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 ...

Apple brought huge JavaScript performance improvements to Mobile Safari in March of this year, but those benefits didn’t extend to Web apps saved to a user’s home screen. iOS 5 will remedy that ...

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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 ...

VisiCalc co-inventor argues for mobile JavaScript apps over native ones Dan Bricklin, now CTO of Alpha Software, should be a familiar name to just about anyone who knows tech. As the co-developer of ...

Citing rival MongoDB Inc.’s recent decision to phase out support for its mobile database, Couchbase Inc. today is doubling down with updates to its Couchbase Mobile platform aimed at supporting edge ...

It has been a decade since the launch of the iPhone, but for developers, it can feel like we’re still trapped in 2007. If you’re doing anything interesting with a mobile app, you run into a pernicious ...