Preface

The sudden explosion of mobile devices has made mobile apps development one of the hottest career fields for programmers. The global smartphone/tablet market shared by multiple platforms posed a serious question to mobile application developers and companies, as every mobile platform has different development frameworks and programming languages to develop native applications.

How can we achieve WORA (Write Once, Run Anywhere)?

The obvious solution was HTML5, which is supported by all the latest browsers and has great support for developing rich user interfaces. With the introduction of platforms such as PhoneGap, which exposes the native OS APIs to apps developed in HTML5/JavaScript and CSS3, HTML5-based applications became a double-edged ...

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