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Mobile Apps

Strategy

  • Mobile only

  • Mobile first

  • Mobile friendly - Responsive

  • Generally, a responsive web page is divided into rows and columns containing grids.

  • As the screen size gets smaller those grids rearrange themselves based on the screen size.

Two approaches to design responsive websites

  • Mobile first
  • web first

Responsive interface: frontend

Types of Mobile Apps

TypesTechnologyExample
Native AppKotlin for Android, Swift for IOS and Win.Linkedin, Tinder, Hike
Hybrid AppHTML5, CSS and JSReact Native  , Ionic  , Apache Cordova  ,
Flutter 
Bloomberg , Walmart , Uber Eats , and Discord .

References:

React Native at Airbnb 

Udacity abandoned React Native 

Facebook admitted counting big on HTML5 for their mobile app was a mistake 

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Progressive Web Apps 

The Apps running on Brower in the app.

Twitter PWA

It launched its progressive web app in 2017

this Google developers’ resource 

Mobile Backend as a Service(MBaaS)

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Providers: Google Firebase , AWS Amplify , and Parse .

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