Mobile Web Weekly January 4, 2017   #139
Chris Brandrick recommends
Strategies For Effective Mobile Landing Pages — Tim Jensen explains which guidelines to follow when creating landing pages, and shares the best strategies available that can help you achieve effective results.
Tim Jensen
Brian Rinaldi recommends
The (Not So) Secret Powers Of The Mobile Browser — A look at many of the new features in mobile browsers through specific use cases for them.
Stéphanie Walter
Holly Schinsky recommends
Create a Stylish News Feed Layout in Ionic 2 — How to build a stylish news feed layout in Ionic 2 using a parallax header and frosted glass effect in the navigation bar.
Josh Morony
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Za'e Johnson recommends
Google's Mobile Friendliness Testing Tool — A high level tool for testing how mobile-friendly your site is that’s based around the PageSpeed Insights tools.
Google
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Taking HTML5 Device Orientation for a Spin — A look at the HTML5 Device Orientation API and how to work with it on your own pages.
Drew McLellan
Holly Schinsky recommends
Help Test Ionic's Super Starter, A Starter Project for New Ionic 2.x Apps — Ionic releases a new preview starter project for Ionic 2.x apps with 14 ready to use designs for common mobile design patterns.
The Official Ionic Blog
Chris Brandrick recommends
The PRPL Pattern — PRPL (Push, Render, Pre-cache, Lazy-load) is a pattern for structuring and serving Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), with an emphasis on the performance of app delivery and launch.
Addy Osmani
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Why You Should Care About Revisiting The Native Vs. Hybrid Debate In 2017 — Scott takes a look at the current state of the hybrid or native app debate and concludes that hybrid is entering a “golden era” - though some commenters seem to disagree.
Scott Hendersson
Holly Schinsky recommends
Building a Reactive Audio App with WebVR — How to build a VR app using Three.js and the WebVR API.
Alex Kempton
Holly Schinsky recommends
Ionic By Component: Navigation — A look at the new Navigation system available in Ionic V2 and how to use the new features.
Sani Yusuf
Peter Cooper recommends
A Look at the Impact of React Native — 50 minutes
Josh Owens and Bonnie Eisenman
Za'e Johnson recommends
Google Helping Mobile Publishing? Some Publishers Are Not So Sure
The New York Times
Holly Schinsky recommends
From React to React-Native, What Are The Main Differences? — What you need to know when starting your first native app using React Native with previous experience in regular React.
Alexis Mangin
Holly Schinsky recommends
Tackling React Native Storage — How to persist data in your React Native apps using RealmDB.
Eric Kim
Brian Rinaldi recommends
The Current State of Adaptive Design — A comparison of some popular design tools and their pros and cons for designing adaptive sites.
Charlie Deets
Holly Schinsky recommends
Framework7 + Vue Starter Templates — Three new starter templates are now available to help you get started developing mobile apps quickly with Framework7 and Vue.js.
Framework7
Holly Schinsky recommends
AlloyFinger: Super Small Multi-Touch Gestures Library for the Web
AlloyTeam
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Rowing Monitor: A PWA Using Web Bluetooth to Connect to A PM5 Monitor — A Progressive Web App that connects to a monitor commonly used with rowing machines to track exercises.
Google
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Modular and Customizable Material Design UI Components — Material Design UI components that offer both native (iOS/Android) and web.
GitHub