#187: How To Make Your Web App Work Offline

Read this on the Web Mobile Dev Weekly December 13, 2017   #187 Peter Cooper recommends Understanding The Evolution of UI Vulnerabilities in Mobile Browsers — A study into the security of mobile web browsers suggests widespread weaknesses, with the situation only getting worse. Adrian Colyer Brian Rinaldi recommends Making HTML Responsive with a Single Line of CSS — The responsiveness happens in a single CSS Grid-related property, namely grid-template-columns coupled with the auto-fit keyword. Per Harald Borgen Chris Brandrick recommends Microsoft Edge on Android: Windows 10 Browser Spinoff Clocks Up Million Users — A promising start for Microsoft’s new Edge app as it quickly reaches a million downloads on Android. Liam Tung Sponsored Linux Cloud Hosting Starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo — Get a Linode server up and running in seconds. Simply choose your plan, distro and location and you’re ready to deploy your server. Get $20 credit on a new account. Linode Cloud Hosting Brian Rinaldi recommends Making Your Web App Work Offline — A two-part series intended to be a gentle introduction to offline web development. Part one looks at the setup, with part two covering the implementation. Adam Rackis Brian Rinaldi recommends iOS 11 Horror Story: The Rise and Fall of iOS Security — While not specifically development related, this article touches on a lot of the ways the author believes that Apple has neutered security in iOS 11. ElcomSoft blog Mobile Web Chris Brandrick recommends Getting Started with Building PWAs using Vue — An introduction on how to build a book listing app with progressive web apps using Vue to build the UI. Chris Nwamba Holly Schinsky recommends Typography In Mobile Design: 15 Best Practices To Excellent UI — A collection of practices to help design with mobile typography. Trista liu Holly Schinsky recommends Creating Progressive Web Apps with Angular 5 — Part two in a series on creating PWA’s with Angular. Part one here. Nastya Smirnova Holly Schinsky recommends Using CouchDB, PouchDB and Hoodie as a Stack for Progressive Web Apps Geoff Cox Chris Brandrick recommends Make the Web Great Again (aka My Mobile Browser Manifesto) — Kendall Hulet argues that most mobile browsers “are basically desktop experiences crammed onto a phone” and makes the case for ‘Cake’ a new in-beta mobile-first browser. Cake Technologies Holly Schinsky recommends Design Ideas for Mobile Menus — Ideas to help inspire a mobile navigation strategy. Emma Drews Hybrid Apps Holly Schinsky recommends Building a Cryptocurrency Price Tracker PWA in Ionic Josh Morony Native Development Peter Cooper recommends Building A Realtime Location App with ARKit, CoreLocation and Pusher — Learn how to combine the power of ARKit, CoreLocation and Pusher to create an amazing AR app. Esteban Herrera Chris Brandrick recommends Building the Coinbase Android App — Insight into the technical improvements made to Coinbase’s popular Android app (and why they were made). Johnny Chan Sponsored Best Practices for Architecting Highly Monitorable Applications — Is your application easy to monitor in production? Many apps are, but sadly, some are designed with observability as an afterthought. VividCortex Chris Brandrick recommends Single-Purpose or Multi-Purpose App – Which Option Is Better? — Learn the pros and cons of both single-purpose and multi-purpose mobile apps to decide whether or not to bundle features when developing your app. Ronnie Rios Brian Rinaldi recommends Flutter for React Native Devs in 30 Seconds — A super quick intro to Flutter, Google’s answer to React Native. Shawn Wang 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