Google’s Area 120 has released a new smartphone app designed to teach beginners how to write code. It’s called Grasshopper, and it kind of feels like Duolingo for coding. While Duolingo offers short ...

The advantages of developing a mobile application on a native platform are many, but they are outweighed by being limited to one platform, usually either iOS or Android, according to veteran mobile ...

Facing a crucible of providing more sophisticated apps in shorter cycles, mobile front-end developers will be forced to rely on composition -- using prebuilt code components instead of coding all ...

The highly anticipated React Native project from Facebook has been officially open sourced and released, possibly heralding a sea wave change in mobile app UI development practices. The new project ...

A few days ago, developer Felix Krause shared a detailed report on how mobile apps can use their own in-app web browser to track user data. Now Krause is back with a new tool that lets anyone see ...

A smartphone or tablet application that is programmed like a Web page rather than a mobile app. Hybrid mobile apps are coded in Web languages such as HTML and JavaScript rather than Swift (Apple) and ...

Javascript is a very popular scripting language used in almost all web applications. Due to the fast technological growth, you can now download and run Javascript code right on your mobile device, ...

The JavaScript performance improvements that accompany iOS 4.3—boosting raw performance as much as 2.5x—don’t appear to carry over to in-app browsers or Web apps saved to the home screen. Another bug ...