Mobile Web Weekly September 21, 2016   #126
Brian Rinaldi recommends
From WordPress to Apple News, Instant Articles, and AMP — Chris Coyier (of CSS Tricks) looks at ways to republish a WordPress blog to Apple News, Facebook’s Instant Articles and AMP.
Chris Coyier
Chris Brandrick recommends
The Thumb Zone: Designing For Mobile Users — What “thumb zone” actually means and why it’s such an important factor in the design and development of mobile interfaces today.
Samantha Ingram
Peter Cooper recommends
Google Results Are Now Officially 'AMP’d' — “Now when you search on your mobile device, you’ll see a label that indicates a page is AMP’d.” AMP is the Accelerated Mobile Pages project initially started at Google.
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Peter Cooper recommends
Onsen UI 2 Released: A Hybrid Mobile App Framework and Toolset — Onsen has become a popular way to develop hybrid and mobile web apps, especially as it lets you be agnostic and use Angular, Vue, React, and even Meteor.
Onsen UI
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Half of U.S. Smartphone Users Download Zero Apps Per Month — Thirteen percent of smartphone owners account for more than 50 percent of all app downloads.
Dan Frommer
Holly Schinsky recommends
Driving App Engagement With Personalization Techniques — How to improve your mobile app engagement by segmenting and personalizing your users’ journey.
Polly Alluf
Chris Brandrick recommends
How To Design Error States For Mobile Apps and Sites — How designs can be optimized to prevent user errors and how to create effective error messages in cases when errors occur independently of user input.
Nick Babich
Holly Schinsky recommends
Building a Phonegap App With Laravel and Angular - Part 1 — The first post in a series on how to build a PhoneGap app with a REST API, authentication, authorization and real-time notifications.
Matthew Daly
Chris Brandrick recommends
Progressive Web Apps Simply Make Sense — A simple case for Progressive Web Apps using a series of statements “that I believe even native app developers would agree with”.
Jason Grigsby
Holly Schinsky recommends
Shoutem Open Source UI Toolkit for React Native — A new UI toolkit including customizable components, themes and animations.
Shoutem UI
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Lory: Touch-Enabled, Minimalistic Slider Written in Vanilla JS
Maximilian Heinz
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Reframe.js: Make Unresponsive Elements Responsive — Removes an element’s height/width attributes and wraps it in a responsive DIV.
Dollar Shave Club
Holly Schinsky recommends
PhoneGap Push — Simon’s slides from NCDevCon with tips on using push notifications in your PhoneGap/Cordova apps.
Simon MacDonald
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Announcing NativeScript 2.3 — Includes iOS 10 and XCode8 support as well as Angular 2 final support.
NativeScript.org
Holly Schinsky recommends
Mobile Form Usability — Specific tips on how to increase the usability of forms in your mobile apps.
Nick Babich
Holly Schinsky recommends
How To Build Ionic 2 Tinder Cards Using Angular 2 Swing — How to add a tinder-style swipeable cards feature to your Ionic 2 apps with Angular 2 Swing.
Simon Reimler
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Native Infinite Scrolling with the IntersectionObserver API — Observing the visibility of DOM elements using the IntersectionObserver API (supported on Chrome and Opera) to create an infinite scrolling list.
Giulio Mainardi
Brian Rinaldi recommends
The 'Secret Browser' Inside iOS 10 — iOS 10 enables apps within iMessage which apparently run within an embedded web view.
David McIntosh
Peter Cooper recommends
Google: 53% of Mobile Users Abandon Sites That Take Longer Than 3 Seconds to Load
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