Our group previously reported on the development of an early version of the application both as a native, compiled application, written in Objective-C, and as an HTML5-based application that would run in a browser on Android and Apple tablets [ 24, 25].
Application of a probe in a native biological context requires supporting experiments, including metal supplementation and chelation, genetic models of metal hyperaccumulation and depletion, bulk analysis of metal concentrations (e.g., XFM, Nano-SIMS, ICP), and comparative use of control dyes containing identical fluorophore scaffolds but minimal to no metal response.
However, a glaring omission in their launch is the lack of a mobile application, especially a native app tied to the GPS in many modern mobiles.
We've been working on this project that we're building on Silverlight, and at a certain point, it becomes sort of second nature to sort of in planning, think about how we can take advantage of the Silverlight platform, as opposed to thinking about it in terms of either a Web application or a native Windows application.
For those West Midlanders who pride ourselves on our intelligence and speed of humour, the simple application of our native accent gives us an immediate advantage over other people of similar intelligence, because when we say something smart, people look at us in admiring amazement, as if witnessing a chimp that can paint attractive water colours.
Following the success of their iPhone and Android applications, WhitePages will soon be announcing the upcoming availability of a native BlackBerry application.
Microsoft and Dropbox unveiled an expansion of their partnership today with the debut of a native application for Windows 10 devices.
This app was developed within the framework of a native application for Android smartphones for the evaluation of building damage after an earthquake program in order to improve evaluation of the habitability and reparability of buildings after an earthquake using an expert system of computational intelligence (Carreño et al. 2007, 2010, 2015a, b; Velasquez 2015).
We're currently smack-dab in the middle of the Web App age, with users expecting their mobile browser-based services to provide a rich visual experience closer to that of a native application than the ultra lightweight (and generally ugly), text-centric pages of yesteryear.
