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As a web developer, do you think that learning a mobile programming language (such as Java or Objective C) is important for web development?

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Question added by Amani Alasad , Web Developer , Quadron
Date Posted: 2016/01/19
Nadjib Benkhellat
by Nadjib Benkhellat , Algiers , SOFTWAREENGINEERINGMANAGER at I2B

Well, 

 

Learning the Java is always a good thing to do... a long list of reasons can be presented as proof. Concering the mobile development it's true that more and more companies and developers tend to go on the SOA Architecture based application (using web services - OData, RESTFull, WebAPI,..) so the business layer code will be hosted on the server side (many options available to pick a language for that: c#, vb, Java, javascript (NodeJS), ...). On the client side a simple browser wrapper will allow you access to most of the mobile functionnalities.... 

 

So yes it's not that important to learn native mobile application programming language to create the client side (UI on the mobile) but it's necessary to have at least an back-end developer that will be in charge of server side implementation (which person will have to master a suited language).

Muhammad Usman Zia Akram
by Muhammad Usman Zia Akram , Technical Project Lead , Dtech Systems

Yes , It is important to learn mobile programming for web developers because users need to browse and search on mobiles anywhere 

Mostafa El-Gaby
by Mostafa El-Gaby , FrontEnd Engineer , Vezeeta

no there is alternatives that can build mobile application with using web languages like HTML CSS and javaScript called hybrid mobile development

Adel Ezat Fawzy Ellozy
by Adel Ezat Fawzy Ellozy , Webdeveloper. , Saudi Arabian Maritiem Sports Federation

hi ,

i think that mobile application is more compatible with mobile than web pages .

and most people want to use mobile than computer or laptop to access the internet .

 

 

Nazim Madhani
by Nazim Madhani , Desktop Application developer/Web Developer , Saliraj Pro

Yes, It is important because at some point you will be needing these languages to make something for your client.

Fahim Morshed
by Fahim Morshed , freelancer , Upwork

In terms of web development it isn't important to know mobile programming language but it will add an advantage.

omer shahzad
by omer shahzad , System Analyst , Sahalat LLC Oman

i think it is more important now to learn mobile apps development being a web developer because people will be using their mobiles for browsing..

Naeem naeem
by Naeem naeem , Visiting Lecturer , Ghazi University

Yes, It is important because at some point you will be needing these languages to make something for your client.

Talha Muhammad
by Talha Muhammad , Senior Full Stack Software Engineer , Ministry of Justice, KSA

No it is not important. It is obvious that it depends on the requirement you are working in. If you need some knowledge like that then you may learn it. Otherwise you may focus on further web technologies.

Kanaan Khoder
by Kanaan Khoder , Web Developer , Warisan Taiba SDN.BHD

Yes

There is a big demand for this specialty nowadays.

it can be beneficial if any web developer have the knowledge of java and c .if one knows java than he can provide more security ,efficiency and can facilitate the web page with many more facilities using spring hibernate and j query but rather than that without knowing mobile application language also we can do good web development using web languages such as .net,php,wordpress.  

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