Mobile Web Weekly September 6, 2017   #174
Peter Cooper recommends
How to Make Your Responsive Mobile Site Hurt My Heart — A collection of one developer’s ‘most heinous annoyances’ with many modern, responsive mobile sites.
Liam Symonds
Peter Cooper recommends
Building Offline-Friendly Forms — Forms on the web don’t often play nice with bad connections, but here’s an approach to making them more robust.
Max Böck
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Yes, That Web Project Should Be a PWA — .. and here’s why. Most sites can benefit from becoming a PWA — and your users will benefit too.
Aaron Gustafson
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10 Ways to Get Your Boss to Buy You Something — Get Your Boss to Buy You Things ...and look good in the process. A guide to advocating for products effectively.
VividCortex

Brian Rinaldi recommends
Introducing the 'Mobile Web Specialist' Certification by Google Developers — This new certification aims to highlight developers who have in-demand skills as mobile web developers.
Sarah Clark
Chris Brandrick recommends
The Tiny Keyboard Problem: Do People Complete Forms on Their Phones? — “People are 81% more likely to fill out a form if they’re on their desktop computers instead of phones.”
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Holly Schinsky recommends
Why Progressive Web Apps Might Be Just The Thing Microsoft Needs — Microsoft has been working to add the latest web standards features to their browser to support PWA’s.
Syed Faraaz Ahmad
Holly Schinsky recommends
How Can You Acquire More Users with Android Instant Apps? — Instant Apps allows a user to access a cloud-based version of an app on an Android phone without installing it from the Play Store.
Erica Louise
Holly Schinsky recommends
WhatsApp-Like Location Sharing with Ionic — How to add location sharing to your mobile apps built with Ionic.
Digvijay Singh
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The 2017 Firebase Summit is coming to Amsterdam 31 October 2017 — Attend technical sessions, instructor-led codelabs & demos, and meet-ups with Firebase developers.
Google, Inc.

Holly Schinsky recommends
Launching An App? Make App Store Optimization A Foundation For Growth — Some advice to help you get a base level of users that you can grow from.
Aidan Sliney
Chris Brandrick recommends
Using Web Components in Ionic
Google Chrome Developers
Holly Schinsky recommends
How to Implement Facebook Login via the Official SDK
Albert Gao
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Progressively Worse Apps — The author argues that asynchronously loaded page elements can cause usability issues on slower connections.
Kyle Conroy
Chris Brandrick recommends
How Is ARCore Better Than ARKit? — Beyond the comparison, there is some good info here on both the basics and the current state of mobile AR.
Matt Miesnieks
Peter Cooper recommends
Using Google AMP for Ecommerce Might Not Be The Best Choice Currently
Lesley Paone
Brian Rinaldi recommends
AMPersand: More Opinions on Google and AMP — Ethan argues that the argument for the AMP project based on page speed is often undercut by its privileged spot in search results.
Ethan Marcotte
Holly Schinsky recommends
Framework7 v2 Beta — Has been rewritten with ES-next syntax, including more highly performant and functional components in the new v2 beta.
Vladimir Kharlampidi