Since the initiation of HTML5 by Apple, Google & Mozilla and earlier supported browsers such as Safari & Chrome made iPhone developers to think about web app development
If a developer developed an App that can also serve the leading mobile devices in the market then why would he / she invest additional time on the native app development to reach the audience?
Well, that make some sense and therefore we’ve already seen how Google is so much involved in developing web apps for leading mobile market today.
Since the iPhone OS 3.0 released, iPhone developers now have an option to actually ‘Hide Safari User Interface Components’ and make their web apps look like native apps. Also the common saving bookmark on ‘Home Screen’ will complete the web apps look as a native app to the end user. For example you can visit http://hahlo.com/ on iPhone. And then go ahead and bookmark it on the ‘Home Screen’ and then launch the App from ‘Home Screen’.
Here is a Meta tag through which you can achieve the look and feel of native app for your web app for iPhone Safari.
Hiding Safari User Interface Components:
<meta name=”apple-mobile-web-app-capable” content=”yes” />
So do you think web apps are the future of iPhone development? What’s your take on web apps vs. native apps on iPhone?
