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 ...

React Native, Facebook’s framework for building native mobile apps, is to be rearchitected for flexibility and mproved integration with native infrastructure. The framework, which uses JavaScript and ...

Glimmer, a library for building mobile applications that arose out of the Ember.js front-end JavaScript stack, will use custom bytecode to improve web application loading on mobile devices. The ...

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 ...