#200: Google rolls out 'Mobile-First' indexing

Read this on the Web Mobile Dev Weekly March 28, 2018   #200 Peter Cooper recommends Google Now Rolling Out Mobile-First Indexing — While Google continues to have just one overall index, it’s now migrating sites that follow mobile best practices over to ‘mobile-first indexing’ where mobile versions of pages will be used for indexing and ranking. Google Chris Brandrick recommends Swift Rises Into Top 10 Programming Languages — Apple’s open-source Swift has just broken into the top 10 programming languages, swapping places with Objective-C. Roger Fingas Sponsored Webinar Recording: Let's Talk Appium — Missed our webinar? A recording is now available for you to catch up on our panel discussion on mobile automation, Appium, and AppiumConf. Join the mobile dev community and hear from more than a dozen industry experts on 6 April in London. AppiumConf Chris Brandrick recommends Privacy and Data Protection in Mobile Apps [PDF] — With GDPR on the horizon, this detailed study looks at the security aspects to consider for mobile apps. Maybe worth a look. ENISA Peter Cooper recommends Android Studio 3.1 Now Available — Plenty of new and updated features, including a C++ Profiler, Kotlin lint checks, emulator improvements & more. Google Peter Cooper recommends Apple Pulls App That Mined Cryptocurrency from Mac App Store — Before you get any ideas about replacing ads in your apps with background coin mining, Apple’s not a fan of the extra CPU usage imposed on users. MacRumors Mobile Web Holly Schinsky recommends Cache Recipes: Using the CacheStorage API — A combination of cacheing patterns using the CacheStorage API in JavaScript, with real world app use cases, examples and code snippets. Ritik Rishu Chris Brandrick recommends The Future of Mobile Web Design: Video Game Design and Storytelling? Suzanne Scacca Brian Rinaldi recommends Adding Favicons in a Multi-Browser Multi-Platform World — A refresher on what needs to be done to have a favicon show up everywhere you’d expect it to. Ruadhán O'Donoghue Brian Rinaldi recommends Building PWAs with Vue.js — An introduction to building and auditing PWAs using Vue.js. Brandon Satrom Hybrid Apps Brian Rinaldi recommends Ionic From Scratch: Working With Ionic Components — A look at how to use some of the most commonly used components in Ionic mobile apps. Tinashe Munyaka Chris Brandrick recommends How to Turn Your Site into a Mobile App with 7 Lines of JSON? — It leans on a toolkit called Jasonette. freeCodeCamp Brian Rinaldi recommends Learning Cordova While Rewriting An App Chen Hui Jing Native Development Brian Rinaldi recommends A Brief Intro to Using Vue.js with NativeScript — A beginners’ look at how to get started with NativeScript-Vue. Rob Lauer Peter Cooper recommends Better Mobile Application Testing with Charles Proxy — Charles Proxy is commonly used as a man-in-the-middle style proxy for debugging. Andrew Bardallis Brian Rinaldi recommends RecyclerListView: A High Performance ListView — For both React Native and the web, and created by Flipkart. Flipkart 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