2. About your speaker
• Microsoft Most Valuable
Professional for C#
• Senior Developer for
Readify
• Mobile app developer
starting in
2010, specialized on iOS
@lattex
jonlimjap@gmail.com
http://dotnet.kapenilattex.com
3. Agenda
• Why cross platform?
• Different types of cross platform solutions
• Does cross platform work?
• Is cross platform for me?
14. Does cross platform work?
Between November 2012 and 2013,
HTML5 on mobile was hounded with issues
15. Facebook and it’s mistake
“The biggest mistake we made
as a company was betting too
much on HTML5 as opposed to
native”
- Mark Zuckerberg,
TechCrunch Disrupt, Nov 9, 2012
16. Sencha strikes back with FastBook!
“When you treat the browser as
an application platform and
leverage the features of
HTML5, even the most
sophisticated applications can
be made with HTML5.”
-Jamie Avins and Jacky Nguyen
“The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love Story”
Dec 17, 2012
17. LinkedIn says “it’s the tools”
“Because [a working debugger and
runtime diagnostics information tools]
don’t exist, people are falling back to
native. It’s not that HTML5 isn’t ready;
it’s that the ecosystem doesn’t support
it. … There are tools, but they’re at the
beginning. People are just figuring out
the basics.”
- Kiran Prasad,
“Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 & went native for its mobile apps”,
April 17, 2013
18. A case of mismanaged expectations?
“HTML5 is now close to
prime time and more and
more business are looking to
HTML5 to solve market
challenges.”
- Rob Grossberg,
“How HTML5 Crashed, Burned, and Rose Again”, Nov 18, 2013
22. References
• Avins, Jamie & Nguyen, Jacky – The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love
Story - http://www.sencha.com/blog/the-making-of-fastbook-an-html5love-story
• Grossberg, Rob – How HTML5 Crashed, Burned, And Rose Again http://readwrite.com/2013/11/18/assessing-the-aftermath-of-thehtml5-hype-cycle
• Odell, J. – Why LinkedIn Dumped HTML5 & Went Native For Its Mobile
Apps - http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/17/linkedin-mobile-webbreakup/
• Olanoff, Drew – Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Betting Too
Much On HTML5 - http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerbergour-biggest-mistake-with-mobile-was-betting-too-much-on-html5/