{"id":1565,"date":"2010-06-29T05:46:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T10:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fusioninformatics.com\/blog\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2010-06-29T05:46:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T10:46:27","slug":"html5google-apis-a-new-era-of-mobile-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fusioninformatics.com\/blog\/html5google-apis-a-new-era-of-mobile-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"HTML5+Google APIs = A New Era of Mobile Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When building nextstop&#8217;s HTML5 mobile apps, we were able to influence a powerful grouping of HTML5 and Google API&#8217;s to build a mobile web experience that we believe rival what we could have built natively. For more on our <a title=\"Mobile Application Development\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fusioninformatics.com\/mobile-pda-applications.html\"><strong>mobile apps development<\/strong><\/a> we will just focus on the technologies that made this experience possible.<\/p>\n<p>Recently <strong>HTML5<\/strong>&#8216;s video features have gotten a lot of attention, but it&#8217;s three other HTML5 features that we&#8217;ve found most useful for <strong>mobile web development.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Prefetching using Local Storage<\/strong>: It&#8217;s no secret that mobile data networks are slow but by putting a bit of thought into what users will tap on next, and prefetching that data in the background you can build a spectacularly quicker user experience. It&#8217;s possible to do limited forms of prefetching using plain old <strong>JavaScript<\/strong>, but using the local Storage key\/value storage built into <strong>HTML5<\/strong>, we&#8217;re able to store much more data and therefore prefetch more assertively.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using a recent version of Chrome or Safari or on an iPhone 3 or Android 2 phone and want a sense of what prefetching feels like, try clicking the left and right arrows here (you can ignore the warning you will see in Chrome and Safari).<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Geolocation<\/strong>: Using the geo location features built into HTML5 (available on iPhone 3 and Android 2), we&#8217;re able to connect you with local information based on the <strong>GPS<\/strong> in your phone, so all you have to do is launch the app to see nearby recommendations. I wish it were a bit faster, but it sure beats entering an address or zip code &#8212; and it&#8217;s very easy to catch into as a <strong>developer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>App Caching<\/strong>: The last HTML5 feature that we greatly rely on is the application cache. If a cache obvious file is specified, the browser won&#8217;t re-download files unless the content of the manifest file has been updated. This may not sound like a big deal, but the latency of cellular networks can be long enough that requesting multiple files at startup can slow down your application by 10 or 20 seconds. 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