how to use the Cordova Camera Plugin with Ionic Native to take photos in your Ionic 2 app and upload them to Firebase Storage.
Jorge Vergara

Brian Rinaldi recommends

React Native at Artsy — Artsy dove into React Native six months ago for their app and this post looks at the pros, cons and lessons learned.
Artsy Engineering

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Using Android Background Services in NativeScript — A look at how Android Background Services behave in a NativeScript application, and guidelines for writing your own implementations.
Peter Kanev

Holly Schinsky recommends

Why Ionic is Ideal for the Enterprise — How Ionic has proven to be a great fit for enterprise apps by enabling high performance and familiar UI across multiple platforms.
Todd Halfpenny

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Designing Responsive Progressive Web Apps — Because PWAs blur the line between the web and app, the question is, “What do users expect from these new apps?”
Jason Grigsby

Holly Schinsky recommends

Communicating with Bluetooth Low Energy Devices in Cordova — Wern Ancheta shows how to to communicate with bluetooth low energy devices in a Cordova-based app.
Sitepoint

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Progressive Web Apps Running As Native OS X Apps — The PWAify project provides a solution for PWAs on desktop.
Vlad Filippov

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Create High Quality Mobile Apps with Ionic & Visual Studio — Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) introduced a new set of Ionic 2 templates and an update to an existing template.
The Visual Studio Blog