1. INTRO TO MOBILE APPS 8 th period Mrs. Logan

2. WHAT IS AN APP? a self-contained program or piece of software designed to fulfill a particular purpose; an application, especially as downloaded by a user to a mobile device.

3. EXAMPLES OF APPS Twitter Facebook Instagram Snapchat Netflix Angry Birds Candy Crush Pinterest

4. TYPES OF APPS Native Web Hybrid

5. NATIVE APPS Live on the device and are accessed through icons on the device home screen. Installed through an application store (such as Google Play or Apple’s App Store). They are developed specifically for one platform, and can take full advantage of all the device features — they can use the camera, the GPS, the accelerometer, the compass, the list of contacts, and so on. They can also incorporate gestures (either standard operating-system gestures or new, app-defined gestures) Native apps can use the device’s notification system and can work offline.

6. WEB APPS Are not real applications They are really websites that, in many ways, look and feel like native applications They are run by a browser and typically written in HTML5 Example: Financial Times

7. HYBRID APPS part native apps, part web apps they live in an app store they rely on HTML being rendered in a browser Example: Walgreens