But the larger reality remains: Facebook wants
this HTML5 app platform to succeed so the mobile world is not fully controlled by those two companies.
We're a do - it - yourself iPhone, iPad, Android &
HTML5 app platform that allows any small business to simultaneously create, edit, and manage mobile apps without any programming knowledge needed.
Not exact matches
For one, those companies would have to use whatever development
platforms are needed to make those
apps possible en masse; before, they proposed only having to build the software if a streaming device allowed for web
apps made with
HTML5.
Certain
HTML5 apps that run across
platforms can carry JavaScript attack codes that your smartphone will happily execute.
Rather than using
apps, we made a decision to use
HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript as a
platform.
Phonegap is an open source
platform that allows you to use
HTML5 and Javascript to build
apps for iPhone, Android, Symbian, Palm and Microsoft Mobile.
Cooper said the new BlackBerry WebWorks
app platform merges the simplicity of
HTML5 with the power of BlackBerry services, true multitasking, true push technology and more.
From their website: «AppMakr is a do - it - yourself
app creation
platform that lets anyone make your own iPhone
apps, Android
apps and
HTML5 mobile formatted websites — with no coding required.»
Rather, Visionect, a Slovenian startup would like to call its e-ink based device as a
platform that is designed to make it convenient for users to develop e-ink based
apps based on
HTML5, CSS and Javascript easily.
About Graphicly Graphicly is a cutting - edge entertainment and digital content publishing
platform designed to deliver what authors and publishers need to share their work with audiences across all digital channels, including the Apple iPhone and iPad (plus Newsstand); eBook stores including Amazon Kindle, Kobo and Apple iBooks; Android devices including the Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet and Color and the Amazon Kindle Fire; websites and blogs through an industry leading
HTML5 web
app; and the only way to read, share and sell books on Facebook.
PressReader who has had native
apps on the Blackberry
platform since the Playbook has also embraced
HTML5.
While our long term hope would be to have one «mobile
app» across all
platforms, in the medium term i expect we will still have to maintain a number of different codebases — even if elements of them converge to create «hybrid»
apps — namely native
apps containing
HTML5 functionality, alongside a pure
HTML5 access mechanism.
With the development of the web
app, XinXii.com is the first eBook
platform worldwide to use the new options presented by
HTML5.»
What do you think the industry needs to do to decide on a future unified
platform, such as EPUB3,
Apps, or
HTML5?
Honestly, if you had the choice of spending a copious amount of money updating 6
apps with a new feature, or updating a single
HTML5 platform, which would you choose?
Content distributed via the Graphicly
platform is available across multiple channels, including the Apple iPhone, iPad, and iOS Newsstand; eBook stores including Amazon Kindle, Kobo and Apple iBooks as eBooks and enhanced eBooks; Android devices, including the Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color and the Amazon Kindle Fire; and an industry - leading
HTML5 web
app allowing for publishing to any website or blog.
With the development of the
HTML5 app, Kobo will continue to provide the most optimized experience for iOS users and users on other Kobo
platforms.
Kobo's move to provide an
HTML5 web
app will offer additional convenience to consumers and deliver a rich and seamless experience to Kobo
app users across
platforms, including Android, RIM, and HP WebOS.
«Kobo believes in providing an open
platform for users, and our
HTML5 development will support the company's current
app strategy to reach a broader base of users worldwide,» said Michael Serbinis, CEO, Kobo.
Whether they're writing Java
apps, native
apps, using RIM's WebWorks kit to create
HTML5 - based
apps, repackaging Android
apps for the upcoming Android emulator, or using one of the third - party
app frameworks, ultimately developers can make money on the BlackBerry
platform, and that's going to draw more
apps, Saunders said.
A free ebook by Kinvey that help organisations to understand which
platform to choose business mobile
app: Native,
HTML5 or Hybrid.
Even Google fell at the last hurdle, releasing native ebook reading
apps for Apple and Android
platforms last year rather than
HTML5 web
apps for its Google Ebooks system.
Developers who want to support both existing smartphones (running BlackBerry 6 and BlackBerry 7 OS) and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets can monetize
apps on both
platforms today with BlackBerry WebWorks, which supports
apps built on
HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
Kobo sees its upcoming
HTML5 app, which is due out «this year,» as a complementary offering to its current iOS and Android
apps that allows the company to reach more
platforms without having to develop separate
apps.
With Flash disappearing and the overcrowded
app - stores,
HTML5 is now one of the fastest growing game
platforms around.
Regular readers will know Kik introduced its
HTML5 - based «Cards» content
platform last year, the idea being that user can customize their messaging experience by installing features like GIFs, YouTube search and games into Kik with a fast, efficient, in -
app download.
First launched in 2016, the
platform lets developers build mobile - friendly games using
HTML5 that work on both Facebook and Messenger, instead of requiring users to download native
apps from Apple or Google's
app stores.
Facebook desperately tried to build an
HTML5 game
platform called Project Spartan in 2011, but it flopped because the mobile web standard wasn't powerful enough to build games that could compete with flashy, downloadable native
apps.
On the other side of the spectrum, that same year Facebook tried to launch its own
HTML5 mobile web
app platform.
All we know for sure is that it won't be Project Spartan, the
HTML5 - based
app platform that Facebook has been working on with a small group of outside developers in secret for months.
We know for sure is that it won't be Project Spartan, the
HTML5 - based
app platform that Facebook has been working on with a small group of outside developers in secret for months.
An open source
platform leveraging web
apps written in
HTML5 and related technologies, the new SSSP screens are a blank canvas that developers can draw their
apps and content on.
Kik is one of a number of messaging firms going beyond just text chatting but unlike US rival Tango, Asia's Kakao Talk and Line, and others, Kik's
platform supports
HTML5 - based Web
apps rather than offering an SDK for standalone
apps or games.
Project Spartan is an
HTML5 based mobile application
platform for Facebook
apps, which will work on mobile Safari.
At Build, there are lots and lots of sessions aimed at educating developers about the new
app model for Windows 8, and how developers can use
HTML5 and JavaScript to write the new, immersive, «Metro style» applications for the
platform.
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