Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Blur The Lines - Native Feeling Web Apps
Search
Sponsored
·
Ship Features Fearlessly
Turn features on and off without deploys. Used by thousands of Ruby developers.
→
Rob Tarr
February 25, 2014
Technology
91
0
Share
Blur The Lines - Native Feeling Web Apps
Some tips for writing web apps that feel like part of the native ecosystem
Rob Tarr
February 25, 2014
More Decks by Rob Tarr
See All by Rob Tarr
Frontend_Testing.pdf
robtarr
0
110
Blur the Lines: Write Web Apps That Feel Native
robtarr
1
100
Blur the Lines: How to write web apps that look native.
robtarr
0
92
Responsive JavaScript
robtarr
4
950
Development Tools and Responsive JavaScript
robtarr
1
170
JavaScript App Development
robtarr
3
390
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
CloudTrail を見つめ直してみる
kazzpapa3
1
100
AgentCore Managed Harness を使ってみよう
yakumo
2
120
「責任あるAIエージェント」こそ自社で開発しよう!
minorun365
9
2.1k
20260428_Product Management Summit_tadokoroyoshiro
tadokoro_yoshiro
6
5.7k
運用システムにおけるデータ活用とPlatform
sansantech
PRO
0
110
20年前の「OSS革命」に学ぶ AI時代の生存戦略
samakada
0
450
Do Ruby::Box dream of Modular Monolith?
joker1007
1
350
巨大プラットフォームを進化させる「第3のROI」
recruitengineers
PRO
2
250
ぼくがかんがえたさいきょうのあうとぷっと
yama3133
0
200
AI バイブコーティングでキーボード不要?!
samakada
0
590
Oracle AI Database@AWS:サービス概要のご紹介
oracle4engineer
PRO
4
2.4k
扱える不確実性を増やしていく - スタートアップEMが考える「任せ方」
kadoppe
0
310
Featured
See All Featured
Marketing to machines
jonoalderson
1
5.2k
A Tale of Four Properties
chriscoyier
163
24k
Testing 201, or: Great Expectations
jmmastey
46
8.1k
How Fast Is Fast Enough? [PerfNow 2025]
tammyeverts
3
530
Applied NLP in the Age of Generative AI
inesmontani
PRO
4
2.2k
[RailsConf 2023 Opening Keynote] The Magic of Rails
eileencodes
31
10k
Put a Button on it: Removing Barriers to Going Fast.
kastner
60
4.2k
Six Lessons from altMBA
skipperchong
29
4.2k
Dealing with People You Can't Stand - Big Design 2015
cassininazir
367
27k
Designing Dashboards & Data Visualisations in Web Apps
destraynor
231
54k
Designing Powerful Visuals for Engaging Learning
tmiket
1
350
CSS Pre-Processors: Stylus, Less & Sass
bermonpainter
360
30k
Transcript
Rob Tarr Blur the Lines: Write Web Apps That Feel
Native
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native What
are we talking about?
Building Native Web Apps
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native Who’s
Your Audience?
Who’s Your Audience?
There are some advantages to a native app
A few native app cons ‣ Limited to certain devices
- iOS vs. Android ‣ Approval processes ‣ Delay in pushing out updates ‣ Some users don’t upgrade ‣ iOS no Nitro JavaScript engine
A few web app cons ‣ Limited access to APIs
‣ Publicity ‣ Harder to monetize
Building Native Web Apps
Building Native Web Apps http://bit.ly/1oDzPLW How to create a web
app that looks like a iOS7 native app
Building Native Web Apps ‣ Style ‣ Behavior ‣ Compatibility
http://bit.ly/1oDzPLW
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native Typography
iOS7 & Apple System Fonts
iOS7 & Apple System Fonts -apple-system-body -apple-system-caption1 -apple-system-caption2 -apple-system-footnote -apple-system-headline
-apple-system-short-body -apple-system-short-caption1 -apple-system-short-footnote -apple-system-short-headline -apple-system-short-subheadline bit.ly/1oDSoiS font: {
iOS7 & Apple System Fonts <div style="font:-apple-system-headline"> <div style="font-size:2em">This is
the headline…</div> </div>
Safari Chrome
Safari Chrome <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app- capable" content="yes">
Safari Chrome <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status- bar-style" content=“black-translucent">
Safari Web Content Guide Configuring Web Applications bit.ly/1cMoCDB
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native Images
Home Screen Icons
Home Screen Icons <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="icon.png"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="/icon-144x144.png">
! <meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#73c5d3"> <meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="icon.png"> bit.ly/1hnz18G
SVGs ‣ Inline ‣ Backgrounds ‣ Data URIs ‣ Animations
SVG Animations
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native Animations
Animations
Navigation Animations www.thepetedesign.com/demos/jquery_wheelmenu_demo.html
Navigation Animations www.thepetedesign.com/demos/jquery_wheelmenu_demo.html
Animations easings.net
Navigation Animations www.snowbird.com
Animations forecast.io
Animations forecast.io
Matching ‣ http://jeremyckahn.github.io/stylie/ ‣ http://matthewlein.com/ceaser/ ‣ http://easings.net/
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native Behavior
fastclick ...mobile browsers will wait approximately 300ms from the time
that you tap the button to fire the click event. The reason for this is that the browser is waiting to see if you are actually performing a double tap. ! https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick
fastclick playthreeve.com
fastclick
fastclick
fastclick
fastclick
dragging
dragging http://eightmedia.github.io/hammer.js/
Linking to Native Apps href=“tel:19374010915” href=“facetime:19374010915” ! href=“http://maps.apple.com? q=123+Webster+St.,+Dayton,+OH +45402”
http://bit.ly/1j2MswD
keyboards http://bit.ly/1fJluWA
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native Performance
Performance bit.ly/1mu9bTz Simple explanation: ! The Nitro Javascript engine compiles
your code into native ARM code
Performance bit.ly/1mu9bTz Apps saved to the iOS home screen don’t
get the benefits of the Nitro JavaScript engine. BUSTED
Performance Application Cache bit.ly/1bHGKAh bit.ly/1hs9ifb Service Workers mzl.la/1fkPWWa bit.ly/1edzjjz
Performance Write really good code.
Blur the Lines: Write web apps that look native New
APIs
Geolocation JavaScript APIs
Battery JavaScript APIs http://www.smartjava.org/examples/webapi-battery/
Camera JavaScript APIs <input type=“file”> bit.ly/1o3Lu3w
JavaScript APIs shinydemos.com/warholiser/
Accelerometer JavaScript APIs isthisanearthquake.com
JavaScript APIs https://developers.inkfilepicker.com/docs/web/
In-App Purchases http://bit.ly/1fEcJgA
In-App Purchases http://bit.ly/1fEcJgA
In-App Purchases http://bit.ly/1fEcJgA
Building Native Web Apps
THANKS! @robtarr
[email protected]