In fact, websites are the "apps" -- there is no such thing as native code.

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Windows Phone 8 allows developers to run native code on the handset, Windows Phone 7.x does not.

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Instagram will not be releasing a native code version of their client for the new BlackBerry Z10 and the BB10 Operating System (reports AllThingsD).

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Perhaps the better news was that of the 30, 000 apps added in the six weeks between those announcements, the vast majority must have been running native code.

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On the contrary: some of the above shortcomings can be addressed through a hybrid app approach, in which significant parts of an app are written in Web technology, but with aspects of native code in an HTML5 wrapper.

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Performance-wise, the winner is a pre-release version of Tower Technology's TowerJ compiler, which generates a native executable from pure Java code that runs almost 25 percent faster than the fastest Java interpreter, even when the interpreter has a just-in-time compiler.

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Before the mission commenced, the SEALs had created a checklist of code words that had a Native American theme.

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Hence, cross-platform design tools that incorporate support for both HTML-5 as well as the ability to code some features in the native language have risen to fill this void.

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