HTML5 Mobile Application Development

The rise in the use of mobile devices has led many a developer to throw up their hands in frustration. Should a business require both a website and a mobile application? The future may lie in HTML 5, CSS and JavaScript applications that work equally well on all platforms.

HTML5 is one of the hottest growing web development platforms. Technology leaders like Apple and Google have been revolutionizing the community at such a pace that market has been flooded with the iPhone/iPad/Android applications. According to many web development professionals and experts, HTML5 will gain a lot of importance quickly due to the upsurge in demand and requirements of mobile web development. The rising number of mobile websites for businesses are being developed all over the world as companies are considering mobile commerce a remarkable strategy that brings a new era of opportunities.

Algoworks has realized the future importance of HTML5 capabilities and thus we have a focused group of engineers helping our clients develop multi platform HTML5 applications to suit their needs.

Key Benefits of HTML5:

• Cleaner, readable and consistent HTML code that is transferable across environments by default
• Application distribution channels go beyond the different app stores, thereby eliminating the excessive restrictions and undue consumption of time
• Usability of advanced UI components such as data pickers, sliders, edit boxes that automatically support ellipsis and others
• Reduce app size and improve its responsiveness, CSS3 styles and CSS3-based animation are used
• Easy accessibility to rich media types (audio and video) are available via native code only
• Support for geo-location services
• Offline storage capabilities

Our HTML5 Mobile Application development and testing services includes the following:

Location Aware Feature:
HTML5’s Geolocation API makes the mobile device’s geographic location available to a Web application. In the past, obtaining device location was only possible using proprietary JavaScript extensions to JavaScript or server-side integration with a mobile operator API. The API allows one-off location queries and repeated location updates by registering callback functions.

Web Storage API:
The Web Storage API allows documents to persistently store data in a mobile browser. Mobile browsers can write data in one browsing session and read it in the next session.

Offline Application Caching:
HTML5 documents use a manifest to list all dependent external resources (i.e. CSS files, JavaScript libraries, etc.). Mobile browsers use the manifest to cache an entire Web application for offline use, allowing mobile users to interact with a Web app while roaming in and out of coverage areas.

Native Audio/Video Controls:
New <video> and <audio> elements embed multimedia into a Web document without using third-party browser plug-ins. Mobile browsers may natively control multimedia display, codecs and user interfaces.

HTML5 Compliant Mobile Development Frameworks we work on:

• Sencha
• jQuery Mobile
• Phonegap
• iWebKit
• JQ Touch