Mobile Web Weekly November 2, 2016   #132
Peter Cooper recommends
Mobile and Tablet Internet Usage Exceeds Desktop for First Time Worldwide — StatCounter data indicates that just over 51% of Web usage in October 2016 came from mobile devices rather than desktops.
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
A Lap Around Push Notifications — Simon MacDonald and Sam Basu discuss best practices when using push notifications in your app and Simon’s involvement with Apache Cordova.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
In-App Gestures And Mobile App User Experience — “The rise of touch and gesture-driven devices has dramatically changed the way we think about interaction. Gestures are the new clicks.”
Nick Babich
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
Google Is Making It Easier for Anyone to Design Beautiful Apps — Google is launching a number of Material Design tools that are not necessarily specific to native application development. In fact, Remixer specifically offers an SDK for web.
Dieter Bohn
Chris Brandrick recommends
Firefox Disables Loophole That Allows Sites to Track Users Via Battery Status — Mozilla has cut access to the battery status API feature, which allows sites to request capacity information of a visitor’s device.
Alex Hern
Holly Schinsky recommends
Cordova Tools Update — A new version of Apache Cordova tools has been released with new features, fixes and more.
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
New to the Command Line? — A walk through of Ionic’s command line tooling for any developers not typically comfortable on the command line.
Max Lynch
Holly Schinsky recommends
Implement Social Sharing with Ionic Framework V2 [RC1 Updated] — Adding Social Sharing to your apps with Ionic.
Jorge Vergara
Brian Rinaldi recommends
NativeScript for the .NET Developer — Why .NET developers may feel comfortable building mobile apps using NativeScript despite the lack of C#.
Rob Lauer
Holly Schinsky recommends
6 Technologies App Users Will Expect You to Consider in 2017 — A list of technologies you should be considering for use with your mobile apps in the near future.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
How to Create Effective Push Notifications — “For such a new technology, notifications have become real bland, real quick.”
Geoffrey Keating
Holly Schinsky recommends
The State of UX in 2016 — The results of a recent study revealing how different organizations are using UX today.
Leah Buley
Brian Rinaldi recommends
12 Tips for Mobile Design — Nick Babich shares a dozen UX design principles to consider when creating a mobile user experience.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
The Next Gen Web: Scaling Progressive Web Apps — This case study covers how Flipkart.com redesigned their site as a progressive web app, whilst dealing with the unique challenges of scaling to a new ecosystem without compromising on performance.
Abhinav Rastogi
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Welcome to Verge 3.0 — It appears that more and more companies that rely on syndication (like The Verge) have bought into Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP and Apple News.
Nilay Patel
Holly Schinsky recommends
How to Build Your Own Uber-for-X App — How to build an Uber like app using HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, Google Maps, MongoDB and Node.js.
Ashwin Hariharan
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Get Started With React Native Layouts — Learn how to lay out React Native apps and how to implement layouts commonly used in apps.
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