Write Cross-Platform Hybrid Apps in Visual Studio with Apache Cordova

摘要

Web developers with expertise in standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript already know that Web applications reach the greatest breadth of devices and customers with a single code base. And with responsive Web design, Web applications can also deliver great mobile experiences. Yet the wind appears to be blowing elsewhere: Data shows that mobile customers spend about 80 percent of their time in apps and 20 percent in browsers. Put simply, even the best mobile Web solutions just don't get the visibility and usage of native apps that are discoverable through platform app stores. Furthermore, although the W3C and browser vendors strive to surface native platform capabilities through new HTML5 standards, it's a slow process. Compared with native apps and native APIs, the mobile Web and HTML5 will generally be at a disadvantage when it comes to delighting customers with new innovations. Must you then bite the bullet and write native apps? Must you learn different languages and UI paradigms, shoulder the high cost of managing projects for each platform, and subsequently miss potential market opportunities?