The fight is over. It’s not web apps versus native apps, it’s a mobile world, and we need both. Let me tell you a bit about my experience with connected native apps, and why they are essentials. More importantly, how they can work with web apps and web services in order to build truly awesome experiences.

1. Web Apps + Native Apps
Vincent Tourraine
RuLu 2013

2. Hello, I’mVincent
★ work at shazino
★ www.vtourraine.net
★ @vtourraine
iOS developer

3. Web Apps
vs.
Native Apps

4. Welcome to
the Mobile World
Always
Connected
(with modern browsers!)
Martin Cooper

5. Let’s build web apps!

7. 2007
Apple introduced
the iPhone
with web apps!

8. http://www.apple.com/webapps/
Now redirects to:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/from-the-app-store/

9. 2009
Palm introduced
webOS
everything
is a web app

10. 2013
Apple prefers
native apps
50,000,000,000
downloads

11. 2013
Palm is dead
webOS has been
sold (twice),
open sourced

12. What about native apps?

13. “Native First”
‣ Created 2 years ago
‣ 100,000,000 users

14. $1,000,000,000.00

15. Instagram
‣ Expanded to Android
‣ Even a web app

16. What’s the problem?

17. Connectivity problems

18. Limited APIs
Geofencing

19. Windows PhoneAndroid
Confusing Experience
iOSWeb app

20. So...Web apps don’t work
on mobile?

21. Web apps are not dead,
but they need to go deeper.

22. Internet connection dependent

23. Flexible interface
(don’t build your own web engine)

24. Need real-time updates

25. It’s time for Hybrid apps

26. What should you do?
➜ Java
➜ Objective-C
☺ RubyMotion
(workshop tomorrow!)

27. thanks
Vincent Tourraine
RuLu 2013