Google Gears in Your Pocket
Today is an exciting day for mobile application development, as it marks the first release of Google Gears on mobile devices
Consider the sad state of mobile app development today: you often need to write native code, and build against four different SDKs, using five different compilers. It’s a daunting task, which explains why so few people write mobile applications.
Web apps are an obvious way to deliver functionality across mobile devices. You can write your application just once. So why hasn’t this approach been more widely adopted? Mobile browsers simply cannot do much of what you want applications to do.
Enter Google Gears. The mission of Gears is to extend the capabilities of web browsers. It is clear to us that mobile browsers can benefit just as much as desktop ones. By adding features to mobile browsers, it becomes possible to deploy an increasing number of mobile applications as web apps. Continues
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