Google’s Area 120 has released a new smartphone app designed to teach beginners how to write code. It’s called Grasshopper, and it kind of feels like Duolingo for coding. While Duolingo offers short ...

In the world of comic book heroes, it’s easy to see the appeal of heroes combining their powers to make a difference, such as The Avengers. In the less super-powered world of programming development, ...

The advantages of developing a mobile application on a native platform are many, but they are outweighed by being limited to one platform, usually either iOS or Android, according to veteran mobile ...

Development tools company Progress today announced NativeScript 5.0, its open source framework for creating native mobile apps with JavaScript. Specifically, in addition to plain old JavaScript, ...

A smartphone or tablet application that is programmed like a Web page rather than a mobile app. Hybrid mobile apps are coded in Web languages such as HTML and JavaScript rather than Swift (Apple) and ...

The Qt development toolkit is undergoing a major overhaul. The developers behind the project announced the availability of the Qt 5 alpha release this week. It’s a key milestone on the path to the ...

React Native, Facebook’s framework for building native mobile apps, is to be rearchitected for flexibility and mproved integration with native infrastructure. The framework, which uses JavaScript and ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

We previously reported on a method for storing an entire set of HTML in a bookmark on the iPhone (in effect allowing "Web apps" to live locally on the device) by utilizing the data: URL. All page ...

JavaScript traditionally has been all about Web development, but a new survey indicates it's breaking out of that bailiwick to become a force in mobile app development. Whereas mobile development not ...