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Why is customer service still so terrible in an age of wallets and mobile banking?

A move to reduce active offline banking in the country resulted in the extreme opposite, at least in the short term.




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For mobile wallet players, it's survival of the fittest, not the fastest

Bhavik Vasa, chief growth officer of ItzCash, contends the market opportunity is huge as 85% of the population is still dealing with cash.




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Mobile teams to check firecracker noise levels

The state government will send out teams to various districts and adjoining areas of Kolkata.




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PUBG Mobile India Series 2020: Prize money, date of tournament and registration details

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Video: Mobile Planet

For the past six years, I've presented a walkthrough of the latest mobile data and design insights and solutions I've been exploring at Google's Conversions event in Dublin. This year's video recording is now live.

This year's presentation is a data-informed big picture view of our mobile planet, how to design products for it, and why covering on-boarding, performance, touch gestures, and more.

All Annual Sessions:

Big thanks to the Conversions@Google team for making these sessions available to all.




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What Can Bike Sharing Apps Teach Us About Mobile On-boarding Design?

Given the proliferation of bike/scooter sharing services these days, I thought it would be interesting to compare the mobile app on-boarding experiences of the ones I could access. To do so, I went through the new customer flow for six of these services.

While the mobile on-boarding I experienced across these services looked really similar, the end result differed dramatically -from me abandoning the process to walking away a delighted customer. Understanding how product design impacted these outcomes is critical for anyone trying to grow a new mobile business.

Applying Design Patterns

My first encounter with bike sharing, appropriately, was in Amsterdam. I was outside the city center for a meeting and encountered a rack of Hello-Bikes. So why not bike back to my hotel in town? Here’s what happened when I tried.

Hello-Bike’s mobile on-boarding consists of several common patterns: a splash screen, a sign-up form, terms and conditions, and a tutorial. Though widely used, starting the design process off with these types of patterns often results in a flow that seems right in mock-ups or wireframes but fails to solve actual customer needs.

The designer thinks: “I know what an on-boarding flow is. It’s a splash screen, a sign-up screen and a tutorial people can swipe through.” The resulting customer experience in filling in form fields, scrolling through 17 screens of terms & conditions (yes, you are required to scroll through all of them), granting location permissions (because “background location-tracking is required”), and skipping through 6 tutorial screens featuring critical knowledge like “Welcome to Hello-Bike.”

After maneuvering through all this, I found out there were no docking stations in central Amsterdam because of government regulation. So I actually couldn’t use the Hello-Bike service to ride to my hotel. Starting the design process from the perspective of the customer would likely have revealed the importance of communicating these kinds of constraints up front. Starting by selecting design patterns would not.

Lessons Learned:
  • Set expectations appropriately, so potential customers don’t end a lengthy sign-up process in disappointment or frustration.
  • While convenient, design patterns are no substitute for understanding and designing with your customers & their goals top of mind.

Having Desktop Bias

While modern mobile devices have been around for over ten years, desktop devices have had at least 3x more time to influence and bias our approach to software design. That’s why it’s not surprising to see desktop design concepts permeate mobile apps. In the case of Jump’s mobile on-boarding, they are all over the place.

Following the obligatory splash screen, Jump animates through a series of safety tips calling out the unique features of electric bikes. Unfortunately, so many steps follow these tips that I can’t imagine anyone remembering them when they are finally allowed to ride one of Jump’s electric bikes.

Next up are a series of permission dialogs for access to Motion & Fitness and Location data. Both requests are accompanied by explanatory text that suggests Jump needs access to this information in order to “gather data about how electric bikes affect travel patterns.” Sounds like a good thing for Jump, but it’s not clear why customers should participate or even care.

This mindset permeates the rest of Jump’s on-boarding as well: choose one of our bike “networks”, select one of our plans, verify your phone number, pick a 7 character password with numbers and uppercase letters, agree to our terms and conditions, put money into one of our accounts, etc. After ten steps of doing things for Jump and seeing no progress toward actually riding a bike, I abandoned at the “Enter Credit Card” step.

Perhaps someone at Jump heard completion rates for forms go up when you place each question on a separate screen (I’ve seen no evidence of this), but the cumulative effect of going through a desktop-design influenced e-commerce checkout flow one step at a time on my phone was quite painful.

Lessons Learned:
  • Make sure your customers always feel like they are making progress toward their goals, not yours.
  • Desktop paradigms often aren’t a great fit for mobile. For instance, do you really need a checkout form? As we’ll see later, no.

Right Time, Right Place

After abandoning the bike-sharing process with both Hello-Bike and Jump, I had my first successful on-boarding with Spin. That’s not to say there wasn’t a lot of room for improvement. With mobile on-boarding it’s not just what we ask people to do it’s also when we ask them to do it. Spin starts off with a tutorial, which explains they are smart, I can park anywhere, and scanning a bike’s QR code will let me ride it.

Turns out that’s not entirely true as I needed to give them my email address, create a password, provide location permissions, and agree to three separate terms of service. It’s only after this gauntlet, that I’m actually able to scan the QR code on the bike in front of me. Why couldn’t we just have started the process there?

It is worth noting, however, that Spin provides much better explanations for its permission requests. When requesting location permissions, Hello-Bike told me: “background-location tracking is required” and Jump explained I could help them “gather data about how electric bikes affect travel patterns.” Spin, on the other hand, explained they use location to help me find pick-up and drop off points. They also explained they needed camera permissions so I can scan the QR code on a bike to unlock it.

After I did, my next step was to reload my Spin account, with the only reloading option being $5. This immediately felt odd as the bike ride itself was advertised as $1. So if I never rode another Spin bike again, they had 4 more dollars from me... hmmmm. On a positive note, Spin integrated with Apple Pay which meant I simply had to tap a button on the side of my phone to approve payment. No checkout forms, shopping carts, or credit card entry forms required. See? We can do things in a mobile-native vs. desktop way.

Following the payment process, I was greeted with a another tutorial (these things sure are popular huh? too bad most people skip through them). This time 4 screens told me about parking requirements. But wait… didn’t the first tutorial tell me I could park anywhere? Next Spin asked to send me notifications with no explanation as to why I should agree. So I didn’t.

Once I rode the bike and got to my destination, I received a ride summary that told me my ride was free. That’s much appreciated but it left me asking again… couldn’t we have started there?

Lessons Learned:
  • When you surface information to customers is critical. Spin could have told me my ride was free well before asking me to fill my account with a minimum of $5. And their Parking tutorial was probably more appropriate after my ride when parking my bike, not before it.
  • Get people to your core value as soon as possible, but not sooner. It took 7 steps before I was able to scan the bike in front of me and 9 more steps before I could actually ride it. Every step that keeps customers from experiencing what makes you great, leaves them wondering why you’re not.

Tricky, Tricky

By now, Ofo’s mobile on-boarding process will seem familiar: location and notification permission asks without any useful explanations, an up-front tutorial, a phone number verification flow, a camera permission ask, and more.

For many mobile apps, phone number verification can replace the need for more traditional desktop computer influenced sign-up process that require people to enter their first and last names, email addresses, passwords, and more into a series of form fields. When you’re on a phone, all you need to verify it’s you is your phone number.

With this simplified account creation process, Ofo could have had me on my way with a quick QR code scan. But instead I got a subscription service promotion that suggested I could try the service for free. After tapping the “Try it Free” button, however, I ended up on a Choose your Plan page. It was only when I used the small back arrows (tricky, tricky) that I made it back to the QR code unlock process which let me ride the Ofo bike in front of me with no charge.

Lessons Learned:
  • Mobile device capabilities allow us to rethink how people can accomplish tasks. For instance, instead of multiple step sign-up forms, a two step phone verification process can establish someone’s account much quicker by using what mobile devices do well.
  • While companies have revenue and growth needs, unclear flows and UI entrapments are not the way to build long-term customer loyalty and growth. You may trick some people into subscribing to your service but they won’t like you for it.

But Why?

Starting Bird’s mobile on-boarding gave me high hopes that I had finally found a streamlined customer-centric process that delivered on the promise of fast & easy last-mile transportation (or micro-mobility, if you must).

Things started out typically, a splash screen, an email form field, a location permission ask, but then moved right to scanning the QR code of the scooter in front of me and asking me to pay the $1 required to get started. Great, I thought… I’ll be riding in no time as I instantly made it through Apple Pay’s confirmation screen.

As a quick aside, integrating native payment platforms can really accelerate the payment process and increase conversion. Hotel Tonight saw a 26% increase in conversion with Apple Pay and Wish used A/B testing to uncover a 2X conversion increase when they added Apple Pay support. Turns out people do prefer to just look (Face ID) or tap (Touch ID) to pay for things on their phones instead of entering credit card or banking account details into mobile keyboards.

But back to Bird... I scanned the QR code and authorized Apple Pay. Time to ride right? Not quite. Next I was asked to scan the front of my drivers’ license with no explanation of why. Odd, but I assumed it was a legal/safety thing and despite having a lot of privacy reservations got through it. Or so I thought because after this I had to scan the back of my drivers’ license, scroll through all 15 screens of a rental agreement, and tick off 6 checkboxes saying I agreed to wear a helmet, not ride downhill, and was over 18 (can’t they get that from my driver’s license?).

Then it was back to scanning the QR code again, turning down notification permissions, and slogging through a 4 screen tutorial which ended with even more rules. The whole process left me feeling the legal department had taken over control of Bird’s first time customer experience: rental contracts, local rules, driver’s license verifications, etc. -really not in line with the company’s brand message of “enjoy the ride”. I left being intimated by it.

Lessons Learned:
  • Rules and regulations do exist but mobile on-boarding flows shouldn’t be driven by them. There’s effective ways to balance legal requirements and customer experience. Push hard to find them.
  • When asking for personal (especially highly personal) information, explain why. Even just a sentence about why I had to scan my driver’s license would have helped me immensely with Bird’s process.

Core Value, ASAP

By now, we’ve seen how very similar companies can end up with very different mobile on-boarding designs and results. So how can companies balance all the requirements and steps involved in bike-sharing and still deliver a great first-time experience? By always looking at things from the perspective of your customer. Which Lime, while not perfect, does.

Lime doesn’t bother with a splash screen showing you their logo as a first step. Instead they tell you upfront that they know why you’re here with a large headline stating: “Start Riding Now”. Awesome. That’s what I’ve been trying to do this whole time. On this same screen are two streamlined sign-up options: phone number verification (which makes use of native device capabilities) and Facebook -both aimed at getting you started right away.

Next, Lime takes the time to explain why they are asking for location permissions with the clearest copy we’ve seen in all these examples: “to find nearby bikes and scooters”. Sadly, they don’t apply this same level of clarification to the next permission ask for Notifications. But smartly, they use a double dialog solution and if you say no (which I did), they try again with more clarity.

It’s become almost standard practice to just ask for notification permissions up front in mobile apps because up to 40% of people will just give them to you. So many apps figure, why not ask? Lots of people will say no but we’ll get some people saying yes. Personally, I feel this is an opportunity to improve for Lime.

Ignoring the notifications prompt, the rest of Lime’s on-boarding process is fast and efficient: scan the QR code (once again with a clear explanation of why camera permissions are needed), authorize Apple Pay to pay for your ride. Lime doesn’t either bother to provide other payment options. They know the user experience and conversion benefits of Apple Pay and rely on it exclusively.

And… that’s it. I’m riding. No tutorial! Shocking I know, but they do offer one on the map screen if you’d like to learn more before riding. User choice, not company requirement.

In their mobile on-boarding, Lime deftly navigated a number of significant hurdles: account set-up/verification, location & camera permissions and payment -the minimum amount necessary to ride and nothing more. They did so by explaining how each of these steps got me closer to my goal of riding and worked hard to minimize their requirements, often relying on native mobile functionality to make things as fast and easy as possible.

Lessons Learned:
  • It’s not about you, it’s about your customer. Put your customer’s goals front and center in your mobile on-boarding process. It starts from the first screen (i.e. “Start Riding Now”)
  • Lean into mobile-native solutions: phone verification, integrated payments, and more.

More On On-boarding

For a deeper look into mobile on-boarding design, check out this 20 minute segment of my Mobile design and data presentation at Google Conversions this year:

You can also read Casey Winter’s article about on-boarding, which does a great job outlining the concept of getting people to your company’s core value as fast as possible, but not faster.




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The Reason for Micromobility

At the Micromobility conference in Richmond, CA Horace Dediu talked through why micromobility solutions need to exist and why they are set up to succeed today. Here’s my notes from his talk on The Reason for Micromobility:

  • The wealthiest nations have always been those with the highest rates of urbanization. Across the World, urbanization continues to increase in all countries and is expected to reach 50% in most countries by 2025. 6.7 billion people will live in cities by 2050. This is easy to predict so you can plan on it happening.
  • In cities, people are closer together and interact more. That’s how you create wealth and prosperity so it’s no wonder this trend will grow.
  • The World today consumes kilometers through land, air, and sea kilometers. 52 trillion kilometers are traveled per year across the globe. Half of these miles are in cars and low efficiency. In developed countries today (US and Europe), most trips are in personal vehicles like cars. Some of these car miles need to be reallocated.
  • The most common distance traveled by New York taxis is 1.4 miles. Less than 2% are 5 miles or more. 90% of all cars in trips are less than 20 miles. 162 billion trips per year in the United States are less than ten miles. Short trips consume more time and cost more money than long trips as well.
  • The addressable market for micromobility today is zero to five miles. That adds up to 4 trillion kilometers per year.
  • Cities are going to be the predominant place people live. Short trips are going to be the dominant type of travel. They’ll consume the most time and account for the most consumer spending.
  • There’s a remarkable consistency for modes of travel across the World. Cars are used the same in the US as in the UK and Switzerland. Scooters have a shorter average distance (.4 miles) than e-bikes (.8 miles). Each mode (of transportation) has a clear distance distribution and thereby unique characteristics.
  • We can begin to segment the transportation market by distance traveled. Regardless of vendors, modes of transportation cluster along similar usage models.
  • Given these usage model differences, can we move automobile mobility to micromobility? There’s currently a gap between average car distances and average scooter/bike distances. However we see cabs and powerful 2-wheelers beginning to cross this chasm.
  • There’s trillions of car kilometers that can potentially be moved to more efficient solutions. That’s the challenge for micromobility today.
  • The first experiments in micromobilty have been very successful in delivering many miles. Bird hit 10M rides in 320 days since launch. Lime hit 10M in 400 days. The slope of growth for these companies is steeper than for Uber and Lyft. 100M rides per year is the run rate for several of these companies.




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[ASAP] Low Concentrations of Tetrabromobisphenol A Disrupt Notch Signaling and Intestinal Development in <italic toggle="yes">in Vitro</italic> and <italic toggle="yes">in Vivo</italic> Models

Chemical Research in Toxicology
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The Stamp Mobile: A Crazy Money Marking Contraption

Ben Cohen wanted to take on the man. He enlisted the San Francisco maker community, and built a noisy, carnivalesque, vaudeville-style device, full of bright-colored wood and plastic and metal, to drive around the country and stamp slogans on money.




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App Pack | The Best Mobile Apps for Watching the Super Bowl

Load up your phone with some crucial apps that'll help you better enjoy the biggest game of the year.




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App Pack | The Best Mobile Apps for Skiing and Snowboarding

Hit the slopes with these apps that give you snow forecasts, buddy tracking, and resort maps all at your fingertips.




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These Autonomous Wheelchairs Are the Future of Mobility

At MIT, they are creating an autonomous wheelchair that can navigate streets and buildings to allow people with limited mobility to travel without having to worry about obstructions or other hazards.




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Flat, fluid, and fast [electronic resource] : harness the talent mobility revolution to drive employee engagement, accelerate innovation, and unleash growth / Brynne Kennedy

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Structural geometry of mobile belts of the Indian Subcontinent Tapas Kumar Biswal, Sumit Kumar Ray, Bernhard Grasemann, editors

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Dimensional Anisotropic Graphene with High Mobility and High On-Off Ratio in three-terminal RRAM device

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00152J, Research Article
Bo Liu, Han Hsiang Tai, Hanyuan Liang, En-Yan Zheng, Mamina Sahoo, Chih-Hsien Hsu, Tsung Cheng Chen, Ching-An Huang, Jer-Chyi Wang, Tuo-Hung Hou, Chao-Sung Lai
In the past decade, graphene has aroused worldwide academic passion in electronic community, due to its unique two dimensional lattice structure and high mobility properties. Meanwhile, the utilization of graphene...
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Gaming in social, locative, and mobile media / Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson

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Social, casual and mobile games: the changing gaming landscape / edited by Tama Leaver and Michele Willson

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Mobile gaming in Asia: politics, culture and emerging technologies / Dal Yong Jin, editor

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Social, casual and mobile games: the changing gaming landscape / edited by Tama Leaver, Michele Willson

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Cross over to HTML5 game development: use your programming experience to create mobile games / Zarrar Chishti

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Location-based mobile games: design perspectives / Davide Spallazzo, Ilaria Mariani

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Private mobile phones restored in Kashmir; situation remains calm




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Web Tools #353 - Vue Tools, Databases, Mobile Tools

Web Tools Weekly

Issue #353 • April 23, 2020

The following intro is a paid product review for AnnounceKit, a hosted changelog or product update service that provides a communication channel between your product and end-users.

What's the best way to inform your users that your product has been updated? This is important especially with web apps that are able to update behind the scenes and users are often left in the dark on what's new.

Of course, if a user wants to know what's new, they can check GitHub or look for the product's social media channels. But how much better if your product's updates are integrated into the web app itself. That's where AnnounceKit comes in.

 
AnnounceKit: A product updates and changelog service


AnnounceKit allows you to add posts that are hosted at a location like "changelog.example.com". That location holds a series of updates that itemize your product's changes, and they're searchable and filterable by category, as shown in the following single post example:

 
A single product update, categorized and filterable
 

Posts can be created using a WYSIWYG editor that includes ability to add styles, embed video, and an option to label your post according to some predefined categories:

 
AnnounceKit's WYSIWYG editor for posts
 

You can integrate different types of widgets within your app to notify users of changes and updates. The widgets point to your posts, as shown above. One of the widgets offered is the animated Count Badge Widget that triggers a dropdown on click:

 
AnnounceKit's Count Badge Widget


There's also a Sidebar Widget that opens when the user clicks something like a "What's New" link:

 
AnnounceKit's Sidebar Widget
 

In addition, there's a widget you can embed directly into a page (like the sidebar or footer of your app), displaying product updates in blog list format:

 
AnnounceKit's Embed Widget
 

AnnounceKit also gives you the ability to integrate with popular apps you already use like GitHub, Slack, Twitter, and lots more. These integrations allow you to quickly and easily push out product announcements and changes.

 
AnnounceKit integrates with apps you already use
 

Other features available in AnnounceKit include the ability to:
 

  • Collect user feedback about updates
  • Enable users to sign up for email notifications on changes
  • Send different updates to different users via Segmentation
  • Publish in multiple languages
  • And lots more

Because I write this newsletter, I deal with a lot of tool websites. And I can tell you from experience that it's often difficult to find out when a product was last updated and what those updates were added. A service like AnnounceKit removes that hurdle so everyone is up to date and the updates are easy to find and integrated into your application.

AnnounceKit offers a 30-day trial for the highest tier as well as a free-forever version that's useful for trying out the basics, or if you don't need any of the advanced features.

As a promotion for this issue, AnnounceKit is offering 20% off their "Startup" plan. Just use discount code WEBTOOLSWEEKLY. So check out AnnounceKit if you're in the market for an easy-to-integrate changelog for your product or service.
 

Now on to this week's tools!
 

Vue Tools

vue-agile
A carousel component for Vue inspired by the Slick carousel. Simple, touch-friendly, and no other dependencies.

Vue Dynamic Forms
An easy way to dynamically create reactive forms in Vue based on varying business and regulatory requirements of your site or app.

vue-mention
A @mention and #hashtag component for inputs and textareas.

Pdfvuer
Now at version 1.5. A PDF viewer for Vue using Mozilla's PDF.js.

Vue I18n
An internationalization plugin for Vue with a simple API and includes support for translation and localization (e.g. pluralization, number, date/time, etc).

@xstate/vue
Vue version of XState, a library for creating, interpreting, and executing finite state machines and statecharts.

swrv
Stale-while-revalidate data fetching for Vue.

vue-lazy-hydration
A renderless Vue.js component to improve estimated input latency and time to interactive of server-side rendered Vue applications.

vue-adaptive-utils
Inspired by react-adaptive-hooks, a collection of Vue 3.0 composition API functions and utilities to allow your apps to adapt your user's Network conditions,  battery status, etc.

Vue Formulate
The easiest way to build forms using Vue. Field validation, file uploads, form generation, help text, error messages, placeholders and more.

JSON, Databases, GraphQL, etc.

Advanced React & GraphQL by Wes Bos is 50% Off!
The master package includes 68 HD videos, part of 10 modules – and updates to the course are free forever.   promoted 

Falcon
A free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization. Supports connecting to RedShift, MySQL, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, Impala, MS SQL, Oracle, SQLite, and more.

jsonbox.io
Now at version 2+. Free HTTP-based JSON storage.

Verify JSON
Library to verify JSON structure easily using a lightweight JSON schema syntax.

TerminusDB
A database built for data people. A model-driven graph database designed specifically for the web.

IndexedDB with Usability
Now at version 5+. A tiny library that mostly mirrors the IndexedDB API, but with small improvements that make a big difference to usability.

graphql-api-starter
A starter kit for projects using TypeScript, Express.js, and Apollo GraphQL.

Vendure
A modern, headless GraphQL-based e-commerce framework built with TypeScript and Node.

gqless
A GraphQL client without queries. Auto-generates GraphQL queries based on the data your application consumes.

heliosRX
A front-end Object-Relational Mapping layer for reactive real-time web applications using Firebase Realtime Database.

Mobile Tools and React Native

ES6 for Everyone by Wes Bos is 50% Off!
The master package includes 77 HD videos, part of 21 modules – and updates to the course are free forever.   promoted 

hamburger-react
Animated hamburger menu icons for React. CSS-driven transitions, created to be as elegant and performant as possible.

react-native-design-system
A set of design rules and component library that lets you prototype faster with easy to use cross-platform components.

Draftbit
Early access. Build your app, visually. Create, customize, and launch mobile apps all from your browser. Source code included.

react-native-mmkv-storage
An efficient, small and encrypted mobile key-value storage framework for React Native.

Pep
Turn your website into a fast, installable Progressive Web App (PWA) instantly.

StorePreviewer
Preview what your mobile app will look like in the iOS App Store. Just type the details and see the live preview.

React Native Web Template
Template project for creating iOS, Android, and Web apps with React Native.

Hyperview
A new hypermedia format and React Native client for developing server-driven mobile apps.

Bravo Studio
Turn Figma prototypes into native iOS and Android apps instantly with no code.

React Native Material UI
Highly customizable Material Design components for React Native.

A Tweet for Thought

Here's a good thread from Fran Swaine on how to avoid burnout while freelancing.
 

Send Me Your Tools!

Made something? Send links via Direct Message on Twitter @WebToolsWeekly (details here). No tutorials or articles, please. If you have any suggestions for improvement or corrections, feel free to reply to this email.
 

Before I Go...

Phuoc Nguyen, who I featured a few issues back with his great project called HTML DOM, has built another great project called 1loc – a categorized list of vanilla JavaScript one-liners.

Thanks to everyone for subscribing and reading!

Keep tooling,
Louis
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Oppo to resume mobile production at 30% capacity

The company has also started sales of mobile phones through Amazon, Flipkart and retail stores in permitted areas.




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Updated: Gauhati High Court orders Assam Govt to restore mobile Internet services

The Gauhati High Court has ordered Assam Govt to restore mobile Internet services by 5 PM today. News Agency PTI tweeted about the order. Gauhati HC directs Assam govt to restore mobile internet services by 5pm — Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) December 19, 2019 Another news agency ANI tweeted that mobile internet services will […]

The post Updated: Gauhati High Court orders Assam Govt to restore mobile Internet services appeared first on TIMES OF ASSAM by Times of Assam Bureau.




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Prediction of high carrier mobility for a novel two-dimensional semiconductor of BC6N: first principles calculations

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5882-5893
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00549E, Paper
Li-Bin Shi, Mei Yang, Shuo Cao, Qi You, Ya-Jing Zhang, Meng Qi, Kai-Cheng Zhang, Ping Qian
First principles calculations are performed to predict phonon-limited carrier mobility for a novel graphene-like semiconductor with BC6N stoichiometry.
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Ahab's rolling sea: a natural history of Moby-Dick / Richard J. King

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Race and upward mobility: seeking, gatekeeping, and other class strategies in postwar America / Elda María Román

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Antibacterials. Jed F. Fisher, Shahriar Mobashery, Marvin J. Miller, editors ; with contributions by C.J. Balibar [and more]

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Why you should learn Mobile Web Development

When I've decided to define 3 courses and levels, I had to include the Mobile Web Development one.
When I tell developers or random folks about such course, they ask me:
"why? come on, I know Web, how different could that be? what's the point?"

Yet Most Websites Still Fail

For instance, I've tried to book a flight yesterday from my Android 5 daily phone which is not even in developer mode and I use the default Chrome browser (I know, shocking, but you gotta test what real world users will see!).
You can see I couldn't do it via this video:

Not That Site Only!

I'm pretty sure they will fix this problem at speed light, and while same operation worked on an iOS based device, it's shocking even most popular or famous websites can fail that bad at very most basic tasks like scrolling!

Few developers still believe Mobile Web is about bringing in some Mobile library and that's it. The amount of different things happening there, different surfing paradigms, and different, really, everything, is the most under-estimated problem we have these days.

And the best part everyone is missing is that you don't need to add libraries on Mobile Web, most likely you need to drop them!

Do You Trust The App?

Every business is apparently laughing at HTML5 and Mobile, offering an App for something they cannot even make it work on a browser.
Apps, are privileged pieces of software so I ask you one thing: why do you trust apps when the easier to develop Web counterpart doesn't even work?

As Summary

You don't have to come to my courses if you think you don't need it, but if you don't test on mobile, you can also stop right now offering poor alternatives nobody cares 'cause nothing works there anyway.
But please, stop saying that HTML5 or the Mobile Web platform is the problem ... it's simply NOT!




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Portable health records in a mobile society Egondu R. Onyejekwe, Jon Rokne, Cory L. Hill, editors

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Modeling and control of a tracked mobile robot for pipeline inspection / Michał Ciszewski, Mariusz Giergiel, Tomasz Buratowski, Piotr Małka

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[ASAP] Identification and Mobilization of a Cryptic Antibiotic Biosynthesis Gene Locus from a Human-Pathogenic <italic toggle="yes">Nocardia</italic> Isolate

ACS Chemical Biology
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Skilled labor mobility and migration: challenges and opportunities for the ASEAN economic community / edited by Elisabetta Gentile

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Labour Lines and Colonial Power: Indigenous and Pacific Islander Labour Mobility in Australia.

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Mobilities of the highly skilled towards Switzerland: the role of intermediaries in defining "wanted immigrants" / Laure Sandoz

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Collective mobilization in changing conditions: worker collectivity in a turbulent age / Jonas Axelsson, Jan Ch. Karlsson, Egil J. Skorstad

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A global history of runaways: workers, mobility, and capitalism 1600-1850 / edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, Matthias van Rossum

Dewey Library - HD5717.G57 2019




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Mobile storytelling exciting, economical: Kiran Rao

Filmmaker Kiran Rao, who has directed two 10-second short films for Facebook India, says shooting a film by a mobile camera and in a vertical frame makes storytelling exciting and inexpensive, especially for youngsters.




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Digital phenotyping and mobile sensing: new developments in psychoinformatics / Harald Baumeister, Christian Montag, editors

Online Resource




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[ASAP] A New Portable Instrument for Online Measurements of Formaldehyde: From Ambient to Mobile Emission Sources

Environmental Science & Technology Letters
DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00169




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[ASAP] Mobile Ions in Composite Solids

Chemical Reviews
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00760




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Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications [electronic journal].

IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated




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Proceedings Fourth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications [electronic journal].

IEEE Computer Society




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Proceedings Fifth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications [electronic journal].

IEEE Computer Society




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Mobile genetic elements [electronic journal].

Austin, TX : Landes Bioscience




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Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, IEEE Workshop on [electronic journal].

IEEE Computer Society




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Mobile Apps Industry Profile: Scandinavia [electronic journal].

Marketline




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Mobile Apps Industry Profile: Indonesia [electronic journal].

Marketline