[App Bundle / AAB](atomicglue.co/glossary/app-bundle-aab) — The Android App Bundle (AAB) is Google's required publishing format that generates optimized APKs for each device configuration, reducing app size by an average of 15%.
[Capacitor](atomicglue.co/glossary/capacitor) — An open-source native runtime from the Ionic team that allows web applications to run as native mobile apps with access to device APIs.
[Cross-Platform Development](atomicglue.co/glossary/cross-platform-development) — Building a single application that runs on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, web, desktop) using one shared codebase.
[Deep Linking (Universal Links / App Links)](atomicglue.co/glossary/deep-linking) — A technique that directs users to specific content inside a mobile app from external links, instead of landing on the app's homepage.
[Flutter](atomicglue.co/glossary/flutter) — Google's open-source UI toolkit for building natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single Dart codebase.
[Hybrid App](atomicglue.co/glossary/hybrid-app) — An app built with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) that runs inside a native WebView container, combining web development speed with native deployment.
[Kotlin (Android)](atomicglue.co/glossary/kotlin-android) — Google's preferred language for Android development: a modern, concise, and safe JVM language that is fully interoperable with Java.
[Mobile App Analytics (Firebase)](atomicglue.co/glossary/mobile-app-analytics-firebase) — Tools and platforms that track user behavior, engagement, crashes, and conversions in mobile applications, with Firebase as the industry standard.
[Mobile Performance](atomicglue.co/glossary/mobile-performance) — The measurement and optimization of how fast a mobile app or website loads, renders, and responds to user interactions.
[Native App](atomicglue.co/glossary/native-app) — An application built specifically for one platform (iOS or Android) using that platform's native programming language and SDKs.
[Offline Mode](atomicglue.co/glossary/offline-mode) — The ability of an app or website to remain functional when there is no internet connection.
[Push Notifications](atomicglue.co/glossary/push-notifications) — Messages sent from a server to a user's device that appear as alerts, badges, or sounds even when the app is not open.
[React Native](atomicglue.co/glossary/react-native) — A Meta-developed framework that lets you build native iOS and Android apps using React and JavaScript, with a shared codebase and native UI rendering.
[Swift (iOS)](atomicglue.co/glossary/swift-ios) — Apple's modern, high-performance programming language for building apps across all Apple platforms: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS.
[TestFlight](atomicglue.co/glossary/testflight) — Apple's official platform for distributing beta versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS apps to testers before App Store release.