Mobile Dev Weekly October 11, 2017   #179
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android: What Developers Need to Know — Microsoft Edge is coming to iOS and Android and (unsurprisingly) uses WebKit on iOS but on Android it uses the Blink rendering engine from Chromium.
Sean Lyndersay
Chris Brandrick recommends
Introducing Cloud Firestore: Google's New Document Database for Apps — A fully-managed NoSQL document database for mobile and web app development.
Alex Dufetel
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Peter Cooper recommends
Microsoft Gives Up On Windows 10 Mobile — The technology company says it struggled to convince others to make mobile apps for the platform.
BBC News
Mobile Web
Brian Rinaldi recommends
iPhone X Notch Advice for Web Developers — A look at options for handling the iPhone X and Essential PH-1 phone notches.
Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Holly Schinsky recommends
Getting A High Progressive Web App Score On React and Material-UI — Basic techniques used to get a high score for a sample app based on a stack of React, Redux and Material-UI.
Denis Degtiarev
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Designing Layouts - Flexbox — A look at using flexbox to align, layout and distribute space among elements.
The Practical Dev
Holly Schinsky recommends
UI Design for iPhone X: Top Elements and the Notch — How to deal with top elements and the notch when designing for the iPhone X.
Max Rudberg
Holly Schinsky recommends
The New Ease of Building App-Like, Reliable and Engaging Web Apps — Using Angular and Cloud Firestore (Google’s new database for Firebase) to create a basic PWA in less than 1 hour.
Josua Bücher
Holly Schinsky recommends
Supporting Offline Users: What Happens When it Breaks?
John Kleinschmidt
Holly Schinsky recommends
Service Worker Gotchas — Potential pitfalls to be aware of and understand when using service workers.
Osvaldas Valutis
Holly Schinsky recommends
Trivago Embrace Progressive Web Apps As The Future of Mobile — Trivago invests in Progressive Web Apps to create a better, more stable mobile experience.
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Hybrid Apps
Brian Rinaldi recommends
WKWebView for All: A New Webview for Ionic — All new Ionic apps will run on WKWebView by default.
Mike Hartington
Holly Schinsky recommends
Electrode Native: The Platform For Integrating React Native Into Your Apps — Electrode Native offers a streamlined integration of React Native into existing mobile apps.
Alex Grigoryan
Brian Rinaldi recommends
NativeScript UI is Now Free — Here’s How to Get Started — NativeScript UI is now 100% free and this article shows how to get started with the UI controls.
TJ VanToll
Native Development
Peter Cooper recommends
Matcha: Build iOS and Android Apps with Go — Matcha provides UI components in a way similar to React Native and exposes bindings to Objective-C and Java code.
Kevin Dang
Holly Schinsky recommends
How To Develop Mobile Apps for IoT: 12 Things You Should Know About
Max Sushchuk
Holly Schinsky recommends
The 10 Commandments of Mobile App Design — Ten tried and true aspects of mobile app design that any developer or designer should follow to create an awesome app.
Angelica Valentine
Chris Brandrick recommends
SwiftFest 2017 Conference - Coming to Boston in November — A community-driven event focused on new perspectives about Swift and the iOS dev ecosystem. Register with the code SWIFT3 for 10% off.
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