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Hybrid Apps : A New Prodigy

Hybrid Apps : The New Era What are hybrid apps ? Hybrid apps are the love children of web applications and java-based applications. Web applications are constructed using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP and other web fundamental languages. These are run and operated on browsers so they are globally available on the web. On the other hand, java-based applications as the name suggest require java to construct them. These applications are stand-alone apps and may or may not require internet to work. Hybrid apps are the apps which are built using web development languages and are stand-alone applications which work like any other java based applications. If you are confused right now or curious to learn building these apps then keep reading because i am gonna list the features and the tools required to build your own simple app in less than 10 minutes. Features of Hybrid Apps Easy Languages As i told in the previous section, these apps are build using web development languages which a...

Cordova viewport problem solved

Include the viewport settings in Cordova If you are facing the auto zooming problem of cordova then go read on the full article. Cordova actually ignores the viewport meta tag which causes the pixel density problem. So we need to tell cordova that viewport tag is equally important as other tags. To do this, we need to add some code to a file which is specify in the article. Corodva messes with pixels If you are using the latest cordova version or creating the cordova app for latest android versions then you may have faced the zoom malfunctioning.I also faced it when creating an app. Many of you may have already searched the web and found the answer of changing the meta tag attributes to get it working. But adding target-densitydpi=medium-dpi does not solve the problem for latest android versions. It may work for gingerbread but not for kitkat and others. So the final solution which i found was one of the stackexchange answer but rarely found. So i am gonna two things here, i ...