Introduction to HTML5 and HTML5 Mobile Development

Overview

Since decades, Hypertext Markup Language or commonly known as HTML has always been one of the most preferred, proven and foremost development platform for web designing, web development as well as for web application development. Software and web development companies around the world always rely on HTML for development and designing of scalable websites and web applications.

Furthermore since the inception in 1990, HTML was always been upgraded to meet the increasing technological demands of the market. Now, HTML is just not limited to web designing and development, with HTML 5 it has moved far ahead than its normal boundary by providing rich multimedia oriented web contents and solutions for mobile apps.

HTML5 development is an ongoing effort of many software developers and IT industries in order to revise and improve the functionality of Hypertext Markup Language. Though it is still under the beta phase the developing team is closely working together in order to achieve the completion of the project by 2022.

Why HTML5 Mobile Development?

However, if we look on the other hand mobile technology giants such as Apple, Google and Microsoft are always pushing forward to provide better mobile operating systems. Apple’s latest iOS 5, Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich and Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) OS could be the perfect examples.  The numbers of users using these operating systems oriented smartphones are increasing day-in and day-out.  Again every individual has his own choice of mobile OS’s and platform. This ultimately affects the stakeholder who is opting for a solution via mobile app development as designing an app dedicated to one platform will not allow him to gain major market share. Opting for an app solution that works on all mobile devices is vital, and at the same time it proves to be expensive and time consuming.

HTML5 is such a technology which quickly understood these needs of the market and started providing a universal app solution that can work flawlessly on all mobile platforms with the help of HTML5 mobile development. This has led to the new revolution with the requirement of cross platform mobile development.

On the other hand, mobile technology giant Apple and Google are always pushing forward. The number of iPhone users and the Android users in the market are almost equal. And in this tight situation when a business is opting for a solution via mobile development it becomes vital to opt for a solution that works flawlessly on all the major mobile devices. Additionally, HTML5 mobile development is also capable to provide solution for multimedia rich mobile website.

There are many cross platform mobile development kits available out there in the market which integrates HTML5 in their SDK’s. These SDK’s are the main aspects that provide the solution for universal mobile apps. These SDK’s includes PhoneGap, Apcelerator Titanium, MoSync, Sencha, etc.