Mobile Application Development: Web vs. Native.

The article discusses the advantages and drawbacks of programming mobile device applications (apps) using open source World Wide Web based code, or native code that is specific to each brand of smartphone or mobile computing device. The native code approach can produce apps which perform faster for...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 5; pp. 49 - 54
Autores principales:	CHARLAND, ANDRE, LEROUX, BRIAN
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery May2011
Materias:	Mobile apps Development of application software Programming languages Open source software Smartphones Mobile computing
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Sumario:	The article discusses the advantages and drawbacks of programming mobile device applications (apps) using open source World Wide Web based code, or native code that is specific to each brand of smartphone or mobile computing device. The native code approach can produce apps which perform faster for 3D (three-dimensional) or image processing tasks, but few software development firms have the resources to provide separate coding for multiple devices. Information on the various programming languages used for smartphones such the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android is provided.