A friend of mine, Molly Moran, is in the process of building a new iPhone app to track hunt clubs (as in fox hunting!). One of the features that she wants to implement is a UITableView that lists nearby clubs based on the user’s GPS location. She has a database of all the clubs in […]
Last week, I wrote about Drew Crawford’s analysis of the elements affecting the poor performance of mobile web apps. In my post I noted that performance issues for my own mobile web app project were related to a large number of elements inserted into the DOM and the resulting memory footprint rather than pure JavaScript […]
Drew Crawford recently published an extensive piece analyzing the performance of web apps on mobile platforms. It’s really worth the read if you’re considering building a mobile web app as it includes plenty of supporting data that may help to guide future projects. In the article Drew concludes that mobile platforms are far behind the […]