Mobile Dev Weekly January 17, 2018   #190
Chris Brandrick recommends
Announcing the Ionic PWA Toolkit Beta — "The recommended way to easily build fast and production-ready PWAs with Ionic.""
Justin Willis
Holly Schinsky recommends
Small Tweaks To Make a Huge Impact on Your Site's Accessibility — Looking to address your website’s accessibility? Here, Andy Bell shares some tips on “small things that can make a big difference, while hopefully not affecting your development process too much”.
CSS Tricks
Sponsored
Seamless Continuous Integration and Delivery for Mobile Pros — With Nevercode you can build, test and deploy iOS, Android, React Native, Ionic and Cordova apps. Set up your projects in minutes, let Nevercode take care of server maintenance and spend your time on more enjoyable things. Like writing quality code.
Nevercode.io

Holly Schinsky recommends
Your Guide to Getting Feedback Fast and Building Better Apps — Get feedback from your apps fast by including feature flags, metrics and more.
Marco Kuiper
Brian Rinaldi recommends
The State of UX for 2018 — A look at UX design and development trends, most of which are related to mobile app design.
Anthony Miller
Chris Brandrick recommends
Jasonette Agent — A new architecture for building native apps that utilizes JavaScript technologies without sacrificing native peformance/user experience.
Jasonette
Mobile Web
Brian Rinaldi recommends
How to Debug Progressive Web Apps using Browser Developer Tools — This tutorial explains what tools the Chrome and Firefox Dev Tools display that help you debug a Progressive Web App.
Write Software
Chris Brandrick recommends
Typography for Glanceable Reading: Bigger Is Better — 40% of the phone sessions last less than 15 seconds, so large glanceable typography can be important.
Nielsen Norman Group
Peter Cooper recommends
Leaflet 1.3.0: A JavaScript Library for Mobile-Friendly Interactive Maps
Andrew Cherniavskii
Hybrid Apps
Holly Schinsky recommends
Hosting an Ionic PWA with Firebase Hosting — Part three in a series on building a Progressive Web App with Ionic, focused on hosting the app with Firebase. Here are part one and part two.
Josh Morony
Holly Schinsky recommends
Uploading Files from an Ionic App to Firebase Cloud Storage — Learn how to add File Upload to Firebase Cloud Storage capabilities to your Ionic apps with this short video.
Samarth Agarwal
Native Development
Chris Brandrick recommends
Kotlin 1.2.20 Is Out — A new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.2.
Dmitry Jemerov
Chris Brandrick recommends
Announcing Realm Cloud: Realm Platform as a Service Beta — A new ‘as-a-service’ version of the Realm Platform — described as “the easiest way to add offline first and realtime data sync features” to your mobile apps.
Realm
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Getting Started with Augmented Reality in NativeScript — How you can build your first AR iOS app using NativeScript.
TJ VanToll
Chris Brandrick recommends
Best Practices for Mobile AR Design — “AR is new, so creators need to think carefully when it comes to designing intuitive user interactions.”
Alesha Unpingco
Holly Schinsky recommends
Building A News App With Flutter and Firebase
Ankur Kedia
Chris Brandrick recommends
How We Improved Our Android App "Cold Start" Time by 28%
Anshu Rustagi
Chris Brandrick recommends
Reverse-Engineering the iPhone X Home Indicator Color — What color is the home indicator? The answer is surprisingly complex.
Nathan Gitter