Mobile Webapp Tutorial

Writing apps in Web code is awesome, but it's not always necessarily the best approach. One day maybe all apps will be written with web code, but for now even huge companies that have gone with web code written applications are going native because of a sluggish UI and overall poor performance.

Check out this article where facebook started with HTML5 apps, but is now going native. http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/13/facebook-android-faster/

There is definitely room for both native apps and web written apps.

Check out this quote by Mark Zuckerberg about HTML5:

“When I’m introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native… because it just wasn’t there. And it’s not that HTML5 is bad. I’m actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that’s interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.”

If you are really set on developing applications with HTML, CSS and Javascript then just go to http://phonegap.com/

Then come back to Team Treehouse to learn about... HTML... CSS... and... Javascript

Native app is good as long as you do some minor changes everytime and run them. If you have a heavy application which needs to be deployed as a build,it is wise to use as web app.I have seen both.Mostly web app lacks performance issues with the UI.Also, you need to be good in writing and calling the web-services which I thought of and looking forward to learn from Treehouse.

Best, Prabal

If you are a gold member there's the HTML5 for Mobile Web Apps course here on Treehouse.