This is my second attempt to tackle the formidable mobile world head on. This is in contrast from the previous post, as I now write a post exclusively from the device ecosystem viewpoint, as opposed to the server side realm. Mobile has manifested itself as the platform that’s taking not just the consumer world by storm, but the intensity of internet traffic it generates towards websites and also alongside, raking revenues that has subdued the popularity of desktop to a significant extent. If you are not getting onto the mobile bandwagon, you are left behind.
What does future hold for us?
There was and is, a spate of native applications that has its strengths like leveraging the hardware APIs, faster graphics and responsive UI, storing offline data locally and hence facilitating operation with no web connectivity, application store discoverability/monetization etc. However armed with the diversity of browsers, devices generate massive traffic towards the desktop intended websites, which supports cross platform. Here is where dichotomy of native and HTML5 web applications dovetailed to form a new breed called as-
“Hybrid Mobile Apps” – which is basically the holy union between the native applications(which are typically developed using high level language [JAVA/C#/Objective C] and run on top of the device OS kernel) and HTML5 web applications. This is done my dropping or wrapping the HTML5 + JavaScript + CSS code into a native container and allowed to deploy using application store into the device, which unleashes the best of both worlds. A popular platform that allows realizing the same is “PhoneGap/Cordova”
Design Nutcracker 