Hybrid iPhone Applications
Increase your speed to market by building a hybrid application for iPhone
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Hybrid Applications
Last week we learned how to build “Native Web” applications for Android.
That was fun, but what exactly is a hybrid application?
A true native application is one that is written with the SDK of the target platform — Java for Android, Objective-C/Cocoa Touch for iPhone.
A relatively new term has become main-stream in the mobile space — the hybrid application.
No, this doesn’t mean we run it on soybeans or ethanol — this term has come to describe the “native web” approach where the application is written and compiled in the “SDK”, however the primary user interface is implemented in HTML, CSS and Javascript running inside of the platform’s “web” control. This is the web developer’s on-ramp to mobile application development and when used judiciously, can lower your time to market for the right kind of applications.
Last week was Android’s turn — this…
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