The argument in its time
Matt Netkow’s July 2017 article argued that hybrid mobile development had become more practical. It pointed to improving device performance, more capable web views, responsive layout techniques, application frameworks and better development tools. It also discussed results from a 2017 Ionic developer survey.
The piece considered several approaches, including web-view-based applications and frameworks rendering native interfaces. It described PhoneGap CLI, Desktop, the Developer App and Build as parts of the tooling available to web developers at the time.
Read with its original date
The headline is the original article’s claim, not a current market-share finding. A survey’s audience and its respondents’ intentions do not establish what all mobile developers eventually adopted. Product availability and framework details in the article belong to 2017.
Read the complete original article by Matt Netkow.
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