Mobile Dev Weekly December 6, 2017   #186
Peter Cooper recommends
A Pinterest Progressive Web App Performance Case Study — Pinterest’s new mobile web experience is a Progressive Web App. This post looks at the work involved in making it work fast on mobile hardware.
Addy Osmani
Peter Cooper recommends
Microsoft Edge Browser Now Available for All Android and iOS Users — Android and iOS versions of Microsoft’s flagship browser are now generally available.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
The 'Next Level' of Mobile App Development? — Nick Babich explains how to use Dropsource (a free visual platform for building mobile apps) to create a native application.
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Mobile Web
Chris Brandrick recommends
Progressive Image Loading using Intersection Observer and SQIP — SQIP is an SVG-based LQIP (Low Quality Image Placeholders) technique.
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Holly Schinsky recommends
How to Design Responsive and Device-Agnostic Forms — Create forms that work perfectly for mobile devices with this expert advice.
Nick Babich
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Your Most Frequent Visitors Don’t Benefit From Your AMP Pages — Ruadhán O’Donoghue argues that frequent users of a site may receive a worse experience with AMP than random one-off visitors.
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Hybrid Apps
Chris Brandrick recommends
Passing Data Between Pages in an Ionic App
Aman Mittal
Native Development
Brian Rinaldi recommends
How to Update Your App for iOS 11: Drag and Drop — Building native iOS applications using the new Drag and Drop SDK.
Doron Katz
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Creating Accessible Android Apps — Tips on how to provide the best experience for everyone who uses your app by optimizing for the accessibility features baked into every Android device.
Jessica Thornsby
Brian Rinaldi recommends
React Native: The Things That You Should Be Aware of Before Coming Onboard — A look at some of the things that can trip up developers new to React Native, specifically those coming from native development.
Eliasz Sawicki
Za'e Johnson recommends
How to Set Up Continuous Integration with React Native — Using Visual Studio App Center to automatically build and distribute a React Native app.
Spencer Carli
Za'e Johnson recommends
Diving Into Mobile with React Native — How two developers at Afinity took a chance on React Native to build out the mobile counterpart of their web app.
Shrey Gupta
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Holly Schinsky recommends
Getting Started with Firebase Authentication on React Native
Chris Bianca
Chris Brandrick recommends
Assistive Tech: VoiceOver on iOS — A quick intro to VoiceOver, the screen reader built in to iOS, and what quirks and gotchas to be aware of when developing for mobile.
Rob Dodson
Chris Brandrick recommends
React Native App Performance Issues and Ways to Improve Them
Purvak Pathak
Chris Brandrick recommends
Creating an App with Multiple Side Drawers
Connor Sleight