#181: Building a Modern Mobile Media Experience

Read this on the Web Mobile Dev Weekly October 25, 2017   #181 Chris Brandrick recommends Building a Modern Mobile Media Experience — Francois Beaufort and John Pallett review best practices for mobile web media, including playback controls, pre-loading, autoplay and offline. Google Chrome Developers Chris Brandrick recommends The Second Mobile Cycle — “while many people, having pronounced the app store dead, shifted their attention to chat bots, AR/VR, voice devices, etc., something interesting took place: the second mobile cycle.” Eric Benjamin Seufert Holly Schinsky recommends Stop Designing For Only 85% Of Users: Nailing Accessibility In Design — A discussion of the most common visual impairments and how you can make small changes to your visual interface and workflow to ensure the highest level of accessibility. Tom Graham André Gonçalves Sponsored 10 Ways to Get Your Boss to Buy You Something — Get your boss to buy you things... and look good in the process. A guide to advocating for products effectively. VividCortex Chris Brandrick recommends Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices — Addy Osmani runs through loading best practices for diagnosing and making real-world sites load ‘instantly’. Filmed at the Chrome Dev Summit 2017. Google Chrome Developers Brian Rinaldi recommends Introducing the 'Mobile Excellence Award' to Celebrate Great Work on the Mobile Web Google Mobile Web Holly Schinsky recommends Build A Fast Offline-First PWA with StencilJs Christian Nwamba Peter Cooper recommends How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman and Nginx — “you can get a better user experience by just building websites that are fast, and you don’t need to use AMP.” Michael Elliott Brian Rinaldi recommends Can You Afford It? Real-World Web Performance Budgets — Concepts, tools and resources for creating a performance budget for your progressive web app. Alex Russell Sponsored $20 Free on a new Linode account — Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Get $20 credit on a new account. Linode Cloud Hosting Za'e Johnson recommends Weex Ui: A High-Performance UI Library Alibaba Hybrid Apps Holly Schinsky recommends Announcing PhoneGap Push Plugin Version 2.1.0 — We’re happy to announce the release of the updated PhoneGap Push plugin which brings support for Android O and cordova-android 6.3.0. Simon MacDonald Holly Schinsky recommends How to Make Progressive Web Apps with Ionic — Guidance on how to deploy your next Ionic app as a PWA. Jorge Vergara Holly Schinsky recommends An Introduction to Ionic Development: Creating An Ionic App Inviqa Native Development Peter Cooper recommends 11 Is The New 7: iOS Designers, Please Stop Making Us Motion Sick — A plea to use motion with caution. Herb Sutter Brian Rinaldi recommends Code Your First Augmented Reality App With ARKit Vardhan Agrawal Chris Brandrick recommends How To Design Notifications For Better UX — “Notifications are anti UX. They are a distraction. So how to design your notification so that it becomes purposeful and useful?” CanvasFlip Holly Schinsky recommends sketch-to-react-native: Convert Sketch Files Into React Native Components NanoHop Curated by Brian Rinaldi and Holly Schinsky for Cooperpress. Cooperpress is located at Office 30, Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Update your email address or stop receiving MDW here