Generally, mobile apps in Android, iOS, and Windows Phone are built using completely different programming languages; an Android app uses Java, an iOS app uses Objective-C, while a Windows Phone app uses .NET.
But now, anyone having the basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can build a mobile application. The key benefit of using web technology to build your app is Portability. Using a packager/compiler, like PhoneGap, developers will be able to port and install app on many different platforms.
There are many tools and framework that make this possible. They reduce the work to half to bridge the gap between web and mobile platforms. In this article, we’ll decided to cover the best of mobile app frameworks available in the market as of today.
1. Sencha Touch
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Instagram built a new video app for making short, action-packed video loops. Instagram doesn’t want its feed getting rancid, but doesn’t want to inflate its app with more characteristics either. So today it’s releasing Boomerang on iOS and Android.
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Facebook search now showing up results from all posts across entire social network you have access to. It will bring out or discover almost 2 trillion Facebook posts and will display those results for which you have enough permission to see.
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Apple is removing several of iOS apps from its store that collects user’s private data. Collecting personal information of user is in violence of company’s privacy policy.
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Today Dropbox has launched Paper, its new collaborating editing tool. Paper is currently in beta and the invitation to use ‘Paper’ is beginning to be sent. It is somewhat similar to Google Docs that presents its user a shared space to work on documents.
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