JavaScript is not a natural general purpose programming language, however the explosion of mobile devices and the large adoption of HTML5 and the resistance and non-support of browser plug-in ...

React Native allows developers to build cross-platform apps for iOS, Android, and the Web from a single JavaScript codebase.

A few days ago, developer Felix Krause shared a detailed report on how mobile apps can use their own in-app web browser to track user data. Now Krause is back with a new tool that lets anyone see ...

The San Francisco startup has a new SDK for JavaScript that makes it easier to build HTML5 apps. Parse has long billed itself as the "Heroku for Mobile," a service that takes over the hassle of ...

Python support in mobile operating systems is still in the preliminary stages. But there is already a rich set of cross-platform JavaScript mobile app development tools such as Cordova and Ionic.

However, React Native -- announced at a February Facebook conference -- isn't a complete framework for mobile app development. It's often positioned as a good tool to produce the "view" part of apps ...

NativeScript is an open source framework for building truly native iOS and Android apps in Angular, TypeScript, or JavaScript. NativeScript not only taps native iOS and Android APIs, but also ...

Tabris.js is an open source mobile framework aimed to build native iOS and Android apps entirely in JavaScript. Among the main benefits of Tabris.js are performance, a fast development cycle, and supp ...

[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 5. Hitting a Breakpoint Wrapping Up I've demonstrated how the Chakra JavaScript engine can be accessed from a UWP app. This is an extremely powerful mechanism ...

A recent essay written by iOS developer Drew Crawford entitled “ Why mobile apps are slow ” goes to great lengths to illustrate the speed differences between “native” code and JavaScript ...