This Week in Mobile Web Development (#147)

March 1, 2017 #147

Peter Cooper recommends

Progressive Web App Libraries in Production— “In 2017, if you aren’t taking advantage of Service Workers, you’re leaving performance wins for returning users on the table.”
Addy Osmani

Holly Schinsky recommends

Touch Devices Should Not Be Judged By Their Size— Media queries aren’t always enough when designing for touch screens, but a new Interaction Media spec can help by detecting pointing device and hover capabilities.
Andres Galante

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages Now Accounts for 7% of Traffic to Big US Publishers— According to data released by Adobe Analytics, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) now accounts for a significant and growing portion of traffic to major publishers.
Rich McCormick

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Rangle.io

Holly Schinsky recommends

How to Build Your Own Progressive Image Loader— A handy technique for progressive image loading to provide the best performance in your hybrid mobile apps.
Craig Buckler

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Why I Love Element Queries and You Should Too— What makes element queries powerful and how you can get started using them with the EQCSS plugin.
Tommy Hodgins

Chris Brandrick recommends

Nokia’s 3310 Returns to Life As A Modern Classic— Basic web use is achieved via the bundled Opera Mini browser, running over a 2.5G connection.
Tom Warren

Peter Cooper recommends

How to Build an Ionic 2 App with Native Plugin Integrations
Coding Sans

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Great Alternatives to Hamburger Menus— How to make your navigation obvious and keep people engaged.
Mobiscroll

Chris Brandrick recommends

Sneak Preview of NativeScript 3.0— Georgi Atanasov gives us a sneak preview of NativeScript 3.0, due out in mid-April.
NativeScript

Peter Cooper recommends

How to Make Your App a PWA
Mirosław Ciastek

Holly Schinsky recommends

Increasing Performance with Efficient DOM Writes in Ionic 2
Josh Morony

Brian Rinaldi recommends

Introduction to Ionic 2— A look at what’s new and changed between Ionic 1 and 2 and whether you should choose Ionic 2 for your project.
Wernher-Bel Ancheta

Holly Schinsky recommends

Ionic Split Pane Component— An in-depth look at the split pane component recently released by Ionic.
Chris Griffith

Holly Schinsky recommends

How to Install 3rd Party Libraries in Ionic 2
Joshua Morony

Brian Rinaldi recommends

CSS Grid: Learning New Layout - Responsive— A quick comparison of the code necessary to create a grid with and without CSS Grid support.
Susan Robertson

Holly Schinsky recommends

A Roundup of Vue.js-Supporting Mobile Hybrid App Frameworks— A roundup of hybrid mobile frameworks supporting Vue.js 2.0.
Alligator.io

Holly Schinsky recommends

Testing on Multiple Form factors— Maya-kai mirrors gestures and user interactions in React Native applications, making it useful for testing apps on devices with different screen sizes at the same time.
Parashuram N

Peter Cooper recommends

Design a Perfect Search Box— How this element can be improved in order to save the user time in going where they want.
Nick Babich

Brian Rinaldi recommends

spacegrid: A Basic, Responsive Grid Layout
Jonathan Speek