This Week in Mobile Web Development (#90)

January 13, 2016 #90

Peter Cooper recommends

9 Principles of Mobile Web Design— Keep menus simple, keep forms short, have obvious calls to action, and more mobile Web common sense.
Kim Speier

Holly Schinsky recommends

A Faster Hybrid App for the New Year— Why you should be using the recently released Cordova iOS 4.0.x for faster hybrid iOS apps in 2016.
Devgirl's Weblog

Peter Cooper recommends

Mobile Gestures: 40% of Sites Don't Support Pinch or Tap Gestures for Product Images— A look at some usability test findings on what image zoom gestures users expect to be supported on mobile image galleries.
Baymard Institute

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Brian Rinaldi recommends

The Post-Mobile Era— Ben Bajarin gives his view where the world goes now that mobile devices have already peaked in saturation and a mobile market is mature.
Re/code

Brian Rinaldi recommends

An Introduction to Cordova: Example— A walkthrough for creating your first simple Cordova app by Wernher-Bel Ancheta.
Nettuts+

Holly Schinsky recommends

Tutorial: Create a Weather and News Reader App with Ionic and Drupal— A tutorial on how to create a weather and news reader app using Ionic and Drupal.
Annertech

Holly Schinsky recommends

Speaking with Cordova – Text To Speech and Voice Recognition using the Ionic Framework— A guest post on implementing Text to Speech and Voice Recognition in your Ionic apps.
Simon Reimler

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Going from Static to Dynamic with Ionic Creator— How to move from a “static” Ionic Creator proof of concept to a dynamic one that makes use of a real API.
Raymond Camden

Holly Schinsky recommends

Ionic and TypeScript: Part 5— The final screencast in a series on Ionic & TypeScript showing how to convert your Ionic 1 app to Ionic 2.
The Official Ionic Blog

Holly Schinsky recommends

Use ng2-cordova-oauth For All Your Ionic 2 Oauth Needs— A new library to help make Oauth easier to implement in your Ionic 2 apps.
Nic Raboy's Blog

Holly Schinsky recommends

Ionic 2 Banner Ads With AdMob Pro Plugin— A new version of a previous tutorial on adding banner ads to your Ionic apps with the AdMob Pro Plugin targeting Ionic 2 apps.
PointDeveloper.com

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Why I Moved From A Square To A Circle— An alternative UI proposal for handling numeric keypads on mobile apps by C Y Gopinath.
Smashing Magazine

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