Google’s Area 120 has released a new smartphone app designed to teach beginners how to write code. It’s called Grasshopper, and it kind of feels like Duolingo for coding. While Duolingo offers short ...

These days it’s hard to ignore the groundswell of the co-mingling of the words “mobile” and “HTML5”. Mobile is where it’s at in 2011 (if it wasn’t already in 2010) and most are betting on HTML5 and ...

A new online tool named 'InAppBrowser' lets you analyze the behavior of in-app browsers embedded within mobile apps and determine if they inject privacy-threatening JavaScript into websites you visit.

Glimmer, a library for building mobile applications that arose out of the Ember.js front-end JavaScript stack, will use custom bytecode to improve web application loading on mobile devices. The ...

Development tool maker Syncfusion Inc. recently updated its Essential Studio 2014 suite of tools with 27 new JavaScript libraries aimed at mobile app developers. The new widgets for UI components such ...

Today, enterprise developers have an enormous number of frameworks at their disposal to build mobile applications. A popular approach is to use a framework such as Apache Cordova to build “hybrid” ...

Development tools company Progress today announced NativeScript 5.0, its open source framework for creating native mobile apps with JavaScript. Specifically, in addition to plain old JavaScript, ...

Citing rival MongoDB Inc.’s recent decision to phase out support for its mobile database, Couchbase Inc. today is doubling down with updates to its Couchbase Mobile platform aimed at supporting edge ...