In this podcast, Looper compares native app development platforms for iOS and Android with hybrid mobile app development frameworks and JavaScript cross-platform mobile app development tools. As she ...

Google’s Area 120 has released a new smartphone app designed to teach beginners how to write code. It’s called Grasshopper, and it kind of feels like Duolingo for coding.

JavaScript is not a natural general purpose programming language, however the explosion of mobile devices and the large adoption of HTML5 and the resistance and non-support of browser plug-in ...

Alloy is the established JavaScript framework supporting Liferay. However, Liferay is expanding the scope of Alloy in the new version 2.0 so it can be used as a framework for non-Liferay projects.

Glimmer, a library for building mobile applications that arose out of the Ember.js front-end JavaScript stack, will use custom bytecode to improve web application loading on mobile devices.

Development tools company Progress today announced NativeScript 5.0, its open source framework for creating native mobile apps with JavaScript. Specifically, in addition to plain old JavaScript, ...

A recent essay written by iOS developer Drew Crawford entitled “ Why mobile apps are slow ” goes to great lengths to illustrate the speed differences between “native” code and JavaScript ...

Tabris.js is an open source mobile framework aimed to build native iOS and Android apps entirely in JavaScript. Among the main benefits of Tabris.js are performance, a fast development cycle, and supp ...

The San Francisco startup has a new SDK for JavaScript that makes it easier to build HTML5 apps. Parse has long billed itself as the "Heroku for Mobile," a service that takes over the hassle of ...

However, React Native -- announced at a February Facebook conference -- isn't a complete framework for mobile app development. It's often positioned as a good tool to produce the "view" part of apps ...