Mobile development

Develop mobile apps or web apps for any kind of mobile device

Mobile development means developing applications — mobile apps or web apps — for any kind of mobile device that runs some kind of mobile operating system.

Getting started with Mobile development

30 May 2025

Tutorial

Create mobile web applications with HTML5

From geolocation, to local storage, to working offline, to the latest UI features, learn how to build mobile web apps with HTML5.

20 August 2024

Open Project

Angular

Development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages

19 August 2024

Open Project

Ansible

Create, manage, and scale automation across all environments

25 June 2024

Open Project

JSONata

JSON's key strengths are its lightweight syntax and its simple data model, which have helped propel it to the dominant payload format in RESTful web services.

09 April 2024

Article

GDPR - Minimizing application privacy risk

Part 3 of this series provides practical application development techniques that can alleviate an application''s privacy risk. These solutions include utilizing database encryption, data pseudonymization, and assuring a robust level of application security.

09 April 2024

Article

GDPR - Application privacy by design

Explore guidance designed to help you develop applications that are compliant with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.

09 April 2024

Article

A developer’s guide to the GDPR

This article is the first part of a three part series on developing applications that are compliant with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It summarizes the GDPR and explains how the privacy regulation impacts and applies to developing and supporting applications that are intended to be used by European Union citizens.

28 February 2024

Article

User interface design for the mobile web

Learn about the usability challenges of the mobile web and several best practices for designing mobile web applications.

27 February 2024

Tutorial

Developing your first Android application

Learn the basics of developing mobile Android apps using Android Studio. Learn the architecture, the standard files, and the key elements of an Android user interface.

27 February 2024

Tutorial

Reuse existing C code with the Android NDK

Learn how to create an image processing application in Java that uses C code to perform basic image processing operations.

27 February 2024

Tutorial

Build dynamic user interfaces with Android and XML

This tutorial introduces a simple architecture for designing Android applications with dynamic user interfaces that allow non-programmers to collect data from mobile users. You will create an example forms engine in this tutorial with both server and mobile sides.

20 February 2024

Article

Implementing data privacy rights with mobile apps and databases

In this article, I demonstrate a simple and low-cost approach to log and monitor user's privacy rights in a mobile application. Mobile applications have gained in popularity to simplify tasks that were previously on more complex web or other front-end systems. Clearly, user privacy issues exist in any system that collects your data, and this article's approach can be applied to any number of systems because the Cloudant database is accessible through several different languages and applications.

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Mobile development

Develop mobile apps or web apps for any kind of mobile device

Create mobile web applications with HTML5

Angular

Ansible

JSONata

GDPR - Minimizing application privacy risk

GDPR - Application privacy by design

A developer’s guide to the GDPR

User interface design for the mobile web

Developing your first Android application

Reuse existing C code with the Android NDK

Build dynamic user interfaces with Android and XML

Implementing data privacy rights with mobile apps and databases