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It's an interesting service, however, I feel like this would create apps that don't native on the intended operating system and are kind of bland. iOS's native
by andygcook 15y ago
It's an interesting service, however, I feel like this would create apps that don't native on the intended operating system and are kind of bland.
iOS's native functions and hardware operate much differently from Android's, which is completely different from Windows Phone. Android has an hardware based back button, and the iPhone doesn't, which means you'd have a different UI for the iPhone and Android version (back button in top left on iPhone, no back button on Android). The iPhone has front facing camera which can be incorporated into apps, where as most Android phones don't have a front cam yet.
I'm sure they'll figure out the issues pretty quickly though.
- jamesbrady 15y agoThanks Andy - yep, we're constantly balancing two desires: the desire to expose every last shiny detail of the native platform on one hand, and the desire for consistency across platforms on the other. The list of amazing, engaging, good-looking apps implemented in HTML5 is long, and growing. Personally, I think performance was the biggest hurdle in the race to make HTML5 look "as good as native", and rendering and JS execution speed is incredible now - and getting even better!
- dreamdu5t 15y agoList 5 of these "engaging, good-looking apps implemented in HTML5."