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mattgcon
mattgcon

Reputation: 4848

Is there a big difference between coding for Mobile apps vs Web apps

I am on the cusp of recieving a new project that involves creating a mobile app for android tablets. Is there a large difference in coding for web apps vs mobile apps. And is there any good links I can go to read up on it more? This will be in .Net by the way

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2615

Answers (2)

Joachim Sauer
Joachim Sauer

Reputation: 308001

Well, obviously both involve coding, so they are quite similar at this level.

But the restrictions that apply to you are quite different.

  • on a sever application, the size of the libraries you use don't usually make a difference, while the installation size of a mobile app is a definite issue
  • memory and processing power are usually are less of an issue on the server, as compared to a mobile device
  • each mobile platform usually has it's own UI framework with quite unique concepts (at least each interesting platform does it its own way)
  • the APIs are quite different (it's rare to have the same API for server applications and mobile applications)

So yes, there is quite a difference between writing a web-application and writing a native smartphone application.

Upvotes: 2

ryandlf
ryandlf

Reputation: 28545

Fundamentally coding is coding, but as with anything you are going to be using a different language with android and a different architecture for setting things up. I would suggest reading through the developer documents at developer.android.com and depending on how well you know java maybe do some studying on the basics of java development. www.thenewboston.com helped me a ton when I was first starting to program.

Upvotes: 0

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