Developing native apps at FINN.no

Pros and cons of native/hybrid/web app development and why FINN.no develops both web and native apps.

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1. Developing native apps at FINN.no TechShock Meetup / 6th of November 2013 Alf Thomas Nilsen / Team Lead Mobile Apps FINN.no
2. Reasons for developing native apps
3. Performance
4. APIs
5. Notifications
6. Content synchronization
7. Location
8. Tooling
9. Look & Feel
10. Discoverability
11. Reasons for not developing native apps
12. A lot of work
13. Distributed code is a challenge
14. Need to learn new technologies
15. If you don’t intend do apps properly, stay on the web
16. What about hybrid apps?
17. Think it through
18. Is the tooling good enough?
19. Is the support good enough?
20. Can you support each platform’s look & feel?
21. Is the performance good enough?
22. Are the device APIs available?
23. On the 26th of August FINN launched iOS and Android apps as well as a revamped mobile web site
26. Visits to FINN in last month 56m visits 38% mobile
27. Phone visits to m.finn and apps last month 84% m.finn 16% apps
28. m.finn visits from phones last month 37% Android 62% iPhone
29. Apps sessions on phones last month 60% Android 40% iPhone
30. Apps sessions on tablets last month 12% Android 88% iPad
31. Visits per visitor last week 4.0 apps 2.3 m.finn
32. Visits from logged in users last week 37% apps 29% m.finn
33. If you don’t intend do apps properly, stay on the web
34. Thank you! twitter: @alfthomas
35. Attributions F12 Berlinetta b/w: http://www.flickr.com/photos/streetcarl/10235718843/ New APIs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/benm_at/4683068640/ Notification: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38305415@N00/4585763335 Google Cloud Messaging: http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/index.html Reading map: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnloo/8213474064/ Android Design Guidelines: http://developer.android.com/design/index.html Toolbox: http://www.flickr.com/photos/florianric/7263382550/ Puzzle: http://www.flickr.com/photos/intvgene/370973576/ Thinking: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakecaptive/3205277810/