When does it make more sense to develop a native desktop app, or an Electron-powered web UI app? We break it down for you. When we talk about a “desktop application,” we generally mean a program that ...

When does it make sense to build a desktop app with native or semi-native UI components (such as GTK or QT), or to go the web-UI route and use toolkits like Electron ...

The main drawback of the new WhatsApp is that it's a wrapped web app, which means it uses more RAM than a native application. While it's perfectly fine to use RAM — unused memory is wasted memory — ...

Overview: Mobile application frameworks assist in faster development in a team using common code.Today, cross-platform tools support more than 40% of existing m ...

OpenSilver, an open-source, WebAssembly-based reimplementation of the deprecated Microsoft Silverlight, now supports .NET MAUI Hybrid for cross-platform web and native app development. The project, ...

Office 2016 has largely unified the Exchange experience on the desktop, but native apps still do better overall on mobile clients Microsoft’s two-year-long effort to rework its Outlook applications ...

Meta has discontinued Facebook Messenger’s native desktop app for Mac and Windows, ending access to the standalone ...