People have been developing for the web for over 20 years and, for the most part, we’ve got the hang of it. Sure, web development trends change, but the language and the nitty gritty technical side has stayed the same. But now there’s a new beast to be tamed: mobile.
When web developers start to take on mobile development, they don’t just need to learn a new language or two. It requires a mental shift, because developing for mobile is inherently different from developing for the web. Even cross-platform development, using technology like ours which relies on Javascript, familiar to many web developers, will—and should—be an entirely new enterprise.
Making the mental shift from web to mobile development is imperative to creating great apps. Designing apps as you would design for the web will result in a poor user experience. That’s a death sentence in today’s mobile marketplace, which is saturated with apps fighting for user downloads.
