Mobile Dev Weekly Issue 222: August 29, 2018

August 29, 2018 #222

Za'e Johnson recommends

Best Practices For Mobile Form Design — A key goal as a Web developer is to make the process of filling out a form as easy as possible. This article shares a lot of practical techniques for designing effective mobile forms.
Smashing Magazine

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Carousels on Mobile Devices — Carousels on touch screens are plagued by low discoverability and sequential access, and not all designs implement swipe as a carousel control.
Raluca Budiu

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Progress

Peter Cooper recommends

F2: A Flexible Charting Library Aimed at Mobile Devices — An HTML5 canvas-based charting library aimed specifically at mobile use cases and that supports the Web , Weex and React Native.
Sima

Holly Schinsky recommends

Exploring the New Android App Bundle Format — A look at the new Android App bundle to help understand what it is, how it works and how to add support for it in your own applications. “the big difference is that the responsibility of building APKs is passed onto Google Play”
Joe Birch

Brian Rinaldi recommends

PWA: Progressive Web All-the-things — A look at some common misconceptions about PWA and a general philosophical direction of PWAs in the coming year.
Paul Kinlan

Brian Rinaldi recommends

The Median WordPress Page Weight is Heavier on Mobile than on Desktop (Just) — And it’s about 300 KB heavier than Drupal. (Hat tip to Bruce Lawson)
HTTP Archive

Holly Schinsky recommends

A Native Lazy Load for the Web Platform — A new Chrome feature, ‘Blink LazyLoad’, was designed to dramatically improve performance by deferring the load of below-the-fold images and third-party IFRAMEs.
Ben Schwarz

Brian Rinaldi recommends

CSS and PWAs: Some Tips for Building Progressive Web Apps — David Attard discusses a number of techniques that can be used when creating the CSS required for the development of PWAs.
SitePoint

Peter Cooper recommends

Getting Started with Service Workers — A basic introduction to using Service Workers in the context of a Progressive Web App.
Flavio Copes

Brian Rinaldi recommends

UX and HTML5: Let’s Help Users Fill In Your Mobile Form (Part 2) — This is the second part in a series on enhancing mobile forms for users. In the first part, we saw some general guidelines on how to improve form readability for mobile users, label placement and size, interaction cost and dealing with errors.
Smashing Magazine

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Google Flutter From Scratch: Animating Widgets — The basics of animating Flutter widgets
Ashraff Hathibelagal

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Nativescript-Vue: Native Mobile Apps in JavaScript without the Hard Parts — The author explains why he prefers NativeScript to React Native and specifically how to get started building apps with the Vue framework.
Arnav Gupta