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Rob Tarr
February 25, 2014
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Blur The Lines - Native Feeling Web Apps
Some tips for writing web apps that feel like part of the native ecosystem
Rob Tarr
February 25, 2014
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Transcript
Rob Tarr Blur the Lines: Write Web Apps That Feel
Native
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native What
are we talking about?
Building Native Web Apps
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native Who’s
Your Audience?
Who’s Your Audience?
There are some advantages to a native app
A few native app cons ‣ Limited to certain devices
- iOS vs. Android ‣ Approval processes ‣ Delay in pushing out updates ‣ Some users don’t upgrade ‣ iOS no Nitro JavaScript engine
A few web app cons ‣ Limited access to APIs
‣ Publicity ‣ Harder to monetize
Building Native Web Apps
Building Native Web Apps http://bit.ly/1oDzPLW How to create a web
app that looks like a iOS7 native app
Building Native Web Apps ‣ Style ‣ Behavior ‣ Compatibility
http://bit.ly/1oDzPLW
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native Typography
iOS7 & Apple System Fonts
iOS7 & Apple System Fonts -apple-system-body -apple-system-caption1 -apple-system-caption2 -apple-system-footnote -apple-system-headline
-apple-system-short-body -apple-system-short-caption1 -apple-system-short-footnote -apple-system-short-headline -apple-system-short-subheadline bit.ly/1oDSoiS font: {
iOS7 & Apple System Fonts <div style="font:-apple-system-headline"> <div style="font-size:2em">This is
the headline…</div> </div>
Safari Chrome
Safari Chrome <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app- capable" content="yes">
Safari Chrome <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status- bar-style" content=“black-translucent">
Safari Web Content Guide Configuring Web Applications bit.ly/1cMoCDB
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native Images
Home Screen Icons
Home Screen Icons <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="icon.png"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="/icon-144x144.png">
! <meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#73c5d3"> <meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="icon.png"> bit.ly/1hnz18G
SVGs ‣ Inline ‣ Backgrounds ‣ Data URIs ‣ Animations
SVG Animations
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native Animations
Animations
Navigation Animations www.thepetedesign.com/demos/jquery_wheelmenu_demo.html
Navigation Animations www.thepetedesign.com/demos/jquery_wheelmenu_demo.html
Animations easings.net
Navigation Animations www.snowbird.com
Animations forecast.io
Animations forecast.io
Matching ‣ http://jeremyckahn.github.io/stylie/ ‣ http://matthewlein.com/ceaser/ ‣ http://easings.net/
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native Behavior
fastclick ...mobile browsers will wait approximately 300ms from the time
that you tap the button to fire the click event. The reason for this is that the browser is waiting to see if you are actually performing a double tap. ! https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick
fastclick playthreeve.com
fastclick
fastclick
fastclick
fastclick
dragging
dragging http://eightmedia.github.io/hammer.js/
Linking to Native Apps href=“tel:19374010915” href=“facetime:19374010915” ! href=“http://maps.apple.com? q=123+Webster+St.,+Dayton,+OH +45402”
http://bit.ly/1j2MswD
keyboards http://bit.ly/1fJluWA
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native Performance
Performance bit.ly/1mu9bTz Simple explanation: ! The Nitro Javascript engine compiles
your code into native ARM code
Performance bit.ly/1mu9bTz Apps saved to the iOS home screen don’t
get the benefits of the Nitro JavaScript engine. BUSTED
Performance Application Cache bit.ly/1bHGKAh bit.ly/1hs9ifb Service Workers mzl.la/1fkPWWa bit.ly/1edzjjz
Performance Write really good code.
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native New
APIs
Geolocation JavaScript APIs
Battery JavaScript APIs http://www.smartjava.org/examples/webapi-battery/
Camera JavaScript APIs <input type=“file”> bit.ly/1o3Lu3w
JavaScript APIs shinydemos.com/warholiser/
Accelerometer JavaScript APIs isthisanearthquake.com
JavaScript APIs https://developers.inkfilepicker.com/docs/web/
In-App Purchases http://bit.ly/1fEcJgA
In-App Purchases http://bit.ly/1fEcJgA
In-App Purchases http://bit.ly/1fEcJgA
Building Native Web Apps
THANKS! @robtarr
[email protected]