Mobile Dev Weekly Issue 137: December 14, 2016

December 14, 2016 #137

Holly Schinsky recommends

Testing Your App On Real Devices — Tips and services to ensure your app runs on a wide range of devices without having to own and maintain them.
Greenhouse CI

Brian Rinaldi recommends

What Next for CSS Grid Layout? — Rachel follows up her article from years back by looking at how far the CSS Grid Layout has come and some of the things she thinks it could do in the future.
Rachel Andrew

Chris Brandrick recommends

EU Ready to Set Laws for Accessibility Testing — The EU parliament is drafting a directive that will force private sector companies to conduct web/app accessibility testing when offering their goods and services.
Jade Mitchell

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Holly Schinsky recommends

Offline App Architecture, Build for The Next Billion — Tips to help you create the best offline-first apps.
Arun Sasidharan

Peter Cooper recommends

Keyframes: Delivering Scalable, High-quality Animations to Mobile Clients — The library behind Facebook Reactions (Like, Love, etc) is now open source. It can export and play back After Effects animations on iOS and Android devices. Find the associated repo here.
Facebook Code

Brian Rinaldi recommends

What is Adaptive Design? (And is it Different from Responsive Design?) — An attempt to clarify the differences between the responsive and adaptive labels in favor of adaptive design.
Daniel Schwarz

Chris Brandrick recommends

Progressive Web AMPs — PWA or AMP? Both! Paul looks at how to combine progressive web apps and AMP to provide fast experiences on the web, with all the whistles and bells of native apps.
Paul Bakaus

Chris Brandrick recommends

Mobile Is Eating The World — “As we pass 2.5bn smartphones on earth and head towards 5bn, and mobile moves from creation to deployment, the questions change.”
Benedict Evans

Holly Schinsky recommends

learning-pwa: Learning Progressive Web Apps step by step — A collection of articles, tools and other resources for learning and developing Progressive Web Apps.
Jimmy Moon

Brian Rinaldi recommends

5 Progressive Web Apps Worth Exploring
Dean Hume

Holly Schinsky recommends

Simple Progressive Web App Built with React — An example of a simple Progressive Web App built with React.
Naufal Rabbani

Holly Schinsky recommends

Ionic By Component: Page Lifecycle — Understanding and using Ionic lifecycle events to do powerful things at various phases of a page’s lifecycle.
Sani Yusuf

Holly Schinsky recommends

What's New in Apache Cordova/PhoneGap — A slidedeck from the recent PhoneGap Paris Meetup.
Simon MacDonald

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Common React Native App Layouts: Gallery Page — Part of a continuing series that looks at how to use React Native to create page layouts that are common in mobile apps.
Wernher-Bel Ancheta

Chris Brandrick recommends

Top 10 Challenges of Maintaining The Mobile Device Lab — The challenges you may face when maintaining a mobile device lab, such as procuring the right devices, updates, access rights, etc.
Testing Geek

Holly Schinsky recommends

High Performance Parallax Animation in Ionic 2 — Leveraging the latest changes in Ionic 2 to build the most performant apps using parallax animation.
Josh Morony

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Bootstrap 4: Regular Grid vs Flexbox Grid — A look at the new Bootstrap 4 flexbox grid system and how it differs from the prior grid system.
Danny Markov

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Browser Trends December 2016: Mobile Overtakes Desktop — This was a much talked about event recently, but this post looks specifically at the browser usage stats.
Craig Buckler