By Robert Hartman

Many Internet of Things (IoT) products or services rely on mobile applications. Whether they are for industrial, commercial, or consumer use cases, mobile applications are often critical user interfaces to communicate with, configure, or control connected-devices or digital services in an IoT system.

 

By Martin Heller

There was a time when you had to choose between creating universal mobile apps and native apps. Universal apps used web technologies like HTML and JavaScript, which often performed badly in mobile devices. Native apps performed better because they were written separately for each platform you wanted to support, but they were expensive and required a specialized development team for each platform.