CategoryPWA

February 9, 2018 — Deciding to build a PWA or a native app should be based on the needs of the specific project, not hype. With Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) encroaching on native development’s turf, Aaron Gustafson thought this might be a good time to step back and take stock of these two approaches to building products. In this article, Aaron walks you through the pros and cons of each approach to help you arrive at an informed decision. Read more…

November 27, 2017 — Users couldn’t care less about whether a technology is native, an installed web app or a website. What makes users engage and makes shoppers convert is really the experience itself. In this article, Mitch Lenton takes a closer look at PWAs on Android devices and explains how we can pave the way for a new era of browserless web browsing. Read more…

May 29, 2017 — Mad Libs is a game in which one player prompts others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story, before reading the story aloud. In this article, Tom Hudson will use this game to show you how to build your own action for Google Home. He’s detailed steps to build a custom mad lib action, and He’ll explain why certain steps are important and ultimately how they fit into the voice services world. After this exercise, you will better understand voice services and begin your path to programming actions for Google Home. Read more…

December 8, 2016 — Even though the new Service Worker API allows you to cache away all of your website’s assets for an almost instant subsequent load, like when meeting someone new, the first impression is what counts. If the first load takes more than 3 seconds, more than 53% of all users will drop off. There are ways to mitigate this problem of a slow first load, but you can only get so far with this strategy, and you have to employ, or be, a front-end performance wizard. So, if an almost instant first load is fundamentally at odds with a native-like app experience, what can we do? In this article, Paul Bakaus will show you the way. Read more…

September 5, 2016 — Not enough people know about the major advantages of web apps. They can replace all of the functions of native apps and websites at once. In this article, Ada Rose Cannon will show you some do’s and dont’s on how to make a progressive web app, as well as resources for further research. She’ll also go into the various components and support issues surrounding web apps. Although not every browser is friendly to them, there are still some compelling reasons to learn more about this technology. Read more…