Building Mobile Web Apps the Right Way: Tips and Techniques

Mobile web apps are useful alternatives to native apps for mobile devices. These days, Android-based products and iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad all come packed with fantastic mobile browsers (Mobile Chrome and Mobile Safari respectively), and Opera fans can install their preferred browser, too. From a desktop point of view, these products make browsing just about the most pleasurable experience possible. CSS3 transitions, beautifully crafted HTML5 and embellishments mean their users get the highest possible browsing experience (assuming the content being viewed has been crafted with care and consideration). Their mobile counterparts equally do not disappoint. Fast-loading JavaScript, combined with equally impressive CSS3 and HTML rendering mean that your mobile browser can provide you with as rich an experience as a native app. Being mobile and Web-based, there are obviously going to be performance concerns. Mobile Web App vs. Mobile as a Platform Desktop vs. Keep File Sizes Small

Pretenders: Why mobile Web apps should stop trying to act like native apps « cvil.ly There are a lot of great reasons to build a mobile Web app just as there are a lot of great reasons to build any Web app and I’m certainly not here to continue the great Web versus native app debate. It’s not native versus Web, it’s both and it depends on your situation. But what I’m here to talk about are the pretenders. Pretenders are mobile Web apps that try to replicate the native experience. You’ve no doubt seen Web apps with iPhone-style back buttons, awkward attempts at implementing gestures, laggy scrolling and the like. Pretenders have problems They don’t meet user expectations Users of pretender apps get an experience that falls squarely in the uncanny valley — it looks like a native app, but something isn’t quite right. They are a huge drain on development resources Development teams can spend countless hours trying to make the Web act native. Embrace the Web If you’ve decided to deliver your app via the Web, you should embrace the capabilities and constraints of the Web.

Why Mobile Apps Will Soon be Dead It’s hard to imagine Apple’s App store – 50 million users, 400,000 apps, 10 billion downloads – being threatened with extinction, but it’s not as if Tyrannosaurus Rex had a clue its demise was imminent until the process was well underway, either. We know that empires crumble: what’s interesting is how. Right now pundits are focused on the threat of Android. Apple is still shipping plenty of iPhones, but even Steve Jobs must recognize that if his were a Roman empire, the numberless device manufacturers selling Android devices are the metaphorical barbarians at the gates. The real threat are web apps. Steve Jobs thought web apps were the future too, in 2008 when he announced that the iPhone would have plenty of apps – all of them available through the browser. Here’s how Brian Kennish, formerly an engineer at Google and now something of a punk-rock privacy-protecting developer, put it in a recent email: “One word: distribution.

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