Best practices for developing mobile cloud apps revealed

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Bill Claybrook.

When developers build mobile apps, they have the choice of building either apps that are installed and run natively on remote devices (native apps), or those that run in mobile cloud environments (mobile cloud apps). Native apps and mobile cloud apps each have their inherent advantages and disadvantages.

Native apps run on remote devices such as smartphones and tablets and are built specifically for a device and its operating system. Native apps have the ability to leverage device-specific hardware and software, meaning that they can take advantage of the latest technology available on mobile devices, such as GPS, camera, location and locomotion. This can be construed as an advantage for native apps over mobile cloud apps…

Mobile cloud apps run on servers with their data stored in the cloud. Users access the app through a browser window on the device. Mobile cloud apps are generally developed independent of operating systems and can be more robust than native apps because there is more compute power and storage available in the cloud than on the much smaller remote device. Mobile cloud apps present advantages over native apps because security and other management aspects can be more easily centralized…

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