Mobile Web Weekly February 1, 2017   #143
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Ionic 2.0: Framework For Building Mobile Apps with Angular — Ionic 2.0 comes with new cross-platform components with Material Design support, a native features plugin system, and enhanced performance.
Official Ionic Blog
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Google Introduces API for Testing 'Mobile-Friendliness' — You can now test whether Google thinks your site is “mobile-friendly” via an API, allowing you to automate the process.
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Holly Schinsky recommends
Today's Mobile App Development Landscape — The array of choices in the mobile app world, both native and Web-based, can lead to a paralysis in decision making. See how one company analysed their options.
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
Chrome on iOS is Now Open Source — Up until now, Chrome for iOS was not part of the open source code on the Chromium project.
Rohit Rao
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Ionic 2 Brings Performance Improvements and New Native Plugin System — An overview of the significant changes in Ionic 2.
James Chesters
Brian Rinaldi recommends
We Built A PWA From Scratch, This Is What We Learned — Technical lessons/tips picked up from a team building their first PWA.
Hjörtur Hilmarsson
Peter Cooper recommends
Building a Morphing Hamburger Menu with CSS — A developer saw an attractive hamburger menu expansion effect and set out to replicate it with CSS only.
Luis Manuel
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Making 'input type=date' Complicated — A look at 'input type=date' that leads to discussion of whether widgets on all browsers should behave the same.
Peter-Paul Koch
Holly Schinsky recommends
Getting Started with Ionic 2 by Building A Markdown App — A getting started guide to Ionic 2 by walking through the creation of an editor where you can type Markdown and switch to a rendered view.
Amit Merchant
Holly Schinsky recommends
Syncing with Couchbase in an Ionic 2 App using PouchDB
Nic Raboy
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Mixed Content and Responsive Images — Images defined in a ‘picture’ element on an encrypted page (i.e. https) will not load if they are served from an unencrypted context (i.e. http).
Jonathan Snook
Holly Schinsky recommends
The Underestimated Power of Color on Mobile — Important points on color in apps, and how to choose colors/contrasts for the best usability.
Nick Babich
Brian Rinaldi recommends
What’s Up with Firefox, The Browser That Time Forgot? — A look at what happened at Mozilla in recent years and how it plans to revitalize Firefox (including mobile versions).
Walt Mossberg
Holly Schinsky recommends
React Navigation for React Native — A flexible navigation library including customizable views for React Native and routers for any platform.
React Navigation
Holly Schinsky recommends
A React Native + Salesforce Mobile SDK Sample Application — A sample Employee Directory/Org Chart app built with React Native and the Salesforce Mobile SDK.
Christophe Coenraets
Holly Schinsky recommends
cordova-plugin-native-keyboard: Fancy Messenger Style Chat Keyboard for Cordova Apps
Eddy Verbruggen
Holly Schinsky recommends
Simple Ionic2 App Using Ionic.io Auth and MobX To Manage Authentication State
Aaron K Saunders
Brian Rinaldi recommends
What Are Your Thoughts On Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)? — An open (and civilized) discussion on the pros and cons of AMP.
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