Chapter 1
Designing My Mobile Organizer
Designing a mobile app is no easy task! The wide variety of devices in the world makes it difficult to target them all effectively. Because of this, one of the more popular paradigms for mobilizing an app is to use the same technologies you build websites with: HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. Doing so is, for most companies and developers nowadays, a good reuse of existing knowledge and skills. However, even after making the seemingly simple decision to follow that path, there are still a bewildering number of technology choices to be made.
Do you write all the code of the app running on the mobile device, or do you use a library to save you time? There are pluses and minuses to both answers. On the server, ...
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