Comparing HTML5 Based Apps With Native Apps

Abstract: With the advent of HTML5 as the new standard, web pages became an alternative to native Android and iPhone applications, what made it possible to reduce time and cost of app development and maintenance processes.This thesis is aimed for finding, analyzing and documenting experience and criteria that have weight in a selection of the technology for development of search apps. To achieve this, were developed and compared three alternative client apps (Web-based HTML5, Android and iOS).The results of the thesis provides recommendations for selection the appropriate alternative for the successful development strategy, overview of the problems which may occur during development process, pros and cons of a plain Web-based solution, a Web-hybrid solution, and native Android/iOS solutions that are evaluated for a search intensive apps.