Monday, 8 September 2014

The Future of Mobile – HTML5 vs. Native Apps:

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Ever changing global market requirements over mobile applications are renovating the trends right from the ages of basic mobile set till today’s updated versions like native apps and html5 in smart phones. Enterprises play a smart role in being increasingly cautious about the impact of mobile devices and their applications. The enormous productivity these mobile application bring in have a revolutionary effect in deploying new applications with the old ones! And that’s where our discussion crops in i.e., the future of mobile – html5 apps vs. native apps.

The increasing mobile trend in global market has led to innovations to leverage the mobile technologies which indeed expands the profit line and horizons of enterprise business and this forms the key strategy of the business organizations. Which mobile technology in application is best? Html5 or native applications?? Read through to know more about html5 as well as native applications.

What are these native apps??

Native applications are basically software applications which are developed to run on specific platforms such as android. These are found on device home screen and are basically installed through application store, which is an inbuilt application in the device. These applications exploit the device features to the fullest for example they can make use of camera, GPS, accelerometer, compass, list of contacts, etc. the unique feature of native apps lies in the usage of device notification system enabling users to work offline! These applications can be purchased through distribution platforms such as apple app store, Google play etc and can be installed to smartphones, tablet and any other mobile devices.

Interesting features of native apps:

Interface – fast and interactive
Security – advanced and well maintained
Cost – expensive
Accessibility – works offline
Dedicated app store – will not work on other OS
Reliable over inbuilt mobile application.


What exactly is html5??

It’s a software application developed on html5 web technology. The special feature about html5 is, it can run on any platform and that makes it so unique and popular as a latest and everlasting trend setter in the customer oriented market of mobile devices. Html5 can run on various platforms like android, ios, Symbian or BlackBerry web applications. Html5 is going viral in current trend because developers feel easy and familiar to build applications with html5. Html5 gets more versatile and is easily affordable, that’s where the compatibility of single app over multiple platforms/ mobile operating system works! And the most important fact is not having a need to share your revenue with various platforms like apple or Google etc!

Features of html5:

Interface – Feels like a native application
Security – basic requirements are fulfilled
Cost – reasonable cost
Accessibility – requires internet connection but that doesn’t mean it will not work offline!!
Works on all operating system
Constantly improving with value added best features!
It totally depends on the requirements, the one best suits the content, resources like man, software’s etc, strategies and needs according to the publishers point of view. Right now native apps do dominate over html5 but it’s an exempted fact that html5 will conquer over native application in future with tremendously increasing market share!!

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