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Mobile applications: Mobile or Desktop App? How should I start?
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Joy Broto Nath , Global Corporate Trainer & Strategist answered:

Identifying your requirements is one of the most essential best practices in app development, mobile or otherwise. Carefully research the targeted capabilities to determine if they are achievable in your mobile web app. Another common gotcha for mobile web app developer newbies is to assume that web-based code for a desktop browser will work “as is” in a mobile browser. The HTML5 tag’s auto play functionality, for example, does not work on mobile browsers. Similarly, the CSS transition and opacity properties are not supported in most mobile browsers nowadays. You will also have problems with some web API methods on a mobile platform, such as the SoundCloud music streaming API that requires Adobe Flash which is not supported on most mobile devices. A common gotcha for mobile web app developer newbies is to ass-u-me that web-based code for a desktop browser will work “as is” in a mobile browser. A particularly complicating factor in mobile web application development is that the lifespan of mobile devices tends to be much shorter than that of desktop displays. These shorter device life spans, accompanied by constant releases of new mobile devices and technologies, yield an ever-changing landscape of to-be-targeted devices. For a mobile web app, it is important to be aware that a Retina display makes low resolution images look fuzzy and pixelation can occur. The best app development solution in these cases is to have the server recognize that the request is coming from a Retina device and to then provide an alternate higher resolution image to the client. For example, in iOS 6 and above, there is no support for the navigator getUserMedia functionality since the camera is only accessible through native apps. Two great resources for checking what is supported on specific devices and browsers are caniuse.com and html5test.com. It’s unrealistic to expect that transfers will always be done over a WiFi network, and you should know that 60% of mobile web users say they expect a site to load on their mobile phone in 3 seconds or less . 60% of mobile web users say they expect a site to load on their mobile phone in 3 seconds or less.
Unless you have a highly peculiar set of requirements, it is likely that use of one of these frameworks will reduce the level-of-effort to design and implement your mobile web application. Just enter the URL for your application, select the browser, version, and operating system, and you will get the emulated view of your site in that environment. Native apps are written in platform specific languages using platform APIs, like Java or Kotlin for Android, and Objective C or Swift for iOS. A mobile web application is a website optimized to be used on a mobile.
Besides if you do have any questions give me a call: https://clarity.fm/joy-brotonath

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