HTML5 is getting to trend and, many organizations with requirements of mobile application development are now turning to HTML5 technologies. Top of the advantages of choosing HTML5 over native technologies are the reduced cost and complexities. If implemented by expert developers, HTML5 can also be used in designing and developing enterprise apps. It appears to be a simple alternative, and with the emergence of a number of HTML5 frameworks, the development has become easy, too. Any organization, with plans to deploy apps across multiple platforms, should consider HTM5.
But, it doesn’t mean that it’s too easy to build HTML5 apps. Performance and security related concerns are always associated with web technologies and so is the case with HTML5. Often time, the desired user-experience cannot also be delivered as compared to native apps.
What is an HTML5 app?
First, HTML5 applications abide by the concept of WORA (write once, run anywhere). A mobile app created with the web standards should qualify to run on any platform and support web any browser. In fact, HTML5 apps are nothing but the collection of web pages, which are optimized to run on mobile devices. The standard 5 of the HTML now has an advanced support for a lot of things, such as streaming video, audio, graphics and animation. With these elements, a sort of offline experience can be created. They also add semantic elements, form controls and multimedia components as well as a Guest posting sites variety of APIs supporting geo-location services, drag and drop operations etc.
But, an HTML5 app is basically the collection web pages, it seldom works alone. It needs integration of CSS as well as JavaScript to do a lot of things. Thank god all browsers now support these tree web standards.
How HTML5 mobile application development works
When an HTML5 based mobile application development is processed, the developer includes CSS and JavaScript files to the HTML code. A good HTML5 framework can manipulate and recycle Document Object Model (DOM) elements so that performance can be improved. Also, JavaScript allows implementing behavior such as screen transition or list control.
But, there are a lot of frameworks and not all of them are same. Before making one as base for mobile application development, there is requirement of doing perfect homework. There may be differences in browsers and thus an app is built to support lowest common denominator to ensure a universal support.
Although it may hurt user experience but it can also be handled if the developer has proper training and experience in UX.
What to keep in mind when building HTML5 apps
The key considerations for HTML5 mobile application development are memory and performance limitations. Developers should carefully handle page flow. They should have experience in implementing DOM. They should try to make the model simpler so that it doesn’t take longer time in navigation.
The app should be lightweight so that UX quality doesn’t lag. It should be tested on various devices, screen sizes, browsers and operating systems.
Author Bio. :- Sofia is the technical writer of Rapidsoft Technologies that helps startups and enterprises in mobile technology and having a great experience in mobile wallet app development, finance app development etc.
