Other teams have been working "in parallel" on new features for the native app, he said.
It accesses contacts and sends push notifications just as I would expect of a native app.
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The native app has four sections to search by: From, To, Subject, and All.
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The Amazon store is not a native app but it is highly responsive and well designed.
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On one hand, unlike with Facebook's native app, Home requires users to make a choice around how their phones work.
On the other hand, if your application is mainly used offline, a native app will offer a better user experience.
The significance of app downloads is this: a native app means a user can go directly to that content without searching.
But this security is illusory, since any native app can read keystrokes.
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Apple will always have the advantage as long as its the native app, but Gmail utilizes as much as iOS as it can.
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In the meantime, QuickOffice has been growing handily because it gets the App Internet any device, anywhere, anytime using a native app.
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With the iPad, iTunes and subsequently Newsstand, Apple drove native app development as a strategy by connecting access to the marketplace to developing for device.
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The native app also seemed more responsive while switching views, such as between the inbox and a particular conversation, but again they both downloaded content rather quick.
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By contrast, a native app is installed directly onto the smartphone and can work, in most cases, with no Internet connectivity, depending on the nature of the app.
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There are no URLs for remote access sites to remember, the native app gets around any browser inconsistencies, and you can give a key to less technical users.
"The iPad has fundamentally changed consumer expectations of software and media consumption so it's no surprise that our users were clamoring for a native app, " said Dropcam CEO and Co-Founder Greg Duffy.
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Compared with an HTML5 mobile app, which can be developed once and run on many different platforms, a native app approach can be significantly more expensive, since these apps must be developed platform-by-platform.
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The only native app being shown off was Skype, and there was a camera mounted on top of the demo TV, though we didn't get to actually check out video calling in action.
Rather than create a native app the BBC plans to allow a web-based version of iPlayer to be accessed via a live tile - or square icon - on the Windows Phone home screen.
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One efficiency increaser for me in the native app are the double arrows in the top right corner that appear while reading messages that let you move to the previous and following message without revisiting the inbox.
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In a letter posted to Apple's home page he had suggested that users create a web app for either Nokia or Google's maps - but a native app, such as Here Maps, should offer a superior experience.
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But given how diverse the market has grown with drugstores like CVS and Walgreens winning, small teams like the husband-wife duo behind Temple Run, and even high-end malls developing luxe apps of their own running a free scan still seems a worthwhile step for many companies getting into the native app game.
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When I first became aware of the company the native smartphone app was in development.
Remember that when iPhone shipped in 2007 it had a native Google app called Maps on it.
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What differentiates the native iOS app from the HTML5 flavor is mainly the former's iPhoto import feature.
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It would have been a website first, and a native iOS app would have followed much later.
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Native siloed app development is simply not a good model for content.
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There is a native iPhone app that works on iPad and an Android app is in the works, likely to be released this summer.
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Now, however, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is preparing to relaunch a native maps app for iOS 6.
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After a brief stretch in beta followed by some vague teasing, Firefox's native Android app update is finally set to hit Google Play.
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