Mobile Web Weekly November 9, 2016   #133
Peter Cooper recommends
Google's Mobile-First Indexing Approach — Google has begun experiments to make their index mobile-first. Their algorithms will eventually primarily use the mobile version of a site’s content to rank pages.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
Browsers, Not Apps, Are The Future of Mobile — Proclamations of an all-native mobile app world ignore the fact that browsers and the web are fast becoming the mobile operating system of the future.
Hugh Durkin
Holly Schinsky recommends
Native Apps are Doomed — As mobile web traffic numbers rise, mobile devs should be considering the Progressive Web App standard as part of their app distribution strategy.
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
Building Angular 2 Web and Native Apps from a Single Codebase — Jen Looper walks through the Angular 2 Advanced Seed project designed to optimize sharing code between a mobile, desktop and web application.
Telerik Developer Network
Holly Schinsky recommends
Progressive Web Applications: What Exactly Are They? — An in-depth walkthrough of Progressive Web Apps, their components, features, pros and cons and when to consider using them.
Mark Pedersen
Peter Cooper recommends
A State of Mobile Web Q3 2016 Report — Includes a PDF infographic showing the most popular devices in different regions of the world. There’s also a 36-minute roundup video of the report’s findings.
Jon Arne S.
Chris Brandrick recommends
What Everyone Should Know About The Process Behind App Design — Michael Flarup explains how the process of designing an app has stayed pretty much the same, and how we go through the many phases that constitute the creation of an app.
Smashing Magazine
Brian Rinaldi recommends
The State of Responsive 3D Shapes — Can you create responsive 3D shapes? Ana Tudor explains that the answer is a bit more complex than a simple yes/no.
CSS Tricks
Chris Brandrick recommends
Rethinking Responsive Design — ”..the future of the web exists beyond screens.”
Una Kravets
Chris Brandrick recommends
New Relic Adds Infrastructure and Mobile App Tracking to Its Monitoring Service — New Relic is adding new Unified Dashboards and Mobile Crash Analysis services to its Digital Intelligence Platform.
TC Currie
Holly Schinsky recommends
PhoneGap Push Plugin 1.9.0 — PhoneGap has released v1.9.0 of the Push Plugin with updates for: a default SENDER_ID, CocoaPod Support, and Force Start on Android.
PhoneGap Blog
Chris Brandrick recommends
Announcing Ionic 2 RC 2 — You can see the changelog here.
Brandy Carney
Holly Schinsky recommends
An Example of the Ionic Auth Service with Ionic 2 — A complete sample app and tutorial on how to use the Ionic 2 Authentication service.
Raymond Camden
Brian Rinaldi recommends
CSS Grids, Flexbox And Box Alignment: Our New System For Web Layout — Rachel Andrew explains that by understanding flexbox you are very close to understanding much of grid layout. Plenty of great CodePen examples.
Rachel Andrew
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Ionic 2 Form Handling & Validation — Several examples to help you master data collection using forms, along with some techniques to excel the user experience.
Gonza Di Giovanni
Chris Brandrick recommends
The Golden Rules Of Bottom Navigation Design — “Navigation is a conversation. It doesn’t matter how good your site or app is if users can’t find their way around.”
Nick Babich
Holly Schinsky recommends
How to Debug Android WebView Content — Quick start info for remotely debugging Android webviews.
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