The dawn of a new era in app development
We are at an important juncture in app development frameworks — allow me to elaborate.
Have a look at these two screen-shots. The first shows a simple app on Android Studio and simulator, this is a native app (would run equally well on iOS). The second is the same app running in a browser, this is a web app.
Why is this a big deal?
This is the first time, in the software web/mobile paradigm shift that has been “eating the world” (as proclaimed in 2011), that this has been possible in open-source.
Allow me to repeat…
For the first time [in a free framework] a developer can build and deploy an app on native and web from a single code base.
This wasn’t the case with Twitter’s popular Bootstrap framework. That was to adapt web apps to so-called “mobile web”, the apps were not native. Nor was this the case with Facebook’s equally popular…
