Cross-platform digital publishing in HTML5: dream or reality?

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The market for tablets sees accelerated fragmentation by the growing popularity of Android, the introduction of Blackberry's Playbook and the upcoming launch of Windows 8 in late October. Consequently, publishers of newspapers or magazines can no longer focus only on iPad and iOS, but are forced by their readers to offer reading apps on these other platforms. The development of separate native front-end apps per OS is very expensive and is associated with high ongoing support and distribution costs. Cross-platform publishing technology allows to develop once and deploy across various platforms (various OS, screen size and resolutions, different user interface interactions). During this presentation we focus on the following themes: - Pros and cons of native vs. web development - The challenges of cross-platform HTML5 publishing - Hybrid applications: 'best of both worlds? - Case study: the digital edition of De Standaard on iPad and Android tablets

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HTML5  Cross-­‐platform  publishing:  dream  or  reality?  

eReading  event  -­‐  26/9/2012  

Agenda  

•  About  Twipe  •  Web  or  app?  •  Case  studies  

Newspaper  

Cross-­‐platform  Digital  Publishing  Solution  

•  Efficient  Workflow  tools  •  Rock  solid  Cloud  technology  

•  Award  winning  apps  •  HTML5  

Key  facts  

+20  publishing  apps  +500k  app  installations  +800k  publication  downloads  per  month  

+3  mio  unique  visitors  per  month  

De  Standaard  –  Tablet  Optimised  

Infographics  –  HTML5  Integration  

NRC  (NL)  –  Newspaper  Replica  

Gazet  van  Antwerpen  

Gazet  van  Antwerpen  

Agenda  

•  About  Twipe  •  Web  or  app?  •  Case  studies  

Increasing  diversity  in  tablet    devices  and  OS  

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20000  

40000  

60000  

80000  

100000  

120000  

140000  

160000  

180000  

2011   2012   2013   2016  

iOS  

Android  

MicrosoJ  

Source:  Gartner  :  Worldwide  Sales  of  Media  Tablets  to  End  Users  by  OS  (thousands  of  units)  

Windows  8:  a  game  changer?    MicrosoJ  is  very  serious  about  this    Very  large  installed  base:  1  bio  users  

worldwide    Worldwide  launch:  October  26    Focus  on  Touch  devices  

Key  Challenges  of  publishing  on  smartphones  and  tablets  

Cross-­‐Pla)orm  

Tac.le   Responsive  

OS  

Screen  Size  /  Resolu.on  

User  Interface  

App  NaPve  

Web  HTML5  

↓presentaPon  

↓navigaPon  

↓development  cost  

↓support  cost  

↑presentaPon    

↑navigaPon  

↑development  cost  

↑support  cost  

‘Best  of  both  worlds’:  hybrid  apps  

•  Native  functionality:  •  Discovery  •  Downloading  (background)  •  Navigation  •  Push  notifications  

•  Web  functionality:  •  Content  presentation  (responsive)  •  In-­‐page  navigation  

Agenda  

•  About  Twipe  •  Web  or  app?  •  Case  studies  

Twipe  Real-­‐Time  Mobile  News  Platform  Case:  dSMobile  

iPhone          Android                              Mobile  Site  

Twipe  Digital  Publishing  Platform  Case:  De  Standaard  on  Android  

Key  learnings  •  Hybrid  app  development  is  a  cost-­‐effective  

strategy  for  cross-­‐platform  publishing  

•  Combination  of  a  variety  of  competences  and  skills  is  required  (HTML5  /  Javascript,  Objective  C,  Android,  C#,…)  

•  “100%  pure”  cross-­‐platform  HTML5/JS  is  a  dream  

•  Performance  tuning  is  hard  in  native  apps;  it  is  extremely  though  in  web  apps  

•  Testing  is  a  nightmare:  due  to  the  device  and  OS  diversity,  it  impossible  to  test  every  use  case  scenario  on  every  device  

Q&A  

Contact  details:  

 Danny  Lein    Managing  Director    danny.lein@twipemobile.com  

@TwipeMobile