Mobile Dev Weekly May 16, 2018   #207
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Exploring Progressive Web Apps to Enhance eBay’s Mobile Experience — A look at how eBay is using PWAs to enhance the offline experience and spot any network connectivity red flags.
Senthil Padmanabhan
Holly Schinsky recommends
Building Mobile Apps Using React Native and WordPress — Covers the foundations for building a mobile e-commerce app with React Native and WordPress.
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Peter Cooper recommends
Building a Progressive Web App in React — High level pointers if you’re considering building a PWA including a sample one-file app that uses Firebase for data storage with offline support.
Stelios Constantinides
Holly Schinsky recommends
Announcing Fuse Open: Making Fuse Free and Open Source — The entire Fuse platform will now be free and open source.
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Peter Cooper recommends
Browsers, Not Apps, Are Still The Future of Mobile — And the web is still most popular mobile operating system in the world.
Hugh Durkin (Zalando)
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Google I/O Developer Roundup: What’s New? — Includes some important announcements regarding the mobile web and Android.
Rachel Andrew
Holly Schinsky recommends
Visual Studio and Xamarin Announcements From Microsoft Build 2018
Marco Kuiper
Mobile Web
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Responsive Tables, Revisited — Using CSS to convert table rows to a horizontal layout for mobile devices.
Lea Verou
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Progressive Web Apps on the Desktop — While not about mobile, per se, this reinforces the idea that a PWA has the benefit of working across multiple types of screens.
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Hybrid Apps
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Build an Ionic App with User Authentication — An example using the Okta API and OpenID Connect (OIDC).
Matt Raible
Brian Rinaldi recommends
10 Myths About Hybrid Development (and How to Correct Them) — Some arguments in defense of hybrid apps.
Simon Grimm
Native Development
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Introducing ML Kit Beta — A new SDK that brings Google’s machine learning knowledge to mobile devs in an easy-to-use package on Firebase.
Google
Holly Schinsky recommends
Building a React Native App using Expo and Typescript — The first of a two-part guide on how to create a React Native app using Expo & Typescript.
Bharat Tiwari
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Getting Started with Firebase ML for iOS — How to use the machine learning kit released by Google at I/O.
Mohammad Azam
Holly Schinsky recommends
Building a Music Streaming App using React Native
Aakash N S
Holly Schinsky recommends
Building Beautiful UI with Flutter — Four starter app kits and UI themes for Flutter developers.
Shruti Kaushik and Shweta Pal