When you build an Android app, for example, PhoneGap wraps your HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a WebView container, relying on the underlying WebKit rendering engine for execution and thereby ...

Today, mobile development is a mess. Building applications for each device–iPhone, Google Android, Windows Mobile and so forth–requires a different development framework and programming language.

Brightcove's native plug-in architecture for its App Cloud and Application Craft's launch of Mobile Build are the latest examples of how cross-platform development tools for mobile apps are ...