Mobile Dev Weekly February 14, 2018   #194
Brian Rinaldi recommends
AMP Stories: Bringing Visual Storytelling to the Open Web — Google launched AMP stories, which is an interactive and more visually rich format for AMP-enabled content. AMP Stories will also be enabled in Gmail.
Google
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Native and PWA: Choices, Not Challengers — A dig into the pros and cons of native apps versus progressive Web apps to help you arrive at an informed decision.
Smashing Magazine
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Peter Cooper recommends
Phaser 3.0: The 2D HTML5 Game Framework — No official release notes yet but it’s here. Phaser is a fast 2D game framework for building HTML5 games supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.
Richard Davey
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Getting Started with React Native and Expo — Expo is a set of tools that provide an abstraction layer over common mobile development tasks (e.g. push notifications, camera, location services) when working with React Native.
Mateusz Sojda
Brian Rinaldi recommends
An Early Look at Capacitor (A New Native Bridge for Web Apps) — An intro to Capacitor and what it can do — the Ionic team’s own version of Cordova.
Josh Morony
Mobile Web
Chris Brandrick recommends
Why The Hamburger Menu Should Disappear For Good
Ben Bate
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Chrome Will Mark All HTTP Sites As ‘Not Secure’ Starting in July
The Verge
Holly Schinsky recommends
Building a WebApp for the Future — Lucas shares his experience and tips from developing a super fast, future ready Progressive Web App (PWA).
Lusan Das
Peter Cooper recommends
Understanding Media Queries in HTML Email  — As well as helping you target mobile email clients, unpredictable support for modern Web tech on desktop and webmail clients makes media queries useful there too.
Jason Rodriguez
Hybrid Apps
Holly Schinsky recommends
Customizing Ionic Apps for Web and Mobile — Four areas to look at when your goal is to ship your Ionic app in multiple formats (ie: installed mobile app, PWA, website etc).
Simon Grimm
Native Development
Holly Schinsky recommends
The Status Bar Manager in React Native — Managing the status bar height in your React Native apps.
Evan Bacon
Chris Brandrick recommends
Mobile App With Facial Recognition Feature: How To Make It Real
Smashing Magazine
Peter Cooper recommends
Getting Started with ARKit — The first in a series exploring Apple’s ARKit API, including a practical look at building your first augmented reality app.
Berta Devant
Brian Rinaldi recommends
A Comprehensive Guide to Mobile App Design — Nick Babich shares practical recommendations that you can apply to your app design.
Smashing Magazine
Chris Brandrick recommends
Android Development: 15 Libraries You Should Be Using — Some awesome libraries that can help create better Android apps.
Idorenyin Obong
Peter Cooper recommends
Using App Center to Build, Test and Deliver iOS Apps — Walks you through how easily Microsoft’s Visual Studio App Center can centralise your Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery needs.
SitePoint
Chris Brandrick recommends
How HQ Trivia Could Prevent Outages Using Edge Computing — “HQ Trivia’s outages during the Super Bowl halftime show remind us that, even for seasoned professionals, designing apps that can handle the deluge that comes with overnight success is hard.”
Chris Gaun