Finding the sweet spot - blending the best of native and web

A presentation on when it makes sense to build native interfaces vs web interfaces, and how to get them to work together.

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1. Finding the sweet spot - blending the best of native and web Shawn Jansepar @shawnjan8
4. "The biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native…" - Mark Zuckerberg
5. “For areas within the app where we anticipate making changes more often, we will continue to utilize HTML5 code, as we can push updates server side without requiring people to download a new version of the app” - Jonathan Dann (Facebook Engineer)
6. "The biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native a particular technology rather then focusing on the experience…" - Mark Zuckerberg
7. Why Web Interfaces? • Runs on every modern operating system • Deploy without app update Why Native Interfaces? • Performance.
8. Why choose?
9. What matters is the experience, not the technology.
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12. A “Write once, run everywhere” approach
13. A “Write once, run everywhere” approach
14. Credit to Allen Pike, image from http://www.allenpike.com/2011/providing-joy-at-60-fps/
15. We need a “Maybe write once maybe run- everywhere it really depends on the feature” approach
16. What was our “sweet spot”?
17. The native bits
19. Navigation
20. Navigation
21. Navigation
22. Bidding Screen
23. ¯\_(ϑ)_/¯
24. The web bits
25. Building “app-aware” responsive websites • Take “progressive enhancement” to the next level • Detecting the “app” context in three places: • “app” class in CSS • isRunningInApp method in JS • “ App” appended to user agent for server-side logic
28. 20% Native, 80% Web
29. Why Web Interfaces? • Runs on every modern operating system • Deploy without app update Why Native Interfaces? • Performance.
30. Web + Native • Runs on every modern operating system • Deploy without app update • Performant
31. In a , choose the appropriate technology on a feature by feature basis
32. How to build apps using a mix of both
33. Embedded PhoneGap http://docs.phonegap.com/develop/embed-webview/
34. Credit to Holly Schinsky, image from http://phonegap.com/blog/2015/03/12/mobile-choices-post1/
35. Astro - the “Native” Hybrid SDK built on top of Cordova http://astro.mobify.com/
36. Top 3 WebView Performance Tips • Remove transform: translate3d in Android 4.4.2 (or use Crosswalk) • Change WebView deceleration rate to UIScrollViewDecelerationRateNormal • Use fast click, not only to make clicks faster, but also to fix a bug in iOS 8.4.1 that causes slow taps to not navigate
37. Find the sweet spot in your app
38. @shawnjan8 http://astro.mobify.com/ Questions?