Some Best Practices for Mobile Web Application Development Part 1
Summary
Mobile web app development is bit a challenging task in a sense of ever changing technology canvas. We need to develop some good practices during our mobile web app development in order to beat the performance of native apps. Smart use of local storage technologies and avoidance of cookies are some suggestive practices to gain good performance.
Introduction
When we are referring web application on mobile, something immediately strikes on our mind, a picture of some inferior product than native mobile application. However, this is not always true because when we are going to mobile web application development we have wide area of development to serve various purposes that are sometimes not possible with only native coding.
If we take care of some best practices, regarding to the mobile web app programming, we definitely can exceed the performance of mobile web app against the native apps on all major platforms like iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, etc. We, mobile web app developers should keep some important notes in our mind that we are going to create web application that is for tiny devices, not big desktop or laptop.
Mobile devices have limitations in every aspects of performance. Screens are tiny in smartphones whereas some bigger in tablets. Processing speed is again a big constraint in the way to do things rapidly. The most intimidating thing is the connectivity, be it Wi-Fi or 4G, but that is not matching with cable connections for internet access and reducing the data upload as well as download speed of the web applications from the web and to the web.
In order to minimize such backlogs we can implement some good practices during our mobile web app development. The very first step is the data as we need to data in the device or in the browser of the device for various purposes like filling forms, loading images, emails and some personalization in the websites. Generally, such data are stored in the cookies of the browsers. The very nature of some data like token of the signing in etc. need frequent interactions with the server while some cookies constantly sending requests to the server and keep busy the mobile network.
Therefore, using cookies supported programming or websites are not acceptable and advisable on the mobile platform and we should avoid use of cookies in our mobile web app development in order to avoid cookie related caveats. Instead, we can use the local storage technologies for local data and get good performance in our mobile web app development. Today we have HTML 5 dependent functionality to store your data for offline purposes so we can leverage such programming techniques to create local data storage. Another benefit of local storage is that you can access data display immediately without waiting for the server responses. With local data interaction, we can get responsive interactions with server and can save lots of bandwidth. Apart from HTML 5 BONDI and OPERA widgets can help us.
About Author
Shoaib Marfatiya is a wordsmith with a knack in technical content writing and SEO content writing.There are plenty of content on his credit like articles, blogs, press release, etc. and all with written at SEO point of view and keeping readers in mind.
