Mobile App Development Costs

Alex Bakman notes that hiring mobile app development typically costs $50,000 for initial deployment and similar amounts during a two year improvement cycle (until the next refresh). He proposes that people develop apps in-house using visual development tools.

-DD

Building Responsive Mobile Sites With jQuery

Anastasia Salter suggests "Building [Responsive] Mobile Sites With JQuery ." As I have almost no programming ability, the use of a template (albeit using an alternate technology) was essential to my current responsive web project.

-DD

Web App Development

Ericka Chickowski prepared a slideshow demonstrating that the three reasons for developing platform specific apps are:

1. To make the app available when offline;
2. To take advantage of device hardware;
3. Speed requirements (native apps run faster).

Otherwise, she provides seven reasons for using HTML5 to create or prototype the app.

-DD