Here is more info on the native/web hybrid app I mentioned. Quite a few iphone apps are hybrids, developing a universal web interface but getting benefits of a native shell app for more storage, app store visibility, etc. With a Hybrid Calibre app you could potentially sync all your books to your device rather than up to 10mb in a browser tab which would be amazing.
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Hybrid apps are part native apps, part web apps. (Because of that, many people incorrectly call them “web apps”). Like native apps, they live in an app store and can take advantage of the many device features available. Like web apps, they rely on HTML being rendered in a browser, with the caveat that the browser is embedded within the app.
Often, companies build hybrid apps as wrappers for an existing web page; in that way, they hope to get a presence in the app store, without spending significant effort for developing a different app. Hybrid apps are also popular because they allow cross-platform development and thus significantly reduce development costs: that is, the same HTML code components can be reused on different mobile operating systems. Tools such as PhoneGap and Sencha Touch allow people to design and code across platforms, using the power of HTML.
Walgreens provides two very similar hybrid apps– one for Android and the other for iPhone. Both apps have multiple sections and many native features such as access to notifications and a Refill by scan feature that uses the phone camera to refill prescriptions. http://www.nngroup.com/articles/mobile-native-apps/
Example apps
http://phonegap.com/app/
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