This Week in Mobile Web Development (#129)

October 12, 2016 #129

Holly Schinsky recommends

The Annoying Mobile Double-Tap Link Issue— How to fix the double-tap link issue on iOS.
Chris Coyier

Chris Brandrick recommends

AMP Is One Year Old and Growing Fast— There are now 600 million AMP pages on 700,000 domains - Will it ultimately trump responsive design?
Greg Sterling

Holly Schinsky recommends

PhoneGap Build Now Accepts Cordova Projects— PhoneGap Build can now accept apps created with the Apache Cordova CLI.
Brett Rudd

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Brian Rinaldi recommends

Upgrading Hybrid Apps to Native with NativeScript— An in-depth resource to aid decision making on development technologies and frameworks, plus a guide with advice for devs migrating from hybrid to native.
Nic Raboy, Burke Holland and TJ VanToll

Brian Rinaldi recommends

What’s The Deal With The Samsung Internet Browser?— Chrome for Android is actually several browsers, not just Google Chrome, one of which is the Chromium-based Samsung browser, with about 400M users globally.
Peter-Paul Koch

Chris Marshall recommends

Pressing Buy: The State of Mobile Commerce in 5 Charts— In just two years, nearly half of all e-commerce transactions are likely to now occur on mobile phones.
Grace Caffyn

Holly Schinsky recommends

Google and Progressive Web Apps: The Mobile Experience and SEO— Progressive Web Apps and their implications on SEO performance.
Jim Yu

Holly Schinsky recommends

Is it Time to AMP Up Your Website?— Now that your website is mobile-friendly, can you sit back and relax? Maybe not. The next big thing in the mobile web is Accelerated Mobile Pages.
Laurie Shook and Beth Kahlich

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Refreshing The Verge: Facebook Video, Google AMP, and The (Non)Future of The Web— Nilay Patel on the “sad, slow death of the open web”. For The Verge mobile web article pages are quickly becoming the least important thing they make.
The Verge

Chris Brandrick recommends

Build A Material Design App with Angular 2— This walkthrough reveals how to create a DialogComponent and to-do app with Angular Material and the Angular CLI.
Daniel Zen

Chris Brandrick recommends

Integrating React Native Into An Existing Swift App
Ray Wenderlich

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Xamarin for Cordova – A Bizarre Idea?— The team at Zühlke Germany decided that there were legitimate use cases for this combination and devised strategies to make it work.
Robin Wiegand Kerry Lothrop

Holly Schinsky recommends

Node 0.x and 4.x Deprecation Timeline for Apache Cordova— Recommendations for supported and deprecated node versions to come for Apache Cordova developers.
Apache Cordova

Holly Schinsky recommends

Add Analytics to Your PhoneGap App with Appsee— How to add support for qualitative analytics to your PhoneGap apps.
Appsee

Chris Brandrick recommends

App Size Calculator— Does app size affect install rate? According to Segment’s data every MB matters.
Segment

Holly Schinsky recommends

Monitaure: A Server Uptime Monitoring Application— A Progressive Web App project built with React/Redux that serves as a free server monitoring app for Sys Admins.
Bertrand Junqua

Holly Schinsky recommends

Ionic 2 Firebase 3 Facebook Authentication: Full Guide— Build an app with Ionic 2 and Firebase 3 that allows Facebook authentication.
Jave Bratt

Holly Schinsky recommends

Creating Role Based Authentication with Passport in Ionic 2 – Part 1— How to build an Ionic 2 app with role-based authentication using Passport and the MEAN stack.
Josh Morony

Brian Rinaldi recommends

How to Use CSS Feature Queries— How CSS Feature Queries can be used to detect support for specific features on different browsers.
Abbey Fitzgerald

Brian Rinaldi recommends

AtoZ CSS Quick Tip: Creating Responsive Design with Media Queries— Tips for writing better media queries for responsive design.
Guy Routledge

Holly Schinsky recommends

A Faster Mobile Web: WordPress.com Updates for Accelerated Mobile Pages— WordPress.com users’ sites now support Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).
WordPress