I work in a large-company that very recently instituted a mobile-computing team. After attending a talk about the mobile UX, I could identify an interesting challenges while choosing the general mobile application development direction.
Native vs. Web Applications - choosing the right path!
Native application are mobile applications native to the mobile OS. (Eg. iOS, Android). Web applications are applications written in HTML/JavaScript, accessible through a web-browser on the mobile device and respond to gestures just like native applications. It is important to choose between native and mobile applications because of the following reasons:
1. Native applications provide hardware interaction support like camera integration, gps integration etc., Web applications do not support this.
2. Web application code-base is easy to maintain since you can write once and deploy across all platforms.
When native applications are chosen since code needs to be written for each single platform and also maintaining a uniform UI/UX design is an additional challenge.
So choose wisely!
This blog is for the HCI 596 course being taught at Iowa State University through it's Human-Computer Interaction program.
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