Mobile Web Weekly August 24, 2016   #122
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Android 7.0 Nougat Out Now — The rollout of Android version 7 is underway, with the OS now available on Nexus devices.
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React Native vs Ionic: A Side-by-Side Comparison — A comparison of Ionic vs React Native for building hybrid apps, highlighting the key points and conceptual differences for each.
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8 React-Native 'Starter Kits' for Mobile App Development — Popular React-Native starter kits and boilerplates to quickly start making high quality and efficient mobile applications for iOS and Android.
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Tutorial: Build a Note-Taking App in Swift Using a REST API — Authentication is usually the last thing you want to think about when rushing toward a product deadline. Follow this simple tutorial to set up a basic Swift app with user login, and get some technical discussion of iOS authentication along the way.
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Google Will Punish Sites That Use Annoying Ads — Google plans to lower the ranking of mobile sites with pop-ups or interstitials.
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How to Build Ionic 2 Drag and Drop Apps using Dragula — Simon shows how you can add drag and drop functionality to your Ionic apps using the ng2-dragula library.
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Diverse Test-Automation Frameworks for React Native Apps — What tools and techniques are available for testing React Native apps.
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Why I Use Visual Studio Code For Developing Ionic 2 Apps — Ashteya shares some of her favorite features in VS Code that she believes makes it ideal for hybrid app development.
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Creating A Pokémon Application using the Angular2 CLI — Learn how to use Angular 2 and the latest Angular 2 Components from Onsen UI in your hybrid mobile apps.
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Offline Storage for Progressive Web Apps — Ideas around offline data storage for progressive web apps.
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Tips for Creating a Truly Functional Mobile Experience — Tips to help design the most responsive and engaging mobile-friendly site.
Vincent Sevilla
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Google Dropping 'Mobile-Friendly' Label From Search Results — The label arrived in Google search results in November 2014 to signify a responsive/mobile site, now it’s being removed to declutter search results.
Barry Schwartz
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A Beginners Guide to Ionic 2 Mobile Applications — In this particular guide, we’re going to take a look at what Ionic 2 has to offer versus its predecessor and how to get started with the new and improved framework.
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How to Create Robust Hybrid Apps With Ionic — Neumob interviews Ionic Dev Advocate Alex Muramoto and gets a first hand look at how developers can use the Ionic Framework to create robust mobile apps.
Jay Hinman
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TJ VanToll
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Cut Your PhoneGap Build App Size In Half With This One Weird Trick — A tip on how to help you reduce the size of your hybrid mobile apps built with PhoneGap Build.
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Adobe Creative SDK Plugins for PhoneGap — Two new PhoneGap plugins are now available for the Adobe Creative SDK allowing you to add Client Auth and Image Editor components to your hybrid mobile apps.
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Announcing NativeScript 2.2 — The release includes new UI for NativeScript components, iOS10 Beta3 support and Webpack as the hot-reload mechanism.
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React Native QR Code Scanner
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