Middle v / s Phone Browser Application Pros and Cons?

How do you rate the pros and cons between a Midlet client / server app and a phone browser ...
What are the pros and cons of both ... And based on your experience, which would you prefer to do and why?

I have listed some points based on which we can compare both, feel free to add your own ...

  • Fast development.
  • Rich user interface.
  • Soft transfer of data between client and server.
  • Ease of use.
  • portability.
  • Wide target audience of the phone.
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Here's a great blog dedicated to this exact issue. I worked with the poster and knew that he spent a significant amount of time on both sides of the fence, mobile app development and mobile website development, to have a well-formed opinion on the matter.

APPropos? Are native mobile apps supported as mobile web apps?



I've only worked on the mobile app side myself, and there really isn't anything fast or portable about the process, especially when your target platform ... they are all. However, mobile web apps will certainly not allow you to deliver the same robust feature set as a native app. This is all about trade-offs and concessions in the overall mobile space at the moment, and I think you are right about defining what is more important to your project.

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General answer: It depends. Without knowing the goal, it is difficult to propose a road to it.

What kind of application are you going to make?



What's the most important thing? Productivity or Rapid Development? What features do you need? Database, inter-client communications? Are you looking for specific user interfaces that are difficult to create on a web page? Do you need it to be portable? What devices do you want to target? And many more questions ...

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