New cross-platform mobile app development tools, which use JavaScript, can be more effective than hybrid mobile app development tools and native approaches in making sure apps perform well on multiple ...

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 ...

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 ...

The highly anticipated React Native project from Facebook has been officially open sourced and released, possibly heralding a sea wave change in mobile UI app development practices.

The key for JavaScript’s value lies with the programming code developed for apps and, just recently, IoT devices. App developers have added libraries and frameworks to extend functionality of ...

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.

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

A few days ago, developer Felix Krause shared a detailed report on how mobile apps can use their own in-app web browser to track user data. Now Krause is back with a new tool that lets anyone see ...

The Famo.us mobile Web framework runs faster than standard HTML and takes less development time than native code -- once you get up to speed ...

An introduction to the Chakra JavaScript engine and how it can be used within a Windows 10 app to execute JavaScript.