HTML5 coupled with a Mobile UI widget library such as jQuery Mobile provides a cross-device way to create mobile specific user interfaces with JavaScript.

A new online tool named 'InAppBrowser' lets you analyze the behavior of in-app browsers embedded within mobile apps and determine if they inject privacy-threatening JavaScript into websites you visit.

Tabris.js is an open source mobile framework aimed to build native iOS and Android apps entirely in JavaScript. Among the main benefits of Tabris.js are performance, a fast development cycle, and ...

Development tool maker Syncfusion Inc. recently updated its Essential Studio 2014 suite of tools with 27 new JavaScript libraries aimed at mobile app developers.

Startup Synchro Labs launched a platform for using JavaScript and the Node.js framework to create cloud-based, native mobile apps for the enterprise, targeting the replacement of legacy intranet apps.

Google’s Area 120 has released a new smartphone app designed to teach beginners how to write code. It’s called Grasshopper, and it kind of feels like Duolingo for coding. While Duolingo offers ...

JavaScript is currently ranked first showing why Salesforce is making this push. They want to attract this rich developer community for its push into the mobile market.

A smartphone or tablet application that is programmed like a Web page rather than a mobile app. Hybrid mobile apps are coded in Web languages such as HTML and JavaScript rather than Swift (Apple ...

A “Free Day of Javascipt on Mobile” attracted some of the best mobile web minds in the Bay Area to discuss the current state and future of javascript on mobile and the mobile web in general.

Glimmer, a library for building mobile applications that arose out of the Ember.js front-end JavaScript stack, will use custom bytecode to improve web application loading on mobile devices. The ...