Andre Charland and Brian LeRoux in their article discuss the
strengths and weaknesses of mobile Web app and native app
paradigms, with the aim to make a comparison between mobile
Web apps and their native counterparts [1]. Richard Padley
shows how publisher can reduce development cost, improve
time to market and deliver a cross-platform mobile app to end
users [2]. Marie-Claire Forgue and Dominique Hazaël-
Massieux state in their paper that MobiWebApp project aims to
enable European research on Web technologies to shorten the
gap between mobile Web apps and native apps [3]. Tian-gang
Xu, Wei Wang and Xia Jia in their research review the APIs of
several platforms and propose a solution to cross-platform
mobile widget development by using Mobile Widget Portable
Development Library (MWPDL) [4]. Tommi Mikkonen and
Antero Taivalsaari in their paper present the ongoing battle of
mobile native app and HTML5-based Web apps, and describe
two alternative scenarios for the future of the industry based on
the possible outcomes of the battle between the two paradigms
[5]. Our paper differs from all the explained related works
since it provide both a formal evaluation and practical
verification of the four mobile app paradigms.